hi Matt
great pictures - I dream of going to Malpelo next year, but this is fabulous; a danger on this site is that photography comes before diving; your slides show how to do both.
take care
kjeld
Hi Eric
I believe november is a great time for longimanus and would advice you to go 'Brothers' . At that time there isn't to many people around 3-4 boats at the time.
I have done this Brothers/daedalius/Elphinestone cruise and had several close en…
Hi Kjeld,
Yes we go diving with bull sharks here in Playa del Carmen. In the last 2 years we discovered, that in between December & the end of febuary, we have a huge `migration' of bull sharks. There is one area, where you get always several animals cruising. Some days you see 3-4 & on good days up to 15. Depth is about 20-25metres in pure sandy bottom. Just perfect for filming or photo. The problem this years is, that it got very popular & many dive centers organize shark dives, some do feeding...it's getting out of hand, because there is absolutly no control. We are a group of divers here, who start to see the problems and we need to do something, before it`s really getting of hand. For the safety of the sharks! if you want to know more, let me know.
Greetings from Playa, tomorrow i'll go filming them again. sandra.
In Guadalupe? No!!! I really wanna travel around all Baja California, but I haven't done yet, I love seals, marine elephants and sharks so, yeah I really wanna go there, I hope I can do it soon :-( specially for the seals, they're so lovable ! lol
Thanks for the compliments! Yes, for most of the shots in my gallery the water was pretty clear, but the bigger "secret" is to use a really wide angle lens (e.g., 15mm fisheye) and get REALLY close (within a foot or less) to reduce the amount of water between you and the subject. Almost all of my shark shots are from the Bahamas, and all were shot with wide lenses at close range. (The one of the tiger shark's gaping mouth were taken while she was actually "mouthing" my dome port curiously...you can't get much closer than that!!) ;-)
For the standard Nikkor 18-105 you need a +4 (we shot these pics with the same lens) and for the Tokina 11-16, a +2 helps to have sharp edges (but it's not really necessary).
Kindest regards,
Katrien & Jan