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[The Old Ruminator]

My old mate Pete Rose in the dig yesterday. " Bye. I am off to the pub ".


PB190013 by Nicholas Chipchase, on Flickr

PB190007 by Nicholas Chipchase, on Flickr

 

[The Old Ruminator]

The second image is called " Pop Goes The Weasel ". I am not allowed to elucidate further.

 

[chunky]

From yesterdays trip in to Pendulum Passage. Ogof Ffynnon Ddu

 

[Judi Durber]

One of the current owners of Singing River Mine, on her first caving trip, went into her mine.

House ( & therefore mine entrance) due to change hands mid December.

 

[TheBitterEnd]

Mobile phone snap

 

[Fulk]

Nice picture, BE . . . . I guess it's Dolly Tubs looking out to Alum Pot?

 

[TheBitterEnd]

Nice picture, BE . . . . I guess it's Dolly Tubs looking out to Alum Pot?

That's the one, Alec "on-sight" rigging, he's never done the alternative before.

 

[chunky]

The Dudley Caving Club Christmas Trip.

I'm pretty sure we must have been bad this year to get the Aggy trip Santa gave us.
A lot of fun with a great bunch of people, but Coal Cellar passage was brutal....perhaps a few less mince pies next time!  :chair:

 

[first-ade]

With a brand new Olympus TG-6 to play with, a couple of semi-willing mugs, and a trip down Notts 2, I'm quite happy with how these turned out! The first was taken handheld in the handheld starlight mode, the main light source being a Fenix HL-55 off to the right of the camera, and back lit by a Fenix HP-12. In post, I've just increased the exposure compensation slightly and cropped it. The second shot was also handheld in the super close-up mode and zoomed in to the max, side lit with a Fenix HP-65R. In post I've just increased the local contrast slightly to make it stand out from the background a bit more. I'm very impressed by how easy it was to get decent images out of this camera without putting in too much effort.

 

[christine]

So, the plan was to head somewhere warm, clear and shallow and spend hours and hours learning how top use my DSLR and Ikelite underwater housing, pus 3 strobes and two video lights.

I got variable results, a dead strobe and a dead video light! 

I'm on a steep, expensive and VERY frustrating learning curve.
If you think cave photography is hard, all I can tell you is don't even think about trying it underwater!

These are the best I could do on our recent pre-Xmas holiday to the Yucatan.

I'd love to know which one you prefer (1,2 or 3?)

For the blog report: https://www.wetwelliescaving.com/post/magical-mexico

    1: Cenote Minotauro

Mexico 2019 by Christine Grosart, on Flickr


    2: Cenote Nahoch


Mexico 2019 by Christine Grosart, on Flickr


    3: Cenote Regina

Mexico 2019. Images: Copyright Christine Grosart by Christine Grosart, on Flickr

 

[Oscar D]

All three are cracking photos 

Although I think that the third one is my favourite, love the lighting and the stals in the foreground.

 

[Roger W]

As said above, some cracking photos !

I like no. 2 with the bubbles.

Keep them coming!

 

[christine]

Thank you guys  :-[

Always interesting to hear other people's perspectives.

The first image is probably the most technically correct (and maybe the least interesting?). It needed much less post processing work than the others.

No 2 is marmite. Some folk hate bubbles anywhere in the shot - some love them (so long as they are not all over the divers face, coming out of his arse etc). Personally I love the bubbles especially if they are backlit and sparkly and well timed. Rich is very good at synching his breathing to my strobe cycles  :ang:

Someone pointed out that the diver should have been next to the formations looking at them, rather than in front. Bit late now...

No 3 was taken with the help of an excellent cave photographer called Marissa Eckert (Hidden Worlds Diving, check out her images on FB). Her partner dutifully runs around placing strobes all over the cave so I took full advantage of the extra light.

Unfortunately you can see them all in the image! Even photoshop can't fix that 

Not that great a composure and James wasn't meant to be in the image!

I'm hoping to put a set together for Hidden Earth and not sure if these are good enough.

Shame.

Will have to go back...

 

[christine]

Just came across this image of the same place as my photo no.3 in Regina.

This one is taken by another lady photographer, Korean Su Eun Kim. She drags her husband all over the world taking cave photos.
She's about 4 feet high, wears a rebreather that weighs more than her and she is seriously talented.
She throws A LOT of light at her images and I suspect her camera and lenses are not cheap either.
Anyway, a different perspectoive of the same spot.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10162952141125224&set=pcb.10162952142385224&type=3&theater

 

[Martin Wright]

I think I would go for number 3. Incidentally, I prefer your number 3 to the Korean photographer's picture of the same place. The divers are in sharper focus, I like the stal in the foreground which has kept its true colour and not been burned out, and the picture somehow captures the three-dimensional aspect of that particular dive with the depth behind the divers. All nice shots, though.

One minor point - shouldn't the caption for number 2 be "Nohoch" rather than "Nahoch" if, as I suspect, it is from Nohoch Nah Chich?

 

[christine]

One minor point - shouldn't the caption for number 2 be "Nohoch" rather than "Nahoch" if, as I suspect, it is from Nohoch Nah Chich?

Very probably. Most of the dives blurred into one and the spellings of most places were variable. We didn't go in the usual 'touristy' entrance but I suspect your spelling is correct.

We dived a cenote called Aktun Ha which is also known as Regina...
Tomato Tomato....

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Apprentice in training.

P1140005 by Nicholas Chipchase, on Flickr

Youth and Age.

P1140038 by Nicholas Chipchase, on Flickr

If it aint fun. It aint worth doing.

 

[DaveWatts]

The famous Manor farm curtain, taken last week on Mendip

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Thanks for posting Dave. I must admit that I was very angry when I saw your photo. The damage to this wonderful curtain is inexcusable. Here is mine taken at the time of the curtain's discovery. Can folk see a difference ?

manor farm by Nicholas Chipchase, on Flickr

 

[JasonC]

Can folk see a difference ?

Yes indeed

... but not having been to Manor Farm for over 40 years, what about the difference in colour?  Is it solely due to the lighting used for the photos, or has it changed from snowy white over that time?