irish underwater shots

hellfireie

hi gang heres a few of my underwater shots from the past few dive sessions






















let me know what you think !!

BJC

Very nice, especially underwater Bert Where were you for these?

Lobster

Very Cool, where?

hellfireie

all taken by me in waterford ( tramore , ballymacaw ,dunmore ) fancy a few more ???

BJC

Oh..go on then! Spoil us!

Lobster

Go on....... what camera did you use?

hellfireie

gentlemen you wish is my command !!

Rowley Birkin QC

So this isnt the Irish underwear shots thread then??

Cool pics all the same, new avenue of boards for me to loiter on.

hellfireie

nah mate think u got the wrong forum ! lol few more underwater shots anyone ? come on im showing off now ! lol

APM

absolutely awesome pictures. Really inspires me to some day learn to scuba-dive.

Thanks for sharing them

ant

hellfireie

cheers mate , you should try your hand at snorkeling , you'd get a mask and snorkel for 30 quid . my best advice is to keep it shallow ,yuo will see alot more and feel abit more safe till you get into it . could do a try a dive on hoildays or local PADI centre

Pigeon Reaper

great shots. I can never get ones like those underwater. Did you use a macro lens for some of them?

hellfireie

no i didnt use a macro len i normally leave the camera on its macro setting . i just get up close and personal !

i like the small stuff its great to see a nudibranch try and get its picture , they might be small but there beautful creature , have good few blue water pics but there no place like home for me . too of the diver mags with the same old same warm water stuff , i thinks its about time we seen some good pictures from our own waters and get more people back into irish waters , im a memebr of a CFT club and the drop outs are amazing , its a pitty becasue most dont get to see whats really down there and i think our coast is amazing

lets see some your picture guys !

any chance we could get a competition going on here ( friendly) spark some interested and maybe a few new dive buddys , what do think ?

cheers
jamie

Slig

Those are fantastic pics and brilliant quality with very little sediment, I keep telling people that Irish waters are every bit as colourful and busy as those that you see on David Attenborough program but they dont believe me. These pics prove my point.
These are the sort of pics I'd love to print our and hang in a picture frame in my hall (especially the hermit crabs!!)

murrayp4

Lovely pics. Especially the blenny!

What was the 5th photo in the OP?

ColinJennings

It is a bert toy. As in bert and ernie.

hellfireie

yeah its from bert and ernie, i named the photo ' dont eat ernie'. im not which is bert and which is ernie but dont eat ernie sounds better dont you think !

i took that photo where alot of people go swiming so there all kinds of crap on the sea bed, the poor anemone must have thought it had found its lunch !

have a few more pics i'd like to share , so i'll stick them up let me know what you think .

hey slig , you spot on i think the irish waters are every bit as good if not better then all these far flung places and i think my pictures are proof of that (not to blow my own trumpet or anything!). i know we will never get 50 meters vis but hey you never know !

cheers guys for all the feedback

jamie

Sabre Man

Excellent pictures. Are you a professional photographer?

If you've got more I'd like to see them.

Slig

Me too, those are fantastic

hellfireie

heres a few from the red sea taken on a liveaboard which sunk very shortly after i was on it , i dont think it had anything to do with me!!!

hellfireie

sorry guys im not sure how to resize them !

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hellfireie

i ownly do it as a hobby but one day it would be great to do it for discovery channel or something like that ! but we all have that dream! i'll put up a few more irish one for you lot to take a look at .

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name that light house anyone ?????? nice few shots there now guys hope you like them . comments always welcome !!!!!!

cheers
jamie

robertpatterson

Baltimore? no?:o

JohnCleary

Fish looks angry in 2nd pic - Did you wake him up from his sleep?

JohnCleary

hellfireie wrote: »

name that light house anyone ?????? nice few shots there now guys hope you like them . comments always welcome !!!!!!

cheers
jamie

Fastnet

Always wanted to land on it i've seen it in so many pics before. Only time I was ever down there in real life was when I was test driving a RIB off the Baltimore shores. Nice place

hellfireie

yeah s baltimore co cork and we got to get on to fastnet light house it was great , the weather was amazing .

albertw

Fantastic photos! The best I can offer are a couple taken on the GBR. Underwater photography is a lot harder than it looks! No Irish pics unfortunately as I don't have a waterproof housing for my camera.

amyloneill

class!!!!!!

nocal

Love the pics - they are fantastic.

Can you share with us all what camera and housing you were using?

amyloneill

nikon coolpix 3200 is what hellfireie uses

wills56

Great shots hellfireie, what type camera did you use?
Was there an external flash?
What format did you use (jpeg/RAW)?
Did you make any tweks afterwards, or did you upload as is?
wills56