Underneath The Busselton Jetty

[Karl]

The Busselton Jetty is located in Geographe Bay at the town of Busselton, Western Australia. It is the longest jetty in the southern hemisphere at 1.8km in lenght. It is over a 100 years old and in the last 40 years suffered major damage from a fire and cyclone so the Govt injected some funds to rebuild it.

Prior to the rebuild it was an iconic dive site and with the rebuild finished about 12 months ago I finally had a chance to dive it.

Unfortunately a lot of the old growth corals, sponges etc were destroyed in the rebuild - some pylons with old growth were left - but there are signs that the regrowth has started but it will be sometime before it is back to it's old glory.

All images taken with the Oly OMD EM-5 and 12 -50mm lens and for the macro shots a +3 macro wet lens was added.

A Batfish




Old growth Tolestoro Coral


A juvenile Dhufish


A Western Talma Butteryfly Fish

[Karl]

Second lot (hopefully I haven't bored anyone).

Western Australian Chromodoris Nudibranch


'Strawberry & Cream' Nudibranch


Big Eyes and pylons


Leatherjacket


Puffer Fish

[AndyB1975]

Nice. I bet it was very interesting to dive this site. I kept expecting to see Nemo and Dora

What do you use for lighting underwater?

[kdoc856]

Truly lovely. Can't imagine ever getting bored with them.

[ktuli]

Karl,

In almost all of these shots, I'm feeling like the strobe angle is too low. It looks like the bottom of the frame is over-exposed while the top of the frame is under-exposed.

Very nice set though.

- Bill

[Karl]

Nice. I bet it was very interesting to dive this site. I kept expecting to see Nemo and Dora

What do you use for lighting underwater?

I use twin Sea & Sea YS 110A strobes for the lighting - I manually set them (no TTL) to get the effect I am after.

Karl

[Karl]

Karl,

In almost all of these shots, I'm feeling like the strobe angle is too low. It looks like the bottom of the frame is over-exposed while the top of the frame is under-exposed.

Very nice set though.

- Bill

Quiet possible - I normally shoot macro with snoots on the front of the strobes which require different positioning and this was the first time I had a decent opportunity to do some wide angle stuff.

With the first Batfish shot this is certainly the case but this was a totally unplanned shot as I turned around and he was there so I just fired of the shot and I hadn't even properly tested the position of the strobes etc.

Heading back to Tulamben, Bali in Sept and looking forward to more wide angle stuff when I get there.

Karl

[Karl]

Karl,

In almost all of these shots, I'm feeling like the strobe angle is too low. It looks like the bottom of the frame is over-exposed while the top of the frame is under-exposed.

Very nice set though.

- Bill

Quiet possible - I normally shoot macro with snoots on the front of the strobes which require different positioning and this was the first time I had a decent opportunity to do some wide angle stuff.

With the first Batfish shot this is certainly the case but this was a totally unplanned shot as I turned around and he was there so I just fired of the shot and I hadn't even properly tested the position of the strobes etc.

Heading back to Tulamben, Bali in Sept and looking forward to more wide angle stuff when I get there.

Karl