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Upload Date: April 17 2013
Scientific Name: Sphyma lewini and Chelonia Mydas
Common Name: Hammerhead Shark and green Turtle
Location: Galapagos
Diving Center: Caribbean Reef
Lens: Canon …
Jade Giada Doe Green Tourtle with remora, Chelonia mydas with Echenesis naucrates , Marsa Abu Dabbab, Marsa Alam, Egypt, Red Sea - photo by Cristian Umili . It's a wUNDERful world !
John Paul Connor Tortue verte Chelonia mydas N'Gouja Mayotte 22/09/2013 Sony DSC-TX30
Ernst Andres Beauty :-)
Diana Schwab Perfect shot, John Paul!
John Paul Connor Many thanks Diana and Ernst
El Corazón Del Océano tres chanceux mon ami :) belle photo (y)
Dany Frejaville Bonne journée mon frère de <3 bisous John... superbes tes photos c'est un bonheur de chaque jour... Une belle semaine est annoncée en Provence..
Linéa Duret Boulie l eau est vraiment bleue , magnifique
John Paul Connor Merci mon ami El Corazón Del Océano
John Paul Connor Merci Dany ma soeur de ♥ océan de bisous
John Paul Connor Merci Linéa petite soeur océan de bisous
Shane Pinder Photographer and Turtle, Night Dive, Willalaurie Wreck, Nassau
Ron Silver Green Sea Turtle, Chelonia mydas
Jeff Joel nice shot!
Mark Lessard Shane, My favorite night dive spot :) huge trumpet fish, and look for the neck crabs on the stern port side.
Shane Pinder That's right Mark - a lot of trumpetfish and there is now a good size green moray in residence but I didn't manage to get a shot of it on that dive.
Stefan Follows The Wanderer - Oft I alone must
Utter my sadness...
Green Turltle - Chelonia mydas
Andaman Sea, Thailand
G10-125-f4-iso100
Tom Hobock Stefan so very cool shot
Patrik Good Great picture. Strong artefacts around the contour of the turtle though.
Leo Tien Great
Stuart Pearce Beautiful shot :)
Stefan Follows cheers all :))
Ernst Andres <3 I love it <3
Patrik Good ...or more directly: why does the picture come with these artefacts? Stephan Follows? Anything to explain?
Stefan Follows Patrik are you trying to imply anything beyond the fact that between my watermark software and facebook jpegs tend to be lossy? If you have a better technique for compression please share.
Ian Diver Have I gone blind? What artefacts are you referring to? I'm only viewing this on a phone but it looks good to me.
Ian Diver Are you taking about the little specs that could be plankton or a little bit of a dirty sensor otherwise it's as good as any photo on Facebook
Patrik Good Sorry, can't help you. And no, I tried to imply exactly what I said, that there are massive artefacts around the contour of the turtle and that I am interested in an explanation. When you overheard what you and the administrator obviously think is a serious accusation (instead of a nowadays extremely legitimate question) I made it more clear. If you are a serious photographer you should support transparency. I am personally sick of publishing photographers (and competition winning ones too) that feel offended and defensive when confronted with an issue like that and who think it is everyone else's job to prove something they didn't even say. Cheers.
Ian Diver Artefacts is a very vague term and your comment does sound a little like you are accusing Stefan of photoshopping the turtle.
What sort of transparency do you want? This is a photo of a turtle with a few shafts of light in the background.
On this occasion you did say something accusatory or at least it reads that way to me.
Helen Peatfield Fantastic shot! Love it.
Stefan Follows Patrik lets just stick to transparency then, as you put it. I made some small adjustments in Lightroom. Nothing to fancy just the usual Blacks, Whites, Contrast etc. Then of course I made the image B&W and then made a few further adjustments as before to try and bring out the beams of light. And done. Facebook is infamous for it's poor image handling as my original JPEG is reasonably clean. The original RAW is free of artifacts of course. God bless it's cottons. I feel that I must say this group is a very friendly place. It's not a showcase for photography but rather a place for people that have a passion for the aquatic realm to communicate that passion in there own way. There are many highly competitive pages on FB for underwater photographers to showcase their work. I have posted this image on a few of those also. Maybe you would like to take your concerns to one of those and allow some of the worlds best and sharpest to have a say on what seems to be a reel concern for you. There would be a more appropriate forum than here.
Ian Diver I wish I could like that comment twice Stefan :)
Helen Peatfield See, nothing 'fishy' about this turtle.... I'll get my coat....
Patrik Good Thank you, Stefan. You did a great job then. It is an absolute disgrace that a beautiful picture is disfigured by facebook in a way it does it for me. I am stunned that I seem to be the only one seeing those borders, a blurr that looks like a thermocline around the whole contour of the turtle. And I double-checked with a few other photos and could not see that effect at all. If you had seen what I see you would probably have understood my voiced concern and would have probably clarified/investigated right away without taking offence. I checked your photo because I was interested in a photographic detail but didn't comment on it out of respect for the purpose of this group. I saw that you posted it in other groups too. I offer my apologies and am happy to leave this friendly place after I have undergone all the bashing. Have fun and keep taking pictures. @ Ian Diver: very surprising comments and differing observation but from the looks of it the mistake seems to be on my side. It may be that the accusatory tone came from being ignored while pointing out what on my screen is an obvious eye sore of a beautiful turtle with a few sun rays.
Ian Diver I might have been reading into your comments to much but your concern surprised me. I have never felt the need to investigate people's images. That's probably where we differ