Information for Rehabilitators and Volunteering BP Oil Spill
Information for Rehabilitators and Volunteering The FWC is working with NOAA and the U.S. Coast Guard and taking direction in Florida from the lead response agency, the Department of Environmental Protection, regarding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research, along with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is overseeing the wildlife rehabilitation response along the Gulf coast, but the FWC is receiving many questions about how people can help wildlife that may become oiled. Anyone interested in efforts to rehabilitate oiled wildlife may register online at www.DeepwaterHorizonResponse.com or call 866-448-5816. To report oiled wildlife, call 866-557-1401. … Read entire article »
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Florida Update information of BP Oil Spill
Fishing advisory issued for Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walto counties Shoreline fishing license is free to residents, beginning July 1 If you plan to volunteer for the clean-up you will need to contact the volunteer hotline phone numbers: ttp://www.myfwc.com/OilSpill/index.htm. Daily updates on Pensacola Beach can be found on their webpage: http://www.visitpensacolabeach.com/ (Notice the link to sign up for daily oil spill updates from Escambia County). … Read entire article »
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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
I am interested in reading posts on divetalking.com from folks living in the areas affected and currently experiencing the BP Oil Spill. Please update this site with your experiences and observations of any areas touched by oil. Watch Live Video of the BP Oil Catastrophe. … Read entire article »
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Tritonshall
divetalking and tritonshall have traded links. Visit tritonshall for articles related to the field of diving and all things related. … Read entire article »
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Diving Memorial Weekend, 2010
I will be heading to Ginnie Springs Memorial weekend, May 31, 2010. My plans are to just relax. Dive when I feel like diving. I plan on filming to get use to the new camera, housing and lights. I believe the place may be packed with tubers. It’s too early to tell what the weather will be like that three day weekend. We can only hope for SUNNY days. I also plan on camping one night, Saturday night. Arrive at 9AM Saturday, depart when ever Sunday. Who knows, maybe I’ll spend two nights. I sure hope it’s not too hot at night. I wonder if I should carry a fan. There is electricity and water at each camp site. I’ll let you know how it turns out after the memorial weekend is … Read entire article »
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Videography Tips and Techniques
Issue 1 Tip 5 Editing So you purchased all the fancy camera stuff and you’ve taken some video and you’re watching it looking at all the horrible things gone wrong. It’s Blairwitch all over again. OK, good thing you purchased editing software. Maybe you can edit out the good shots and throw away all the other junk. So which editing software should you buy? Well, that’s all personal preference of course. Software cost money. For example if you want to use Apples Final Cut Pro, you’ll need an Apple Computer. You can buy, like I did, software from the manufacture of your camera. My HD Video Camera is a Sony HDR-HC9 so I chose to buy Sony Vegas Pro 64bit on Windows 7. I also purchased … Read entire article »
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Videography Tips and Techniques
Issue 1 Tip 4 Housing and Lighting Lighting is important. Everyone in the industry knows this. You can have the most fantastic camera and housing but without lighting, you can not get the video to look colorful. Videos come out dark in nature with very little color if any at all, depending on depth, sea conditions, etc. So what type of lights should you buy? What features do lights come with? How much will they cost? These and other questions are good questions and the only way to find out is to try. Renting is an option. Rent until you find what you like, then buy. There are a number of places that rent video equipment. It may be a little pricey, but a lot less pricey than purchasing new. I purchased … Read entire article »
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Videography Tips and Techniques
Issue 1 Tip 3 White Balance White balancing is calibrating your video camera to capture color as accurately as possible. The idea is you tell the camera which color it sees is actually white, letting the electronics adjust everything else using white as the base. We’ve all seen video that have not been properly white balanced. Example is shooting outdoors, then walk indoors, the video may appear reddish/orange. If filming inside, walking outside may make the picture appear bluish or when videoing underwater and the video appears bluish. Almost monotone in color. The color temperature of sunlight is higher than incandescent light, which has a low color temperature. That’s why sunlight looks whiter, bluish than indoor lighting which looks yellow/orangish. When you walked outside with the video camera, the camera was adjusted for … Read entire article »
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Videography tips and Techniques
Issue 1 Tip 2 Color Where to start… Physics! Understanding refraction and absorption. The light spectrum from Red to Violet. When entering the water column, you will notice one of the first colors to disappear is red. Red or green/blue are common filter colors to compensate for the loss of a spectrum of colors lost by water absorbing the wavelength of that color. For example, if looking through the lens with a red filter, from 5 feet of depth things will appear reddish. Continue down the water column and that red you see begins to disappear and the objects begin to appear more natural in color. Red or something close to red is a very common filter. Looking at the graph on the right ->> you see at around 15 feet, you begin … Read entire article »
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Videography tips and Techniques
Issue 1 Tip 1 Panning Getting the shot. When I am looking for/at something to video I try to see it in my mind as a movie that is playing. I try to envision how the video will appear to the viewer. This allows me to frame the shot in ways that will hopefully, through editing provide the wow effect. For example: While looking upwards, pan a school of fish at the same pace the fish are swimming. If they are swimming towards you, even better. While panning with the fish, use a zoom in or zoom out near the end of the pan to add that period to the effect and as a aide in fading into the next scene during editing. Here is an example: [xr_video id=”bd0dc0594d164cba9c5e83084ae95d09″ size=”sm”] … Read entire article »
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Videography tips and Techniques
Issue 1 May 18, 2010 This is my first post on underwater videography tips and techniques. I will post my experiences and observations while filming under water. I hope the notes will serve me in the future as a reminder of things to do while filming as well as serve as a reference for those introduced to the idea of making underwater films, documentaries. I will document my observations and experiences of what it takes to make great underwater video. Areas I would like to cover are: goals and objectives, equipment, configurations, lighting, cameras types and features, housings, buoyancy, gas management, angles, color, white balance, timing, framing, editing and more. Stop by to read the updates of becoming a great underwater videographer. … Read entire article »
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Red IMAX Camera
Here is what I would like to own next: RED Red’s Epic Red Cameras I know there is someone out there that would donate a couple of these cameras along with the Underwater Housings for the RED ONE (Gates) to help me get out in the ocean and begin documenting with the best resolution as possible, that would be tremendously helpful. Cost would average for both cameras, accessories and housings about $200,000. … Read entire article »
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ScubaExtreme 2nd Annual Sexy Scuba Calendar Event
2010 is the second year for ScubaExtremes Sexy Scuba Calendar event. Saturday, February 20, 2010 the ScubaExtreme Team, models and friends met at the shop for a day of meeting and greeting the calendar girls. The day was wonderful and the models are fantastic. Visit the ScubaExtreme website for future events at www.scubaextremellc.com [xr_video id=”cf605494a71c4fd3a6f55781a4635aa3″ size=”sm”] … Read entire article »
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2010’s Crystal River with the Manatees
This was a second trip for me with ScubaExtreme’s annual Crystal River, Manatees trip. Here is a small video of that day. [xr_video id=”7928ea4883a64792a2fcdd568deb2083″ size=”sm”] Larry Davis … Read entire article »
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2010’s Rainbow River Drift
This was the second year I attended the ScubaExtremes annual Rainbow River drift dive. though it rained, I didn’t mind getting wet before the dive. here is a small clip of that days event. [xr_video id=”2d1ea6e3f20344e3bc1340f86de502f4″ size=”sm”] Larry Davis … Read entire article »
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Mona Passage, PR Dec. 26, 2009 – Jan 2, 2010
This trip was an interesting trip. It started on Saturday December 26, 2009. The flight into San Juan, Puerto Rico was uneventful and quite fast. The weather into PR that day was around 80 degrees and the sun was shining. I have about a 5 hour wait for the shuttle to Mayaguez, a three hour ride. One van, my van and the van carrying all the dive gear left the airport at around 6pm for our first stop, the grocery store. There I search for super glue. See, while waiting at the airport, I put my new video camera into the housing to find the housing doesn’t quite work with this new camera. I discover I am only able to turn the camera on/off. No zoom, no macro, no other controls may be reached using the housing mechanism to press the neccessary … Read entire article »
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