This image, and the following nine images, were taken with a 100mm F2.8 macro lens. I set the camera on manual at Iso 800. The settings were approximately 1/60th of a second at F8. I had a Canon wireless transmitter attached to my flash mount and I held my flash of to the side to get a more interesting lighting direction and bring out the true color of the subjects.

Holding the flash off to the side also eliminates the possibility of the flash light bouncing directly back into your image! If you have to use your flash on top of your camera then make sure you shoot at an angle to the glass instead of straight on.

 

 

 

 

The close up ability of the 100mm macro made this image possible.

 

 

 

 

I took a hundred or so images of these jellyfish and only got a few "keepers". They never stopped moving and the light was too dim for my lens to autofocus so I used manual focus. I set my focus distance and then followed select jellyfish moving my lens closer or further as necessary. I followed with my flash in the other hand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taken at ISO 800 just using the ambient light in the tank.

 

 

Upon arrival the scouts had one hour to work on a "scavenger hunt" and mark off items from around the center.

 

 

There was much collaborating!

 

 

The scouts had a lesson on cephalopods and got to dissect a squid!

 

 

Serious work!

 

 

But fun too!

 

 

Very interesting...

 

 

Dissected squid!

 

 

 

 

Some of the kids played chess while the grown ups got a much needed cup of good coffee at Resurrect Art House Coffee.

 

 

Capturing Alaska

with Wayde Carroll

 

 

 

Cub Scout Overnighter at the Alaska Sealife Center

 

  Last weekend my son's cubscout pack had a sleepover at the Alaska Sealife Center in Seward. It was great fun. We showed up at 5pm on Friday evening, after they had closed to the public. The staff of the center had a full program for the boys. They had a scavenger hunt, a program on cephalopods, dinner, a program on bioluminescence, and then we all got to sleep upstairs on the floor between the birds and the sea lion! In the morning they had breakfast and then a great game of Sealife Center Jeopardy!

 I couldn't spend all the time I would have loved to taking photos but I was still able to sneak some photography in!