by Alex Ribeiro
The day started early – around 2:00 AM when we woke up and got ready for a 6 km walk up to sector 14 – where the Juna Akhara was camped and where the Naga Sadhu procession would start.
Categories: Others, Travel • Tags: allahabad, baba, darsham, ganges, guru, hinduism, Holy dip, kumbh, kumbh mela, Naga sadhu, pilgrimaje, pragraiaj, procession, Royal Bath, sadhu, sadhwi, Shahi Snan, Swami Anand Giri, Swami Avdheshanand Giri
by Alex Ribeiro
So you have a DSLr camera and an “all rounder” kit lens. You get a housing for it and start shooting underwater. After some dives, you feel comfortable with your rig and want to improve your macro results by buying a true macro lens. That’s when you start wondering: which focal distance makes more sense, for a macro lens? 40mm, 60mm, 85mm or 100/105mm ? I’m a Nikon user and been shooting underwater with D7100, D7200 and lately with D810. I personally […]
Categories: Others, Underwater • Tags: cropped sensor, Diopter, Dslr, elabcreative, Elabcreativeteam, full frame, Indonesia, Indopacific, macro, macro lens, nauticam, Nauticam smc-1, Nauticam SMC-2, Nauticambali, nikon, nikonindonesia, supermacro, underwater macro photography
by Alex Ribeiro
In fact, cock fighting is a “multi-million dollar business”, with events happening periodically in every small villages, daily in the major cities, and yearly on Balinese Hindu ceremonies. Business man bet hundreds of dollars in each fight and roosters are illegally imported from Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.
Categories: Others • Tags: bali, blood sport, cockfighting, Indonesia, Karangasem, Traditional Indonesia, traditional sports, tulamben
by Alex Ribeiro
After a few hours, it’s all over and horseman begin to arrive at the beach for the Passola – a staged war between clans on which one tries to make the other one retreat by trowing spears – now, just wooden sticks but not long ago, they had sharp metal points. It was believed that shedding blood during the Passola was honourable and auspicious.
Categories: Travel • Tags: Horseriding, Indonesian festival, Nikon 300, Nikon D850, nikonindonesia, Nyale, Passola, RUNNING THE PASSOLA, Sumba, Sumba Island, Traditional Indonesia, Travel Photograpy
by Alex Ribeiro
Are these torches capable of helping to shoot a professional quality underwater video (or photos)? On which ways (if any) could I integrate them on my workflow? These are the answers that I was seeking for the last weeks and which I’m answering next.
Categories: Others, Underwater • Tags: divepro, hida.tech, jaunt, product review, ttlight, underwater light, underwater torch, underwater video, underwater videography, vision pro +
by Alex Ribeiro
Following me debut as Jaunt / Divepro ambassador, I wanted to show how their Divepro Vision Pro + torch would behave on a macro situation.This video was shot with Nikon D810 on Nauticam housing, along with Nikon 60 AF-S Micro F2.8 G-ED. Shot at 30 fps, full HD, F/13 to 16, 1/60, ISO between 450 and 1000. Auto White Balance and flat profile. Slightly colour graded (and desaturated) in FCPX. Focusing was an issue. One need to prefocus before shooting […]
Categories: Others
by Alex Ribeiro
My girlfriend wanted to buy a camera to start doing underwater photography. She knows almost nothing about photography, and asked me for recommendations. On looking at some friends’ rigs and results, I told her to buy Olympus TG-5 and a housing. It’s one of the cheapest options available so she won’t waste too much money if later decides to quit.
Categories: Others, Underwater • Tags: AOI-uw, aoiuw, AOIuw_photographic_products, dive bali, dive tulamben, divesea, divesea_indonesia, marine pixels, olympus tg-5, seafrogs, tulamben, underwater macro photography, underwater photography, underwater video, underwater videography, wet dome, wet lens
