
Eric Cheng with a Canon 1D Mark IV prototype I was able to handle a Canon 1D Mark IV body while I was at DEMA (but wasn’t allowed to take files from it). We took some photos at ISO 25,600 (using the new image-stabilized 100mm macro lens), and it was crazy clean! ...

Lightroom vs Aperture: I’ve been using Apple’s Aperture for over three years and use it to manage nearly 180,000 images. Today, I am switching to Lightroom. I really like Aperture’s interface. When...

Sperm whale with giant squid in mouth, echeng091014_0238869_c Close-up of a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, with the carcass of a giant squid in her mouth...

Update 1: October 11, 2009 We arrived in the Ogasawara Islands two days ago after enduring a typhoon in Toyko and an arduous 25.5-hour ferry ride. Ogasawara is 1000km due south of Tokyo and sits, isolated, at approximately the same latitude as Okinawa...

A gallery of images from Chichijima (the island we stayed on in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan) and of Wetpixel sperm whale expedition members, October 8-18, 2009. This gallery supplements my trip report...

A gallery of sperm whale images and underwater photography from the Wetpixel sperm whale expedition to the Ogasawara Islands, Japan during October 8-18, 2009...

15-meter male sperm whale, Ogasawara Islands, originally uploaded by echeng. We spent much of the today watching a huge (15m / 49ft) sperm whale. The crew said that it was a big male, and that male sperm whales in Ogasawara are both rare and shy...

My work @ the G2 Gallery This weekend is the last weekend of the H20 show at G2 Gallery. 14 of my prints are on display there, printed on aluminum. Check it out, if you are interested! The G2 Gallery is in Venice, California: www.theg2gallery.com

Leafcutter ants in Utría, Colombia, taken by Eric Cheng, using a Canon 5D Mark II, 1080p @ 30fps. Exposures ranged from 1/40-1/60 second @ f2.8-f3.5, ISO 1600-2500 (it was really dark under the rainforest canopy). Click through to the YouTube video to see it in HD.

Shepard Fairey recently did a portrait of Paul Watson, which will be available as a fine-art piece and screen-printed photo. It will be on display at the Sea No Evil Art Show 2009 on Saturday, August 29, 2009 in Riverside, CA...

Animal Planet film team on the bow of the Steve Irwin. Photo: Adam Lau My co-photographer Adam Lau has an article out at Sports Shooter about our trip to Antarctica to document Sea Shepherd’s anti-whaling campaign. ...

My work @ the G2 Gallery I really enjoyed hanging out at the G2 Gallery (Venice Beach, Los Angeles) last Friday at the H2O reception, which ran from 6:30-9pm. H2O is a print exhibition of underwater photography that is running from now until September 20, 2009...

I checked Google Analytics today to try to figure out why echeng.com’s traffic skyrocketed 350% on July 20. It turns out that the extra traffic was all from Brazilians! It was all because of an article posted on BBC Brasil that included some of my shark photography. ...

I spent two hours today helping a friend learn how to set up his brand-new Seacam underwater housing for the Canon 5D Mark II digital SLR. At the end, I took a timelapse video of him assembling and disassembling the housing...










