Eric Cheng Photography
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Wetpixel.com
Location:
San Francisco, CA

Eric Cheng Photography

 
Eric Cheng Photography
Bowling Ball Beach, just south of Mendocino, CA Bowling Ball Beach is located approximately 30 miles south of Mendocino on the northern California coastline. The beach is characterized by dozens of round “bowling ball” like rocks that are visible and accessible at low tide. Bo...
Kai
Kai
Was up in Mendocino a year ago - love it. The scenery, the magnificent desolation. And it sounds like you've got great company too! Cheers to beautiful places with great people!
December 29, 2009 at 2:40am
Eric Cheng Photography
Magenta slender anthias (Luzonichthys waitei), bigeye jacks and other kinds of fish above a Gorgonian sea fan...
Colin Lee
Colin Lee
Eastern Fields looks awesome!
December 22, 2009 at 1:50am
Robyn Furnish
Robyn Furnish
Thanks for sharing, Beautiful!
December 22, 2009 at 10:35am
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Mushroom leather coral (Sarcophyton sp.) and sunball abstract. Taken in Ashmore Atoll, Australia on December 1, 2009. echeng091201_0243422
Eric Cheng Photography
Millions of anthias swarm over rebreather diver, Eastern Fields, PNG, originally uploaded by echeng. Millions of magenta slender anthias (Luzonichthys waitei) stream across the reef in strong current. Underwater photographer Tony Wu, on rebreather, is in the middle of it all...
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Skeleton shrimp on a sea fan, Eastern Fields, Papua New Guinea, originally uploaded by echeng. A skeleton shrimp (Caprella sp.) on a Gorgonian. There were tens of thousands — or more — of these guys on this particular gorgonian. Eastern Fields, Papua New Guinea. ec...
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I slept 12 hours last night and woke up to a calm day overlooking a mangrove forest in Papua New Guinea...
Tammy
Tammy
i wish i had your life. it's about 20F in NY atm.
December 11, 2009 at 4:49am
Todd
Todd
Ok I like that but in one weeks time I am off to Bonaire so I can hand your post. LOL Happy Holidays to you and your family and all the best for 2010
December 11, 2009 at 5:17am
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Real-time RGB histogram in Live View on a Canon 5D Mark II Photographer Tony Wu and I have been enjoying shooting underwater video using our Canon 5D Mark II digital SLRs...
Eric Cheng Photography
The pump is the path to a manly camera, originally uploaded by echeng. The thing in the middle belongs to underwater photographer Tony Wu.
Eric Cheng Photography
Topside view of Carl’s Ultimate, Eastern Fields, Papua New Guinea, originally uploaded by echeng. Carl’s Ultimate dive site isn’t much to look at from above the surface of the water. There is no land here, which means that it can be difficult to hide from rough weather. Car...
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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! ...
Eric Cheng Photography
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...
Dominic Yip
Dominic Yip
Is this write up available on your web site, I want to be able to search & find this next year. I am using Nikon Capture NX2 and then CS3, have not add Lightroom yet, trying to avoid adding another process until absolutely necessary ...
November 4, 2009 at 10:27pm
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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...
Kevin Michael Snyder
Kevin Michael Snyder
Were the shots in Nat Geo yours ? unbelievably cool, and rare !
November 5, 2009 at 8:26pm
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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...
Eric Cheng Photography
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...
Eric Cheng Photography
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...