pauldw
Contributor
I'm not an underwater photographer, just a rec diver, but I've long wondered about something. The typical photo of a reef shows gorgeous color right by the diver, since that's all lit up with strobes, and then everything further away is washed out because sunlight gets stripped out of most of its colors as it penetrates the water. Theoretically, if someone put a massive array of lights underwater, maybe something like a batch of Batman-like searchlights, or just many panels of LEDs, would it be possible to get a picture of an entire swatch of reef in color, or would the light catch everything floating in the water and just be a mess (apart from heat, scaring animals, and whatnot also being a problem)?