O'Malley
Contributor
again, no strobe!
OK, we just returned from Turks & Caicos (Provo) this past weekend where I decided to dive my Canon A620 the first day while getting aquainted with Caicos Adventures' procedures. I was shooting at 10-15' when my Ikelite DS125 (w/ EV manual controller) began to fire in rapid succession. I immediately powered down the strobe but that was all she wrote, the strobe would no longer power up yet the modeling light continued to work. I suspect the manual controller was sensing the sun's reflection at this shallow depth, triggering the strobe to fire repeatedly...just a guess, however. I did speak w/ Ikelite yesterday and they, too, were perplexed...the strobe had just been repaired a month earlier after experiencing this identical problem while in Cayman Brac in July.
Well, I did take my Nikon D80 w/ an 18-55mm lens and the Ikelite housing on all subsequent dives and not having the strobe certainly forced my hand a bit more quickly at learning the manual settings and thier application given the conditions. I found it difficult to manually set the white balance but I suspect not having a light source had something to do with the camera not being able to evaluate the subject/object.
I attempted to edit the photos with Capture NX software but they're awfully blue, I decided to pass on shooting RAW this trip. But here are a few of my keepers. The topside shots, however, came out nice...
OK, we just returned from Turks & Caicos (Provo) this past weekend where I decided to dive my Canon A620 the first day while getting aquainted with Caicos Adventures' procedures. I was shooting at 10-15' when my Ikelite DS125 (w/ EV manual controller) began to fire in rapid succession. I immediately powered down the strobe but that was all she wrote, the strobe would no longer power up yet the modeling light continued to work. I suspect the manual controller was sensing the sun's reflection at this shallow depth, triggering the strobe to fire repeatedly...just a guess, however. I did speak w/ Ikelite yesterday and they, too, were perplexed...the strobe had just been repaired a month earlier after experiencing this identical problem while in Cayman Brac in July.
Well, I did take my Nikon D80 w/ an 18-55mm lens and the Ikelite housing on all subsequent dives and not having the strobe certainly forced my hand a bit more quickly at learning the manual settings and thier application given the conditions. I found it difficult to manually set the white balance but I suspect not having a light source had something to do with the camera not being able to evaluate the subject/object.
I attempted to edit the photos with Capture NX software but they're awfully blue, I decided to pass on shooting RAW this trip. But here are a few of my keepers. The topside shots, however, came out nice...
