Diving with sharks and the Olympus E-PL1

[ggibson]

Nice Pics How ( what software) did you correct WB later ?

I use Lightroom for all of my editing. Some Photoshop as well, but only on certain pics to do some cloning or stitching.

 

[RadHal]

very timely, thanks Graham, nice pics. I will be spending three full days (AM and PM) diving with Stuart Cove in early May, including two shark dives and will be using my EPL3 with my new 9-18mm lens and Zen dome port. I have dual strobes, did you see other photographers using strobes? Also what shutter speeds did you end up getting with your aperture priority mode? I would think with these quick moving animals one would need pretty fast shutter speeds. Having a starting point of camera settings would be helpful, thanks. Hal

 

[KevWind]

I use Lightroom for all of my editing. Some Photoshop as well, but only on certain pics to do some cloning or stitching.

thanks i'll check it out . Kev

 

[ggibson]

very timely, thanks Graham, nice pics. I will be spending three full days (AM and PM) diving with Stuart Cove in early May, including two shark dives and will be using my EPL3 with my new 9-18mm lens and Zen dome port. I have dual strobes, did you see other photographers using strobes? Also what shutter speeds did you end up getting with your aperture priority mode? I would think with these quick moving animals one would need pretty fast shutter speeds. Having a starting point of camera settings would be helpful, thanks. Hal

I did not see any other divers with camera setups while I was diving there (we only did 3 dives, as it was a quick trip). I didn't had a strobe, and it wasn't really necessary for the shark encounter, but it would have been helpful on the other dives. I looked at some of the exposures on my shark dive and they came out around ISO200 / f4 / 1/320s or so.

If you look at the photos on flickr, you can see the exif exposure data on column to the right of the picture:

Grand Bahamas Diving 2013 - a set on Flickr

 

[RadHal]

thanks, yes I saw the settings on the Flickr page, helpful, thanks