browncd81
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Just wondering what boneheaded mistakes we always make even though we know better, whether due to forgetfulness, bad habit, etc.
I decided to post this here rather than the tips and techniques board since some of the discussions may pertain specifically to Canon setups.
For me, I shoot an S90 with FIX housing and mostly the UWL-04. My boneheaded error #1 is usually having the pictures exposed too dark. Usually I set the shutter speed and aperture when in shallower water at the beginning of the dive, and lock in. When I'm on top of my game, I'll turn off the flash which lets the LCD show the water background and I expose to that. Then I turn the flash back on before shooting. Hopefully a lot of my dark images are correctible in Photoshop - that's actually my big project now is to learn the software.
Boneheaded error #2 is forgetting to set the camera to Macro mode when shooting wide angle.
Otherwise, I'm pretty good with battery management, greasing the rings and preventing flooding, maintaining the camera/housing/strobes, traveling with it safely, and especially not letting my photography interfere with safe diving or causing me to strike the reef or fall behind the group
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Look forward to hearing everyone elses
I decided to post this here rather than the tips and techniques board since some of the discussions may pertain specifically to Canon setups.
For me, I shoot an S90 with FIX housing and mostly the UWL-04. My boneheaded error #1 is usually having the pictures exposed too dark. Usually I set the shutter speed and aperture when in shallower water at the beginning of the dive, and lock in. When I'm on top of my game, I'll turn off the flash which lets the LCD show the water background and I expose to that. Then I turn the flash back on before shooting. Hopefully a lot of my dark images are correctible in Photoshop - that's actually my big project now is to learn the software.
Boneheaded error #2 is forgetting to set the camera to Macro mode when shooting wide angle.
Otherwise, I'm pretty good with battery management, greasing the rings and preventing flooding, maintaining the camera/housing/strobes, traveling with it safely, and especially not letting my photography interfere with safe diving or causing me to strike the reef or fall behind the group
.Look forward to hearing everyone elses
