first time in saltwater with new sp350

[LiteHedded]

this was my first time taking my new toy in saltwater. I was down to about 90' and it didn't flood....so I got that going for me

 

[calypsonick]

Looks like a fruitful trip. The lighting on the first moray is cool. How did you do that?

 

[LiteHedded]

Looks like a fruitful trip. The lighting on the first moray is cool. How did you do that?

I didn't
I think another diver's strobe was going off at the same time
all I have is the internal flash

 

[Tollie]

Very nice.

Were you shooting in auto mode or in manual?

 

[f3nikon]

Good work...you did a better job with only an INTERNAL flash than others have done with an EXTERNAL flash! Shooting close is the key point and you did just that, in fact the only time you picked up some backscatter is when the other diver's flash (external to you) fired into you picture.

 

[kapula]

You got some nice blues there! If you want to experiment a bit more you could try manual white balance instead of just using internal flash. Not that those pictures have very nice light.

 

[ejg62]

I didn't
I think another diver's strobe was going off at the same time
all I have is the internal flash

I noticed the same thing on the first eel shot. Nice timing. How did you synchronize your shots with the other photographer? Was it a count of three?


When shotting nature the subjects do not pose for you and as a result many of the best pictures are actually accidental (at least for me!!).

Jim G

 

[Crawl79]

The pictures are great, I have been spending hours in the last two days researching this camera, I think your good photos have just pushed me over the edge to go ahead and order the camera, now I need to decide what housing and where I will get it.

 

[LiteHedded]

I love this little camera
and I did have backscatter but i used the spot healing brush in photoshop to clean it up a bit
and I used my modes or whatever it's called
someone posted their mymode settings for macro and wide angle. turns out their macro had the shutter speed too fast (i think they have external strobes) and I got a lot of very dark pictures. some I was able to save because I shot everything in RAW. but their wide angle settings (1/125 I think) worked very well and gave me some really great images.
everyone here always says get close and then get closer so I did and it worked great. great color and no backscatter when I did that.
the shots of the green morey had the most backscatter because he was BIG and I didn't wanna lose any fingers
there's more images in my gallery from these dives btw.
and Crawl79 I use the olympus pt-030 housing for what it's worth

When shotting nature the subjects do not pose for you and as a result many of the best pictures are actually accidental (at least for me!!).

Jim G

yea I had some shots of some gorgeous fish that turned into pictures of fish butts
kind of a bummer

 

[alcina]

Wow - so much colour Great first outing!