jimorus
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Learn your camera and controls while on land. Once you are in the water you need to know what controls are what intuitively. If you look at enough histograms and previews you will get a feel for your system and a quick look tells you you are a bit over or under and if you know where the aperture is you thumb it and shoot again rather than fumbling with 4 controls trying to find it while the whale shark is swimming away,
Cathy Church teaches you to take the shot, examine the results and adjust and shoot again.
Also don't be a Digital Reef Hog. If there are others with you let them have a chance too. Film Dinosaurs will take a bracketed series if possible and 3 of their 36 are used up and they move on. They aren't using their entire roll in the first five minutes. They may also only take 30 shots on the dive in case the cuttlefish falls in love with them on the safety stop.
With digital some folks seem to forget that everyone wants to take a shot of the sea horse and spend 15 or 20 minutes and blind the poor creature taking shot after shot after shot. Hey they have a sixteen gig card and can delete if they fill it and keep shooting, so they will shoot until their air runs out.
Very few of us will print anything beyond an 8 by 10 and it will be for ourselves so sharing is just courteous.
Didn't mean to preach, sorry.
Another thing to remember is that the difference between a good and a mediocre photographer is the size of his waste basket. The good photographer has a bigger waste basket and you will only see primo stuff. the rest is in the rubbish.
jim
Cathy Church teaches you to take the shot, examine the results and adjust and shoot again.
Also don't be a Digital Reef Hog. If there are others with you let them have a chance too. Film Dinosaurs will take a bracketed series if possible and 3 of their 36 are used up and they move on. They aren't using their entire roll in the first five minutes. They may also only take 30 shots on the dive in case the cuttlefish falls in love with them on the safety stop.
With digital some folks seem to forget that everyone wants to take a shot of the sea horse and spend 15 or 20 minutes and blind the poor creature taking shot after shot after shot. Hey they have a sixteen gig card and can delete if they fill it and keep shooting, so they will shoot until their air runs out.
Very few of us will print anything beyond an 8 by 10 and it will be for ourselves so sharing is just courteous.
Didn't mean to preach, sorry.
Another thing to remember is that the difference between a good and a mediocre photographer is the size of his waste basket. The good photographer has a bigger waste basket and you will only see primo stuff. the rest is in the rubbish.
jim
