BobArnold8265
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Hi,
I recently bought my "dream" underwater set-up. It's a C-8080, Ike Housing and Ike DS-125 strobe. I used this set-up for the first time last week in Bonaire and the results were at best mixed.
All of my images came out very blue and with little contrast. Most of the pics that I took were shot from 1 to 10 feet from the subject. The camera settings that I used were: ISO 100, Shutter Priority Mode, 1/125 shutter speed, White balance - Auto ( as suggested by Ikelite). The flash was set to TTL operation and the camera flash setting was Slow 1 (the default when using an external strobe). I played with the white balance the second half of the trip and that helped slightly but there was still a very heavy blue cast in the photos.
Straight out of the camera, the pictures were awful. With a little help from Adobe Photo Shop, I have been able to make them into some pretty decent shots but still not as good as the ones that I shot with my trusty Nikonos.
Would someone please help this digital novice ??? I've seen some great pictures taken with this set-up so I'm 100% positive there's something that I am not doing correctly. I would appreciate any and all advice. Thank you.
Bob
I recently bought my "dream" underwater set-up. It's a C-8080, Ike Housing and Ike DS-125 strobe. I used this set-up for the first time last week in Bonaire and the results were at best mixed.
All of my images came out very blue and with little contrast. Most of the pics that I took were shot from 1 to 10 feet from the subject. The camera settings that I used were: ISO 100, Shutter Priority Mode, 1/125 shutter speed, White balance - Auto ( as suggested by Ikelite). The flash was set to TTL operation and the camera flash setting was Slow 1 (the default when using an external strobe). I played with the white balance the second half of the trip and that helped slightly but there was still a very heavy blue cast in the photos.
Straight out of the camera, the pictures were awful. With a little help from Adobe Photo Shop, I have been able to make them into some pretty decent shots but still not as good as the ones that I shot with my trusty Nikonos.
Would someone please help this digital novice ??? I've seen some great pictures taken with this set-up so I'm 100% positive there's something that I am not doing correctly. I would appreciate any and all advice. Thank you.
Bob