Help with my trim, please

[Sebs]

Ok so to parrot what everyone else has been saying. Diving with a camera and being primarily a vacation diver will lead to increased SAC. Not being in trim and moving too much will increase your SAC.

Solutions:
Dive more
Better trim (Buy your own gear? Add up how much you've spent on rental gear so far and you could have probably purchased a bpw and reg set already. This leads to more familiarity with your equipment and being more relaxed)
Breathing. My SAC went from average of 16L/min or so to 14L/min by waiting around one second after exhaling. It's not skip breathing (holding at the top of your breath) and I haven't experienced any CO2 headaches.

Honestly just dive more and if you can, spend less time on the camera.

 

[happy-diver]

Thank you all for any remarks .

Mate you look really comfortable, so keep going with everything exactly as you are

 

[Cornbread O'Malley]

I actually had fairly poor neutral buyoancy (and understanding of what neutral buyoancy means), using legs quite a lot to balance, but after watching some Flowstate videos mid this Philippines trip, I immediately fixed this, at least to a significant extent, also went from 3 kg to 2 kg weights (I am some 70 kg and fairly slim), and a few dives later moved one kg on my tank to lie flatter.

How much lead weighting do you use?

 

[Doc Harry]

I see you have a camera, and your feet are far from the reef. GOOD JOB.

I prefer a slight head down trim when I have a camera, keeps my fins away from the reef.

Your trim is perfect.

 

[Asanoth]

How much lead weighting do you use?

2 kg now, 3 kg before. I once forgot to attach 1 kg to my tank, with 1 kg only I had problems going down. I also got some other guy's BCD once by a mistake, and a few seconds later in 12 or so meters I discovered 4 extra kilos in my pockets He did not seem that much heavier than me, but his air consumption was very good even with so much weight. But he said it just sort of abruptly happened after some 80 dives, that he was average all the time and suddenly, without changing anything, he started surfacing with >100 bar.

 

[Cornbread O'Malley]

2 kg now, 3 kg before. I once forgot to attach 1 kg to my tank, with 1 kg only I had problems going down. I also got some other guy's BCD once by a mistake, and a few seconds later in 12 or so meters I discovered 4 extra kilos in my pockets He did not seem that much heavier than me, but his air consumption was very good even with so much weight. But he said it just sort of abruptly happened after some 80 dives, that he was average all the time and suddenly, without changing anything, he started surfacing with >100 bar.

2kg of weighting. You seem to have that really dialed in and most likely not overweighted. I think crofrog pointed out accurately what you could improve on: your propulsion. You can try what he suggested: heavier and stiffer fins. However, I think stiffer fins is what you need but not necessarily heavier fins. You can still find stiffer fins that are not very heavy. For example, I still use the old model of Mares Power Plana fins; they are very stiff but do not weigh much. This link shows the model of fins I have: Mares Power Plana Open Heel Fins Medium | eBay. You can try a set of fins like these, and they can be a very inexpensive part of the solution to improving your gas consumption. You can also work on different finning techniques to improve your propulsion and reduce the amount of kicking. Less body movement and more efficient kicks will help you improve your gas consumption rate.