Photo tips for Blackwater Drift Diving?

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would love to see your results...
Well, it was as tough as people said! But I decided ahead of time that I wasn't going to concentrate on pictures or I'd ruin the dive.

Once I got used to the dive I took out the camera. Didn't use flash, just a high powered light. Biggest difficulties:

Please note that I was using a point and shoot (TG5) and one strobe. I decided to 86 the strobe and use my powerful dive light.

DIFFICULTIES:

1.) autofocus. I could have put it on manual, but I don't think I could have nailed any shots.

2.) any movement whatsoever and the water movement you just made will blow the little thing out of frame.

Out of about 20-25 pics, I got one sharp and one "sharp enough".
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Its always the women who figure it out.
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Bill
 
very nice start.....
 
Not bad at all. Next time you might want to try using the TG-5's focus bracketing feature. It works very well and should be useful under these conditions.
 
Not bad at all. Next time you might want to try using the TG-5's focus bracketing feature. It works very well and should be useful under these conditions.
I didn't know there *was* a bracketing feature! I will absolutely do that!
 
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