Buadhai
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After decades of diving this was my first effort at underwater photography. I hope to get better. This was a day trip on the Similan Queen with dives at Bida Nok, Koh Phi Phi Lay (Palong Wall) and Shark Point.
Phuket Day Trip April 2011
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What camera are you using? What settings?
My favorite is the moray with the cleaner wrasses. And the anemone with its resident fish is cute.
My favorite is the moray with the cleaner wrasses. And the anemone with its resident fish is cute.
Different photographers have different objectives. Some toss every photo of a fish shot from behind into the trash bin (I admit that I'm one of these) while others want a shot of everything they see. I've got one diver who is a secondary school science teacher, and he loves to catalog all the different species he's seen. It's hard to do by memory, so he snaps shots all through the dives. Fish tail photos very often give him enough information to meet his objective. I've got several divers who spend a lot of time to get the shot just right in terms of lighting and composition, shooting multiple images of the same subject. Pictures of fish tails don't meet their objectives for technical precision. I've got another diver who takes pictures to show his young son so that the boy can sort of dive vicariously until he's old enough to become a real dive buddy. Technical perfection isn't important to him, nor documenting everything, but he does like color, color, color!
If you're happy with your pictures, then keep doing things the way you're now doing them! They're your shots after all, nobody else's.
If you're happy with your pictures, then keep doing things the way you're now doing them! They're your shots after all, nobody else's.
I have to admit that I never would have bothered with a camera but for the urging of family and friends who wanted to know what I was seeing "down there". I'm sure I'll be much more selective in the future. Odd thing is that photos I think are junk seem to get the ooohs and ahhhs from non-divers.
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