primary light for wreck photography

[dwood]

Most of my diving is around and sometimes in wrecks. My best light is a light cannon, and I'm thinking of upgrading to a canister light. However, I've gotten into photography and don't want to leave the camera behind. How do people handle primary lighting for this? I'm concerned that a light head on a goodman handle will interfere with changing controls on the camera. Also, I would think the light would reflect off the housing into my face if I were pushing buttons etc. I could turn the light off each time I was going to adjust the camera, but that would be a pain and pretty much rule out an HID light. The other thought I had was to mount an HID or halogen light head on one of the arms (the other has the strobe). That way I could see where I was going, signal if necesssary, and turn the beam away from the subject If it was going to interfere. Any thoughts/advice appreciated.

 

[AquaGuy]

My suggestion would be to mount the HID to one of your strobe arms. I have recently does this for my light cannon. Here is a picture of it:

Light Cannon

It appears works great for me!

 

[blacknet]

Hello,

Keep in mind the color temp of whichever light you use. There's nothing worse than seeing bad colors on images due to the light source.

If the wreck has decent visibility you may want to consider ambient work.

Ed