Some pics from zenobia last month

[kyri]

Hi these are the first pics i have ever taken underwater and i am no photographer on land either but just wanted to get some pics of a great few dives i had at the zenobia there not very good judging by some pictures ive seen but i have only just got in to diving and photography so it is all very new to me and very exciting. Anyway just wanted to share them with the rest of you on this forum.
The pics where taken with a sony dsc p-200 in an ikelite case

 

[kyri]

If anyone can give me some info on some equipment and knowledge as to how to make my photography better it would be very appreciated thanks

 

[Rockbrother]

I am quite new to underwater photograph myself. I have a canon A80 with housing.
What I have found though is that if you don't have an external flash (which can cost a lot of money) you will get the flash scatter in your pictures. This is because the light from you flash reflects back from particals in the water. It gets worse in dark or dirty conditions.

The closer you are to you subject the less scatter you will have because there is less particals. So I mostly take macro pictures of small reef critters. I also cheet a bit and remove the spots with photoshop.

I will suggest you take off the time and date stamp, that info is should be stored in properties of the jpg file.
other than that take as many pics as you can, and have fun. rofl

 

[kyri]

cheers thanks for the advice, the pics were taken on macro,i am looking at investing in a external flash any recomendations

 

[Rockbrother]

I don't own a flash either, but try http://www.ikelite.com/, they have quite a selection.

 

[Rockbrother]

I just found this site aswell, they have a range of brands and also 2nd hand stuff.
www.backscatter.com/hostedstore/products/UnderwaterStrobe.html

 

[DavidWarshaw]

My experience... Take lots of pictures... and go digital. Digital allows you to throw away all the bad ones (before any one sees them). It also provides immediate feedback as you can try a bunch of stuff on a dive, look at the results, and make corrections on the next dive.

I had a very bad Samsung system. It took great pictures... but the housing had a funky o-ring, and I flooded the camera THREE times. They replaced it each time... the latest (last week) they told me they had stopped making that housing. A case of a company getting into an area where they had no expertise.

As a result, I have gone to the PRO... Sea Life's reefmaster. They've been in the business twenty years... so they know what it entails. I just purchased their new DC500 pro package, that includes an external strobe. I agree with others... external stobe is important. Cost for system is ~$700 complete... which isn't bad as these things go. They match the housing to the camera, which is 5 megapixels and has special settings for underwater photography.

Also, check out WWW.DIVEPIX.COM When you upload your underwater shots to this site, they have special color-correcting algorithms that restore true color... as if you had that external stobe. They make the colors really pop... and you can then order prints at fairly reasonable cost. Hope this helps. ENJOY.

DWAR

PS: Couple of my shots attached

 

[mps798]

hi kyri
kyriakos maybe
well have you tried any photo editing program ? (like adobe photoshop ) with those softwares you can edit your photos the way you want , ofcourse a digital camera is recomendet unless you have a scanner
hope that helps

 

[kyri]

yes it is kyriakos

hi whereabouts in cyprus are you how many times have you dived the zenobia

thanks for the advice on the photoshop software it will just be a learning process for me as this is very new to me

regards kyri

 

[mps798]

well i actually live in Larnaka and i 've dive a few times (i can not tell you an aqqurate number)to zenobia the last 10 years and i always enjoy it

 

[mps798]

ooh and about what i told you , happy to help you ,
see ya