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Underwater Photo Tips
Digital Compact Camera/Housing
You bought a new camera and underwater camera housing suitable for your camera. You couldn't wait to go diving and shoot your first pictures, when you download your pictures to your computer you notice that the results aren't quite what you were expected. If so, don’t worry, many people had experience the same during the first time using their camera.
Here are some tips that will help you improve your underwater photography.
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Tip # 1 Underwater Flashes & Strobes
Since water tends to absorb color and light, the deeper you go, the darker and bluer your images will turn out to be. In shallower water you lose the red and the orange colors, and in deeper water, you lose the yellow and green. How can you solve this? By using an artificial light source (Strobe)
The use of underwater strobes in all depths, during daylight and night dives, will improve the color in your underwater photographs.
Fantasea, Sea & Sea, Ikelite, offers a selection of excellent underwater strobes, specially designed for compact digital housings and SLR digital housings.
Fantasea Nano Flash
The Nano Flash is perfect for all digital Aim and Shoot cameras, including those with the Pre Flash function. The "Nano" is an ultra compact digital slave strobe and underwater protective housing kit. The strobe unit triggers in sync with the digital cameras internal flash by a small light sensor in the strobe body. Visit Fantasea for more info.
Sea & Sea YS-17'
The YS-17- makes it easy to use underwater lighting more casually, with TTL function so anyone can easily enjoy. Visit Sea & Sea for more info.
Tip # 2 Focus Light for your
Underwater Photo System
Compact digital cameras make use of an automatic focus mechanism which automatically identifies the subject and sets the camera's focus according to the distance between the lens and subject.
Since the system performs the required calculations based on the subject's contrast, such a failure is most likely in low light conditions, as during night dives, cave dives, deep dives, etc.
Focus lights were designed to better enable the camera's auto focus, especially in low light conditions, by adding contrast to the subject.
Focus lights can also serve as a primary or secondary night dive light.
Fantasea LED Focus Lights
The Nano High intensity ultra compact LED light, especially designed as a modeling light and to better enable the camera's auto focus.
Visit Fantasea for more info.
The LED 360 Light is a new LED light from Fantasea, which
features 36 super bright LED bulbs and a focus light dim out
sensor, which shuts the light off for a second whenever a flash
is fired, in order to prevent a hot spot in the image caused by
the beam of the light.
Nano Led
Led 360
Tip # 3 Macro Lens for your
Considering the fact that macro photography is relatively easy to compose with respect to exposure, lighting and focus settings, it is often the most popular type of photography among beginner photographers.
Most compact digital cameras feature a minimum focus distance that enables sharp images only to a certain extent and within a certain distance from the subject.
"Wet" Macro lenses are accessory lenses that fit onto the housings lens port and can be installed and removed during the course of the dive.
Macro Wet Lenses
Olympus PTMC-01 Underwater Macro Conversion Lens chek your fit for your housing visit olympus
Epoque DML2-55DR Underwater Macro Lens high quality macro lens that works on many housings with ports that have a 55mm thread
Fantasea Line FML-01 is a high quality macro lens that works on many housings with ports that have a 55mm thread
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