Pictures from snorkeling in Aruba

[MarkSayers]

This was my first time snorkeling and I had a blast. We took a charter out to a reef by DePalm island. The fish were colorful and some of the corals were huge. It’s too bad that most of my pictures were blurry.
Does anybody have any tips on taking pictures with disposables cameras? The fish are fast and they keep moving and every close up shot of coral turned out blurry.

Thanks,
Mark

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[scashman]

Looks much better than most I've taken. What brand of camera did you use?

 

[MarkSayers]

I used a generic Rite Aid disposables underwater camera. Next time I will try to be still before taking pictures (hoping that will help). Every picture I took while following a fish turned out bad.

 

[PSam]

The brain photos turned out great for a disposable!

 

[Rossini]

coral grave yard

I wonder what that place looked like 15/20 years ago.....

 

[sasscuba]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12188642#post12188642 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Rossini
coral grave yard

I wonder what that place looked like 15/20 years ago.....

I believe it is the camera that makes most of the coral look dead...here is one I ran through photoshop to clean up a bit. As you can see the brain is very much alive.

 

[trickso_dave]

looks fantastic.

 

[jessicalynn1086]

great pics i love it down there

 

[FlaGuy]

Looks awesome...I can't believe how clear the water looks.

 

[BLAZEHOK68]

i went snorkeling there last august. good times. i spent hours out there just floating around.

 

[KeeperOfFish]

I was there last April! I went snorkeling to a reef close to DePalm island, it's was actually a continuation of the same fringing reef. It was called Mangel Halto. These pics may look alright, but at Mangel Halto, everything was beautifully pristine with gorgs, sps, sponges, tunicates, loads of fish, inverts. It was beautiful!

 

[black_majik]

Aruba's reef has been extremely damaged in the past years warm climate has made hurricane's run right though the sensitive reefs there and thanks to the hurricanes wave action destroys the reef. There is a good video on youtube about this.