Red Sea Diving.... Round 2!

Thanks!

Well all you really need are a camera and a underwater housing. A strobe helps if your diving deeper then 10m or so. There are even a few point and shoots out now that are rated to 10m so you don't even need a housing anymore!

There are housing made for most cameras out there. Everything from a basic point and shoot to the top end DSLRs. The material for housings are usually either acrylic or aluminum depending on brand and build quality.

Hope that answer most of your questions. Feel free to ask some more if you like.

I do warn you though, underwater photography is almost as addictive as reef keeping.

Cheers,
Tom
 
Great shots, loved your thread last year, and am really enjoying this one.

I think my favorite shot is this one so far, the turtle against the backdrop of the reef and schooling anthias looks great:

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Thanks mcliffy, I'm glad your enjoying this years offerings. I'm happy that I'm able to share higher quality pictures this time around.

I have at least 30 more turtle pictures from that series. There was a lot of current on that dive and the turtle was just riding it out. I was able to drift along side it for a couple of minutes while hardly moving at all. I shot pictures for the first 2 minutes or so and then just enjoyed the rest of it.

Truly a memorable diving moment I won't soon forget.
 
Drool..... I mean WOW! I have yet to go diving, but when I see pictures like these it really makes me want to give it a try.
 
Its well worth it ataylo13, definitely should give it a try if you have the chance.

There is a PADI "discovery scuba" option that many places offer that is a great opportunity for people to give scuba a try with minimal cost and time involved.
 
Back to Ras Mohammad today after a break yesterday cause I was feeling crappy.

Had a chance for 3 dives today. Please let me know what you think or how I could improve.

You can click on any of the images to see a higher quality image and the rest of my gallery.

Enjoy!










 
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They just keep getting better - the D700 is generating some incredibly sharp and colorful shots, you must be excited. And careful around those titan triggers...we had one take a chunk out of a woman's leg on a dive in Thailand.
 
I'm very excited with what the D700 can spit out and the control that working in RAW is giving me. Hopefully my pictures will continue to get better and better. I know that just from a production angle things have changed significantly since the begin of last week were I was hammer out between 650 and 750 picture PER dive. I'm now down to about 100 per dive with maybe 15-20 keeps out of that bunch.

I take every single picture twice with exposure bracketing of -0.7 so that at least one of the two comes out decently, that has helped a lot.


Thanks Joe! I'm glad you like what I'm doing.


Critics are welcome as well!
 
The dive this morning was rather uneventful so I concentrated on fishy pictures. I'm pretty happy how some came out and I'm getting much better at predicting movement and getting decent pictures. Before I would hammer out 20-40 shots of a fish to get one usable one and now I'm down to 1 or 2. As far as post processing goes things are getting a lot easier for me as my technique improves.





The eye of the beast!


Unfortunately I cut off the streamers but still came out ok.

These guys are damn hard to capture. Don't like sticking around whenever I get close but I finally was able to sneak up on one and get a decent shot.

 
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