Underwater photography is a completely different monster. First of all, you are doing quite a bit of "keeping yourself alive" when you are underwater before you can even focus on taking pictures. On top of that, you are carrying around a big bulky FILM camera (digital is more common today, but not so much 5 years ago) and you don't really know what you are taking a picture of because the viewfinder is pretty much useless with goggles on.
While in the Great Barrier Reef, I took a course to get my Advanced Open Water diving certificate. This allows me to dive deeper and lets other dive shops around the world know they can trust you do be a decent diver. OF course, I also love photography, so the opportunity to rent a camera for the day was definitely exciting. They say if you get one good photo out of a roll, you should be happy. It's darker underwater, the flash doesn't travel very far and keeping still (or getting the fish to stay still) isn't easy. If you can get under the object, so that you can take advantage of the sun, that's best.
Here I have a picture of a giant clam. It doesn't move and it doesn't live very deep in the water, so that made the picture taking easier. Although the "rule of thirds" says that the clam shouldn't be centered, when you aren't sure of what exactly you are taking, it is best to put the object you want in the center so that you know you got it all. I love that I still got a pretty fish in the corner of the photo and some coral in the foreground that framses the shot.
While in the Great Barrier Reef, I took a course to get my Advanced Open Water diving certificate. This allows me to dive deeper and lets other dive shops around the world know they can trust you do be a decent diver. OF course, I also love photography, so the opportunity to rent a camera for the day was definitely exciting. They say if you get one good photo out of a roll, you should be happy. It's darker underwater, the flash doesn't travel very far and keeping still (or getting the fish to stay still) isn't easy. If you can get under the object, so that you can take advantage of the sun, that's best.
Here I have a picture of a giant clam. It doesn't move and it doesn't live very deep in the water, so that made the picture taking easier. Although the "rule of thirds" says that the clam shouldn't be centered, when you aren't sure of what exactly you are taking, it is best to put the object you want in the center so that you know you got it all. I love that I still got a pretty fish in the corner of the photo and some coral in the foreground that framses the shot.
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