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Tips and Tricks:
Tip 1: Never Lend Out Your
Photo Equipment
I know it sound heartless. It's a hard lesson to learn but
experience has taught me that nobody will care for your camera
equipment like you will. It's an expensive mistake rarely
repeated.
Having worked in underwater
photo labs in the past, I have witnessed dozens upon dozens of
flooded or dropped cameras, scratched lenses and lost cameras
("Gee, I left it out on the beach for a couple of hours,
whaddya mean I'm responsible?")
In most cases, they were the
result of complete indifference on the part of the borrower: they
didn't pay for it, so why should they care for it? Furthermore,
underwater cameras and strobes require constant
maintenance. Even if it's your most trusted
friend, generally only you will invest the time in learning how to
maintain the equipment properly.
Tip 2. Use a Low Speed ISO
Setting and a Strobe
This has been covered previously, but the short explanation is
this: unless you use a strobe in conjunction with a low-speed ISO
setting you'll never be able to achieve fully-saturated vivid
images underwater.
Tip 3. Invest in a Super
Wide and Close-up or Macro Lens.
The combinations of theses two lenses will give you the
greatest utility. All of the pictures in the Underwater Galleries
section were taken with that combination. |
