While on the MacMania V Geek Cruise last week, Macworld published a brief photo album of our scuba diving day in Belize. However, due to the connection speed on the boat, those images are both small and of low quality.
Now that I've had a bit of time at home, I put together some larger albums, with higher-quality 800x600 images. I created a separate album for each of our dive days along with a Google Earth placemark file that shows the approximate dive site for each day:
I've had a few emails asking to see more pictures, so here they are. Please keep in mind I'm a rank amateur at this--what you're seeing here are literally my second and third attempts ever at underwater photography.
A few people have asked about the technology for such images, which were shot at depths ranging from 30' to 90'. The setup is amazingly simple—I have an underwater housing, good to 100' or thereabouts, for our aging Canon PowerShot S30 (there's a shot of the housing in that review).
I use the built-in flash, get as close as possible to the object, and rely on the LCD viewer to frame the picture, as there's no way to use a viewfinder while wearing a dive mask. Bring spare batteries and an extra RAM card (change both between the two daily dives), shoot a ton of shots (as you can never be quite sure what you'll get), and make sure the flash is set to always go off.
The above 35 or so "best of" shots represent about 28% of the 125ish images I shot on the two dive days--ah, the joys of digital photography. There's no real "cost" for taking a bad shot, beyond a bit of RAM card space and battery usage.
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I have the exact same camera and underwater housing. I have always had problems with the housing fogging up half way thru my dives. Do you have any tricks to keep this from happening or do you experience the same problem?
In your Terneffe series, the "I don't have any idea what this is" fish are Parrots. They grind up corals as they bite off lunch. The residue, Parrot pooh, is the nice white sand we love!
Chris: I haven't had any fogging issues, but I've only used the camera five or six times. I don't recall any special treatment; just sealing the rubber gasket with the provided grease (for lack of a better word).
BigTuna: Thanks for the info! Nice to know what I was looking at.
-rob.
I have the exact same camera and underwater housing. I have always had problems with the housing fogging up half way thru my dives.
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