Underwater photography?

[-DeaDLocK-]

I've not posted on here in years - used to love travelling and doing land-based photography in my younger (loner!) days, but realised that a lot of creative land-based work and travelling with non-photographers don't really mix together, and so I hung up my old D70 and replaced it with human travel companions!

Anyway I've been scuba diving for a while now and just started getting into underwater photography, and I LOVE it.

Here's a set from a trip I went on last week (in Bali): http://flic.kr/s/aHsjZpmfe5

For those of you who don't dive, the little shrimps and such may not hold much interest, but the amount and variety of widlife underwater in these coral reefs is absolutely stunning.

Anyone else here do underwater work?

[FussyFez]

Stunning shots mate, what kit are you using?

[RobbieKB]

Really high quality images; great light.

[DIW35]

I've done some underwater video work, but not for some time now.

[JustinMinns]

Not to your standard but I do some underwater photography when I get the chance (snorkelling rather than diving) and love it

https://www.flickr.com/photos/justinminns/sets/721...

[Disastrous]

Both superb - very impressed!

Would love to know a but more about the kit you both use.

[JustinMinns]

Disastrous said:

Both superb - very impressed!

Would love to know a but more about the kit you both use.

Thanks... I currently use a Canon G1-X in a Canon underwater housing but for most of those I used an old Powershot A640 and Canon housing. The G1-X is much better because it shoots RAW which makes processing so much easier but it can still be frustrating because any AF delay or the tiniest shutter lag seems like an eternity when you are holding your breath, trying not to float back up to the surface and hoping the fish don't move!

[-DeaDLocK-]

Yes, thanks all! I have a Sony RX100 (original version). Helps that I have all the gubbins (ally housing, twin strobes, wet lenses etc), because with U/W photography it really is the case that gear plays a much more vital role in whether or not you can grab the shot than it does on land. Spending the $$$ is half the battle (which bodes less for my skill, but oh well...)!

[Disastrous]

Thanks. Presumably the casing and strobes etc are at least the same if not more than the camera?

Looks cracking though.

[otolith]

Great photographs - if I didn't know better I would have assumed that some of them were taken in a controlled environment.

[-DeaDLocK-]

Disastrous said:

Presumably the casing and strobes etc are at least the same if not more than the camera?

Unfortunately the basic camera itself is only 15% of the total cost of the entire kit!