Underwater Photos
Here are some captures from yesterday’s dives here in Grand Cayman. I’m using a Canon G11 with a Sea-n-Sea external strobe. Love this camera for carrying around on travel and for the reasonably priced underwater housing that’s available. Nikon doesn’t compete in this format.
I have only one critcism of these photos – there should be many more! Absolutely breathtakingly beautiful!!! I love all the different textures and colors you’ve captured so well. Keep ’em coming, please.
FANTABULOUS!!!! For thos eof us not in the Grand Cayman and those that do not know how to dive (me) ….More please!!!
Are you saying you took these with a point and shoot camera?
@Margot
Thanks, we didn’t go out today and i felt like a lazy bum, even though we both deciding not to get up for the 7:30 time, 15 min van ride, 40 min boat ride and dives. Why is having fun always so much work?
@Julie
Thanks, this camera is great. i was previously using a SD400 with the same strobe, and the results were nowhere near to what i’m getting now. The G11 shoots in full manual pretty easily, although you could use it as a point and shoot on the land. I’m shooting it in RAW to allow for the almost necessary white balance adjustment that’s needed in UW photoing. After that the only think i’ve done is a quick adjustment in brightness and then a final sharpening.
Absolutely awesome!! I’m with Julie and Margot – definitely more please! I took the initial PADI course to qualify me to dive, but unfortunately I suffered from severe motion sickness both getting to the dive site and also underwater, so any ideas of uwp, were totally squashed. I love the sea turtle – they seem so majestic.
Wow, I can’t even get a sharp picture of my Piranha in his tank!
I love the turtle shot!
Yea, the turtles are awesome, you can usually swim right up to them, or they’ll follow you around. This was a small one eating from a big chunk of sponge. The white part is were he’s just taken a bite, and the Angelfish is on standby for easy scraps.
We also saw a much larger older one who was cruising with two remoras swimming along his underside.