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GETTING TO GRIPS WITH DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

AND THE SEA & SEA DX 8000G

In The Beginning

I had very little interest in any form of photography until

a few years ago when diving and the idea of taking

pictures under water started to intrigue me.

About 4 years ago, I bought a second hand Sea & Sea

Motor Marine II EX camera from a friend and added a

strobe, macro and a wide-angle lens. I had the ‘toy’ but

little or no real experience of photography, other than

an automated compact land camera.

I found that the learning curve for underwater

photography was slow. I went diving, took pictures, had

the film developed and looked at the results. Typically a

few acceptable pictures per roll of film and many thoughts of ‘if only I had done this or that…’ and by the

next diving trip had only retained what seemed like a small residual amount of knowledge on how to take

better pictures.

As time went by, the picture quality gradually started to improve and I discovered there were many

aspects I needed to master as an underwater photographer. With hindsight and now that I have a digital

camera, I feel there was some benefit in learning some of the basic principles about U/W photography

through the medium of film. I only had 36 exposures at most on a dive so had to learn the art of

composing a picture and becoming selective about deciding what was worth shooting in terms of the

camera and operator being able to ‘deliver’.

About 2 years ago, I took on the role as the South East Asia Correspondent for the BS-AC Travel Club. I

was travelling & diving extensively in SE Asia and was writing dive trip reports and adding my own

pictures. It was about this time I started to become self-critical and wanted to improve the quality of my

pictures.

The lessons I had to learn were:

• Composing the shot

• Making best use of available light

• What the MM II EX could realistically deliver

• Patience and technique when photographing fish

• Spontaneous opportunities – being in the right place at the right time

• Ideally diving where only myself and my buddy on the dive site to minimise ‘disturbance’

As regards photographing fish or any other animal at close range, I noticed that most animals seem to

view the lens as the ‘evil eye’ and instinctively turn away or reduce their profile view to the camera to a

minimum as if some sort of survival instinct takes over. This is where spontaneous opportunities to get a

good natural close up shot of a fish are worth the wait.

By summer 2005 I returned from a diving trip to Indonesia and had many reels of film processed.

I reviewed the results and started to feel frustrated with the limitations of what I had produced. I had a

choice- forget trying to improve my U/W photography and take the camera for a dive on the odd occasion

or upgrade…..

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Page 1

GETTING TO GRIPS WITH DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE SEA & SEA DX 8000G In The Beginning I had very littl

Page 2 - Going Digital

Holding The Camera Underwater The older sea-arms were a lot longer than the mini-sea arm and seemed to have a section that doubled as a decent place h

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Conclusions On Quality Of Photographs Overall, I am impressed by the results produced by the 8000G. Macro photogr

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Appendix 1 Camera Setting crib sheet (laminated for field use) Camera Set Up Thumbwheels to top of cam

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Menu control button to rear of camera Screen 1 7 . Picture/ Quality Size As required. 8. Focus Always s

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MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY Make sure camera zoom facility is set to ‘W’ (wide) on the slider bar (ie: no zoom lens). There is a

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Parting With Money I decided to upgrade but was not convinced that current digital camera technology was ideally suited for underwater work. After do

Page 8 - May 2006 The Farne Islands

Now after a dive, I can still remember the circumstances on how I took the picture, review the results, even recall the cam

Page 9 - Conclusions

Here is a selection of pictures from the second dive.

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April 2006 – Angaga Island, Maldives Easter time and it is time to get some sun and go blue water diving. I practiced my land photography with the

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Macro Photography Divers & Wrecks

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Land Photography

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May 2006 The Farne Islands We were invited as guests on a BS-AC Club trip to the Farne Islands. I had ideas about photographing seals as I have had

Page 14 - YS-90 Strobe Set Up

Conclusions My Impressions The DX 8000 G And Having Now Made 18 Digital Photography Dives The Camer

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