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As a Calico Bass stared intently into my mask during a safety stop, A Self Portrait was composed by viewing my own reflection on the front element of a 16mm wide angle lens mounted on a Sea & Sea Motor Marine 2, held at arms length. |
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As a Calico Bass stared intently into my mask during a safety stop, A Self Portrait was composed by viewing my own reflection on the front element of a 16mm wide angle lens mounted on a Sea & Sea Motor Marine 2, held at arms length. |
 | Becoming a certified Scuba diver in 1990 and logging over a thousand dives since. I carry a camera on every dive, as each submersion offers new photographic opportunities that I don't want to miss. |
Cameras: Like most divers I started taking pictures on my first dives with a small disposable underwater camera that most dive stores and beach shops sell, and the results were predictable. Lots of thumb and finger fish due to a lack of a real view finder, blurry close ups and no color, except blue in the images After my first few dives, I located a used Ikelite housing designed for an old Cannon AE1 , which I already owned, bought a small cheap strobe and ventured into the deep figuring that I would soon lose my trusty old Cannon to flooding. Quite a few of my favorite photographs where made using this totally manual setup. The Garibaldi is one of them. Taken with a 28mm lens stopped down to f22.
Sometime later I invested in a Sea & Sea Motor Marine 2, complete with a YS50ttl strobe and 3 lenses that I could change (and lose) while underwater. This is probably the most flexible system on the market and I recommend this system to divers that want to get into underwater photography and want to make the most of valuable dive time while on expensive diving vacations. More to come if you have found this page as one of the navigation features on my page prematurely displayed this and I didn't want fight with the software <G>
