Comments on: 15 Inspiring Underwater Images

By: Imran

Imran — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:47:33 +0000

I’m an underwater photographer. Your humble critic is requested.
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By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:42:16 +0000

In the first pix of the boy snorkeling, what is the little arm and hand on the left side? Weird.

By: Reeflections

Reeflections — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:36:50 +0000

Derek,

The tiny particles you speak of are what we call “backscatter” in the UW photography world. The light from the flash is reflected off of tiny particles suspended in the water back into the lens. You hit one solution right on the nose, shoot in ambient light. As you stated, this only works near the surface. Once you get too far under you lose light and color quickly. The other solution is to use an external strobe, or strobes, located on arms extended away from the camera body. This helps prevent the light from being reflected directly back into the lens. Hope this helps. Good luck!

– Jeff
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By: jennifer laurie munoz

jennifer laurie munoz — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:57:58 +0000

beautiful pictures! makes me want to take some of my own =)

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:49:08 +0000

I recently got a present of a 6 megapixel sports camera and I took about 50 shots with it about an hour before sundown. Some of the images taken near or on the surface looked great but a lot taken 2 metres under were obscured by tiny particles reflecting back from the flash. I would say the biggest consideration for me would be to shoot in good light near the surface without using flash and/or try and get the best water quality and visibility available. The camera was bought from Aldi for €130 and is a great inexpensive way to try out underwater photography…its waterproof down to 30 metres though I haven’t had a chance to try that out yet ;-)

By: Fehn

Fehn — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:50:50 +0000

To get the surface of the water to act as a mirror hold your camera at and angle less that the critical angle for total internal reflection. The equation for TIR is theta = arcsin (n2/n1), or for water its just 48.6 degree.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:31:10 +0000

These pics are brilliant. Every single one of them catches the eye!

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:29:34 +0000

Awesome! The 2nd picture looks a little fake though.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:42:04 +0000

These are amazing and so inspiring :)

By: David

David — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:30:52 +0000

Can you get underwater cases for DSLRs ? I’d be scared still to emerge my camera but these photos are brilliant. The shark one is my particular favourite.