Swimming Pool

[jalenaaron]

Does anybody have any tips on taking swimming and fun pool pictures? Please give me tips aperture, ISO, shutter settings?

[clockdoc]

Pool reflections and water can sometimes fool the autoexposure feature of your camera. Start out by shooting lots of pictures, post one you like and apply what you learn in the critiques.

[Nicole]

Make sure that you're using a waterproof camera if you're in the water? ;)

If your camera allows you to, you could try using a polarizing filter to get rid of the glare on the water.

But like clockdoc says, try some shots then share with us to see where you could make changes :)

[SmokedIronMade]

I'm new at this, but i think i was able to get some good shots with the beach and manual mode of my camera, here are two examples.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smokedironmade/931168135/" title="Intercambio de fotos"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1220/931168135_c434d53549.jpg" width="500" height="281" alt="Esta fria el agua" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smokedironmade/931168011/" title="Intercambio de fotos"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1302/931168011_38c7af89c2.jpg" width="500" height="281" alt="En el flotador" /></a>

For manual settings i tried with the lowest iso (80 for my camera) and a fast shutter time to avoid blurry (due my model was not stay in a place too much time :)).

BTW, this two were taken today at midday, so there was too much sun light, i did what i could.

Hope this help!

[ELAY]

Hey SmokedIronMade, nice photos, especially for midday sun. Love the blues.

Quick thought -- your Beach mode is designed to help your camera cope with the high reflectivity of sand and sea. It may not be the best choice for a pool. Depending on whether your camera's beach mode 1) tries to improve the appearance of faces by overexposing a bit, or 2) tries to prevent gray tones by underexposing (depends on the camera), the exposure may be off if you use this mode at the pool.

EL

[clockdoc]

Nice shots! Try a little flash fill next time to add some sparkle to the eyes and brighten up the shadows. Check your camera's flash sync speed as well as it will probably be under 1/250 sec or slower.

[SmokedIronMade]

Nice shots! Try a little flash fill next time to add some sparkle to the eyes and brighten up the shadows. Check your camera's flash sync speed as well as it will probably be under 1/250 sec or slower.

I will try that, btw my camera manual specify that the maximum flash sync speed is 1/500 sec.

Thanks for the idea!

EDIT: I forgot to say that i was taking the photos with zoom (to avoid getting wet), so i think the flash wouldn't work in that case.