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Underwater photograpy..newbie to it

Started Feb 12, 2020 | Discussions thread
OP thicks13 Regular Member • Posts: 102
Re: Underwater photograpy..newbie to it

Thank you so much...those are still really nice pictures.  Yes, the Four Winds are the ones we are going out with and I asked them about renting a strobe and they said they were not permitted...something about sensitivity. soo..

But we will spend 5 hours at the crater, then 3.5 over at either Turtle town or coral garden.

We are also going to snorkel out of Kauai.

Thanks again...tim

PHXAZCRAIG wrote:

thicks13 wrote:

And thank you for this...I am making notes! As I noted in my response to Lars, I don't think they allow the use of strobes there, dues to sensitivity(Molokini crater)

I've dove front wall and back wall of Molokini Crater. If they are not allowing flash now, I bet it is more to do with making it easier on the dive staff. The coral there is mostly bleached and beat up from so many divers, not flashes. I had built-in flash on my crater dives, but I had a single external strobe for the back wall.

Here's a shot of my late wife with a manta at the back wall of Molokini.

Canon SD630, my first digital underwater camera

I think this shot was taken inside the crater, without flash, or perhaps with the pop-up just being too weak. I don't think this camera had RAW capability.

You can see the coral is pretty bleached.

The diving was better right across the way from Molokini Crater to Maui, at the Turtletown dive site.

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