Honu

Im going back out to Hawaii later this year, and I was wondering, if

I see another Honu, would it be better to get a closer shot or is

there anything you can see to make this better?

how did you manage an underwater picture with a rebel G? If this was a different camera then you may have limitations that you will not be able to overcome, and thus must compensate or settle. Fixed lens? Fixed focus? Depth? need more input...

Oops, posting mistake, all others were taken with Rebel.. this was taken with a single use underwater camera

With underwater photography, you are limited by your equipment. Single use cameras can work well, but usually only at close distances with flash.

Get below the turtle and shoot up towards the surface - in cloudy water, the silhouette will work better than the direct looking down picture. Also, you need to fill more of the frame, as the background it boring - just plain rock.

 

HTH!

Hi Mike. Getting in close is the key underwater. The water itself always turns blue and hazy. I have never seen a single use underwater camera with a flash. You need a good camera that can accomodate a real strobe with a high guide number. You can check out my underwater photos if you like. They were taken with an old Nikonos.

I'm not sure how close your single use camera can focus, but try to get as close as possible to reduce haziness and bring out the colour as much as possible. I think a Nikonos and a 15mm lens would be perfect for taking a similarly composed shot which is much clearer or a 28mm lens if the turtle doesn't want to get close. The composition is good and the turtle is in a very good orientation, facing the camera. It's difficult to get them to do that close up but if you can it's worth it. Also try to shoot at a bit more of an upward angle ie get a bit below the subject, to bring out the colour of the water.

Sometimes tweaking can fix some of the interest problems. Most people see this as dull, but they can't exactly figure out why. Usually it's because composition is wrong, or color is wrong etc. With this one, I think the way you shot it wasn't horrible, you just didnt have the punch you needed because of the quality of lens. I fixed a little of that. See what you think.