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Diving with free divers (and trying to photograph them!)

Sorry for my poor record in keeping this blog up-we are very busy at Capernwray with courses runing just about every day-and my laptop refuses to work underwater!

On Friday 26th, David Hack and I went off for a photo dive. It was some time since David took his camera underwater, so the idea was to work out a few kinks and get some time in underwater. We were joined for the latter portion of the dive by Rosie Hancock, who I had been doing the AIDA course with. I have long wanted to get some good images of free divers underwater-they look so good! Anyway, I found that getting the shots was more dificult than I thought. The best angles seem to be straight up-which causes all sorts of problems with exposure! I was trying to use the strobes to light Rosie, and expose for the background, but with a 1.4 x teleconvertor on, was finding that I had to back off to far for the strobes to light her up, or if I turned the strobes power up too much, lots of backscatter. Ok so learning point is to shoot with the 10-17mm Tokina, without the convertor off!

Diving at Capernwray last Thursday

Dave Morgan and I went for pleasure dive late last Thursday, cameras in hand. I was using my 10-17 with a 1.4 teleconvertor to try and get those up close and personal pictuers of the Sturgeon, but it was not to be! No sturgeon to be found! Still, the trout were on form, and the sun put in a brief appearance! Thank Dave for a nice dive!