Scuba Mama

Ding,

I was able to attend a photo seminar at the dive show in Chicago. I found my type of camera being an older digital is limited with WB and selection. The pictures I posted were taken in jpeg. What the big difference would be is strobe. I have a ys25. I need to ramp it up and get a better arm to angle my shoots. I should see a big improvement after that. Thanks for the advise.

Scuba Mama

ding

I found the strobe is only good for up to 2 meters when 2m or more I turn the strobe off and change the aperture

This came out ok with the strobe off

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Scuba Mama

Nice shot. I am wondering how deep you were and if you are using a digital camera?

Scuba Mama

ding

Depth was about 15m and its an olympus 8080 in an Ikelite housing with a ds50 strobe TTL.

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diverepublic

You should always shoot in RAW anyway, not only can you set the WB afterwards in photoshop, but the image quality is considerably better. jpeg is a form of compression and it stands to reason that any form of compression loses detail to achieve a smaller file size. The only reason to shoot jpeg is if you either don't have the RAW setting available on your camera at all or you only have very limited memory available. Also, don't use your camera manufacturer's RAW converter - if poss use the RAW plug-in for photoshop if you have that (not sure if it's supported in photoshop lite though...)

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Scuba Mama

I have a question, when shooting in RAW, my understanding is it takes longer for the camera to set up. More time is needed to record the shot. Maybe I am just not as clear with the feature. Any insight.

diverepublic

That depends on your make and model of camera. I shoot on a Canon 20d and it makes absolutely no noticeable difference whatsoever wether I shoot RAW or jpeg to camera time. Your manual (if you are - unlike me - one of those organised people who still has theirs) will tell you if it makes any difference. Ultimately I suppose it depends on your expectations of how your shots are to be used: if they're only for memories and maybe sharing online you'll be fine with jpeg but if you're hoping to get great prints from them it's absolutely worth shooting RAW and converting later in photoshop. You can also then clean them up a little and get rid of backscatter and suchlike using the clone or sticky plaster tools. Incidentally, if you want to maintain the best quality you can the optimum setup is shooting in RAW with color mode set to Adobe 1998 (it has the widest tonal range of all the color modes) and then saving your processed images out of photoshop as TIFFs (not jpegs) with no LZW compression.

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ding

My oly 8080 takes for ever to write RAW or RAW & jpg together so I only use RAW for special shoots if I'm just puddling about I use jpg.

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