…I fired off about 30 shots but only came up with about 4 usable photos. I was shooting only macro with my manual strobe loaded with my super-diffuser cap. The vis was terrible for this dive trip. We started west of Parson’s Landing then moved east to Parson’s itself and then on to two more dives at Emerald Bay…
More Manual Strobe Photos – Catalina Island 8-03
But I was really getting the hang of this manual strobe… I like the way the light was just falling off the subject and allowing lots of blue and green to show in the background. I also got a few shots of an Abalone I fed kelp to.. the way I light these shots still leaves plenty of room for my usual levels and curves adjustment layers.
Manual Strobe (me?) — Catalina 6-03
This was the second time I took out this strobe. It’s a DS50… This trip I outfitted the diffuser cap with 10 or 20 layers (I forget) of frosted mylar all stacked and trimmed and fitted inside the cap and I think it worked great,… Here I’m busy trying to come up with some working exposures and am not too concerned with composing something serious.
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