Greetings,

I'm primarily here to use the classifieds to try and offload some gear I'm upgrading from, but as I start to take this hobby more seriously I realize this is also probably a great resource for overcoming some of my current challenges!

My wife and I started diving about two and half years ago and have made a number of dive centric trips since (Curaçao, Roatan, Cozumel, Belize, West Palm). Our next big trip is a north route live aboard in the Red Sea. I got started with photography after our first big trip to curaçao. I brought a DJI Osmo 4 with no expectations and no real knowledge and realized a few things: I'm never going to watch videos but I will definitely hang photos on my walls, and this shit is hard and I'll need some proper equipment for wall-worthy photos.

I got an e-m10 mk iv with a couple compact AOI strobes and a wide angle wet lens and have been at it for our past three vacations. There's definitely times where I think "not much new and interesting to shoot today, maybe I'd just be happier leaving the camera and focusing on diving..." and then random magic happens. I know very little about photography but I have tried to learn some basics about exposure and framing, and I generally try to trust my instincts and take advantage of the opportunities I have. I think this is primarily a numbers game where you take as many photos as you possibly can, and if you're lucky maybe 1-2% of them will be worth sharing.

My biggest struggle right now as I move on from an auto editing app into real photo editing software is with color correction and masking. Hopefully I can learn some of that through the resources here.

Thanks for having me,

Kevin

Hi Kevin!

Great to have you with us. A warm welcome to Waterpixels.

I suggest you start a new thread with your question under the appropriate forum as that’ll get more views than here in the Members Intro thread.

Best wishes.