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@bvanant "A lot of folks seem to want to protect all sea creatures; to do that we should not get on jet airplanes and fly 10,000 miles (300,000 kg/CO2) or go on liveaboards that use palm biodiesel (cut down forests to make oil), or go on small dive boats with 2 cycle engines." Yup. We are extraordinarily entitled in all our explorations, when many of the folks who host us are just trying to make a living.

That looks perfect to me! It's just a very average photo in my opinion.

The water looks really good. Maybe oversaturated on the turtle. Here's my take. This was shot with a Olympus TG-5, RAW capture, likely set for underwater color balance existing light. Processed in Lightroom, as below.

I use Lightroom. I quite like the cloud-based storage. The subscription, not so much. It's probably a reasonable deal for what you get, but I, for one, love saving pfennigs where I can. There's enough editing ability, too, and I try my best to attain images in-camera. I do have Photoshop for those rare occasions when I use RC Astro Backscatter Eliminator. I create a new date and tag for each folder, try my best to keyword images, edit in LR and export for whatever I need, usually pretty small JPEG files for social media. Thanks @Dave_Hicks for your work flow ideas. You've given it a lot of thought.

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Aloha and welcome @STEFAN HAMMARROTH That's a wonderful website!

I read the instructions this time, and uploaded RAWs rather than JPEGs. I did see your request about testing this weeks ago, but I see this time you got a better response.

@Jurgen I uploaded some recent photos. One strobe, several photos underexposed. Some small files, and others larger, all JPEG.

Jurgen - That's fascinating. There are people here with a much better understanding of the physics involved with making a still photograph underwater, but I, for one, would love to dive with less gear. I've spent decades shooting above water, and have used artificial lighting for specific photographs. Interestingly now, those same strobes are needed far less because of advances in sensors and imaging. My brother, while on assignment as a photojournalist, doesn't carry a strobe at all. I still do, however. A safety blanket perhaps. Lighting underwater is quite a throwback to how we used strobes in the past: to light darkness in an era of slow film and to recapture color. If we can do all that without strobes - and we're getting close - I'd be all for it. What can be lost, though, is the look that can be achieved with strobes. And I also like the challenge of capturing an image on scene rather than working it to death in post. Best, Craig

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This was sold on Scubaboard @BrightSea

Thanks for being so responsive Pavel! The 11078 trigger circa 2023 does indeed allow for HSS at position 7. It fires my Marelux Apollo S strobes full power and syncs the A7c at 1/4000th second. I lose TTL and manual strobe adjustment, so I will opt for a firmware update.

Well, Mr. Jackson, it appears you know all the heavy hitters on this site! Aloha and welcome!

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Aloha and welcome @Pelagic I'm sure you'll find many opinions here on cameras and systems to explore, like this thread: https://waterpixels.net/forums/topic/3901-decision-made/#comment-28242

I'm currently using a UW Technics (UWT) trigger after having tried the Turtle, this for a Sony A7c in a Nauticam housing. My best recollection is that I bought the Turtle for TTL with Inon Z240s but switched to the UWT for HSS in 2023. The UWT has been a solid performer. I didn't like having to charge the Turtle with the micro USB and fiddling with its tiny connectors. The UW Technics was a pain to install, but I like using CR2032 batteries, which last quite a long time without fuss. The trigger activates when you turn on your camera. No plugging in little bits or having to charge the trigger. The bad news was that the UWT, in 2023, couldn't perform HSS with the Backscatter Hybrid Flash, and I had sold the Turtle in the meantime, when I likely shouldn't have. Now I'm reluctant to change $500 triggers once again. I still don't have HSS, though I just purchased a Marelux Apollo S and it's supposed to work. I've contacted @Pavel Kolpakov at UW Technics, and I'm keeping fingers crossed for a fix.

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