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Aloha and welcome @Alanthediver

Aloha and welcome @Magicknipser !

@faebuk Sounds like you set up everything right. Can you trigger the AOI flashes by triggering the fiber optic sensor? You can use other flashes in test mode aimed at the sensor. Is light getting through the fiber optic cable? Also the quality of the cable can be an issue with some flash units. Is the flash set for pre-flash or looking for a pre-flash that your A7c doesn't do? Another thing to note, about TTL, is that TTL may not work with this combination of trigger and flash. Hope this helps. Craig

Aloha and welcome @faebuk

Aloha and welcome @WESpics

@Dave_Hicks is one of the great tinkerers on this site. He might have a better answer to your dome balancing problems.

Nice websites @ericstrege and @GeckoSub Some wonderful images there David. https://www.davidhogsholtvisuals.com/sardines

@Thomas Pettersen That looks nice. I tend to shoot more macro here in Hawai'i but I've seen friends use lead tape and wheel weights on domes to balance their rigs.

Aloha and welcome @Daniel Poh Nice photos!

Aloha and welcome @SwampTiger90 ! There's lots to learn here. It never ends, which is a good thing. craig

@ericstrege You can get a lot out of the TG series so I wouldn't be in a huge hurry to move to a different camera. I wish that OM Systems would update the thing but it's a winning formula for them so far.

Aloha and welcome @Rgoluch ! Craig

Good stuff @ericstrege ! You got light on your subjects. The black and white works.

@bghazzal <<<I actually found 55 mm flip holders designed for lenses, so I now have the ambient filters on a flip mount on the lights (!) and can switch easily 🤙 I'm using homemade ambient filters based on the formula discovered by Dreifish, which involves mixing Lee and Rosco filter gels, plus a bit of frog’s spit and some mandragora under a full moon 😁>>> I remember you going through all the machinations with GoPros. You seem to have worked it out. I really like the idea of the flip diopter holder so you're not locked in to a particular way of shooting. Another thought I had was just using a portion of a Rosco gel to warm up or cool down a light without having to cover the whole head? Above water, I had, on occasion, used just a small piece of red or amber gels to warm up a strobe, and I would just eyeball it. These days it's so much easier than carrying around a color temperature meter. As for the ULCS sled - very cool. But, man I hate hauling more stuff into the ocean! Good stuff Ben! Craig

Thanks Rich. That's great. Pass on that some of us would love a digital Nikonos. Just sayin'.

Despite being vertical 🤪, that's nice work @bghazzal ! Are you using Kraken filters? If the industry could make temperature adjustable video lights like their above water counterparts that would be a nice thing, eh? What are you using as a tripod?

Aloha and welcome @robertop01 !

Aloha and welcome @Giorgio Pattarini ! Your expertise is welcome here!

@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.

Aloha and welcome @Peter Vanek

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.