Hi guys! This is officially my first post to Wetpixel! Well, I've recently purchased a rather inexpensive Sealife Reefmaster Mini with the (Digital) SL960 Strobe. We live on Oahu and are flying over to Kona this weekend to do the Manta Ray Night Dive.
I've never been on a night dive...How should I take the pictures? I don't really have any manual settings, should I use the strobe? From what I understand its pretty light down there with all the lights on, so i'm not sure what settings I should use! Any comments and suggestions would be appreciated! Thank you in advance!
Hi guys! This is officially my first post to Wetpixel! Well, I've recently purchased a rather inexpensive Sealife Reefmaster Mini with the (Digital) SL960 Strobe. We live on Oahu and are flying over to Kona this weekend to do the Manta Ray Night Dive.
I've never been on a night dive...How should I take the pictures? I don't really have any manual settings, should I use the strobe? From what I understand its pretty light down there with all the lights on, so i'm not sure what settings I should use! Any comments and suggestions would be appreciated! Thank you in advance!
Just saw your post, you must have travell already. How did the pictures turns out ?
While I really don't know anything about your camera rig, but I will say night dive pic aren't a lot of different then day time. The natural light generally aren't affecting much for underwater water pictures except you shoot up during day time looking for the sun beam. A poweful storbe is what's matter. It will lit up and through water ....
Mercy, you were setting yourself a challenge! How did it go?
Manta Rays will come quite near to divers - as you may have discovered - if you stay still and let them come to you. A wide-angle lens (I'd suggest something like 12-24) should do the trick. But lighting the scene, especially at night, is pretty tricky. Strobes really do not travel very far through water; and I suspect the strobes firing might scare off the rays.
