Thx You dr. Alex Mustard!

Dear Alex Mustard

I want to say thank you very much for helping me to get a better lighting using 10.5mm

I really appreciated it

do you still remember that,

Last week i posted a question about lighting 10.5mm using 2 ys-90 auto.

After reading and learning your guidance, i decided to give it a try last sunday.

Last sunday i went divng with D80 + 10.5mm

i set my strobes to FULL POWER on both sides.

F8 1/125 manual Mode

I was focusing more on the arm position...

the visibility was really bad. It was only around 5meter (15 feet)

and here are the result that i got from fallowing Alex's tips

(90% of the pictures that i took last Sunday was super ugly hahahahaa. i got nasty back scatter effect on most of my pictures )

I have a question for the last pic.

On that last pic i was using F16... it turns out the result was underexposed. my flash didnt have enough power to lit F16. ( adjusted the level a bit, to compensate the underexposed)

I really want to take Wide angle pics using F16-19 ( to get a nice sun ball effect!)

if i only use F8, then i pointed to the sun. The pics turn out very ugly! i cant get the sunball effect!!!

please help me, how to get a nice sun ball effect.

Is it true that i can only get the sun ball effect IF i'm using F16 or F22 (small aperture)

Which is means i need to but the new S&S Ys 250 GN 32.

Thx you

Andree

Nice pics.

15' vis is really bad? That's a good day here in New England!

If the subjects are stationary you could try adjusting the shutter to 1/80 if you want the higher f-stops. That may rectify the "underexposure" you are suggesting occurred.

Cheers

Todd

You are welcome, Andree. Nice pictures.

Alex

If you want to stop down, the only way to get a good exposure on the foreground is with more flash power. It may be that your flashes are not strong enough for the f-stops and distance you want to shoot at.

Cheers

James

I like the last shot, though the sea fan maybe a little underexposed. Try boosting your ISO, assuming your strobes are at full power.

Where in So Ca did you shoot these?

Hi all ^^

Next time i'll try to slow down the shutter speed to 1/30 or even 1/15

since the subject is not moving at all. For all of these picture, i set my Ys_90 to full power.

There pictures were shoot at province, Lampung (South of sumatra), 30 minutes by airplane from Jakarta

it's not famous at all

i went diving at least 2-3 times in a month. Since the diving in my province is very cheep (1 full day of diving, 2 tanks, boat and lunch, only cost me aroud US$20-25)

Andree

NOTE: I think i'll buy S&S YS-250 Pro very soon hehehe, i'm getting addicted to shoot wide-angle)