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Attached are a few photos that I like but my opinion tends to be biased by my recollections of the dives. I would be interested in receiving feedback on composition, quality of photo, and suggestions for editing. All photos were taken with an Olympus C-8080, Nikonos 105 strobe, heinrich converter and edited using Adobe Elements 4.0. Thanks for your input,
What could be improved is composition.
The first shot needs to be level. You can see the slanted horizon in the back ground. Really distracts from the image. If you couldn't get a level shot could you make this one straight with software or cropping?
The second one is better but could you show more of the barracuda?
The third shot would be good if there wasn't that annoying object right in front of the face of the moray.
Not bad shots but that would be my critique.
Agreed with what said above, the exposure and colour is good but you need to concentrate on the framing and get the subjects clear with out cutting them off. Keep at it though 
What could be improved is composition.
The first shot needs to be level. You can see the slanted horizon in the back ground. Really distracts from the image. If you couldn't get a level shot could you make this one straight with software or cropping?
The second one is better but could you show more of the barracuda?
The third shot would be good if there wasn't that annoying object right in front of the face of the moray.
Not bad shots but that would be my critique.
The octupus was moving fairly fast so I didn't think about being level. I also have a turtle picture I like that has the same problem so I will try to concentrate on this issue more in the future. I rotated the first shot and did two crops; one maintaining the photo ratio and the second trying to get as much of the octupus as possible. Are these better? Which do you perfer?
Attached is second shot of moray without the sea fan but I didn't like his pose as well in this one.
I have a few shots with more of the barracuda in the picture but they don't have nearly as good resolution.
Thanks for your help.
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