This week in Cairns

Pics from this weeks dives

Santa even made an appearence - Yes he had the full suit on minus the beard.

Regards

Gary

#3 and #5 are great but the colors seems pale and unnatural.

The water was very milky, vis was about 10m. They look ok on my monitor apart from the light blue water, which is the colour it was, do they look faded to anyone else? Maybe my monitor needs calibration.

Cool pics Gary.

Like the Santa pic.

I'm down here in Townsville, vis is bad here as well.

Hi Gary,

I've faced the same challenges with poor viz on my last couple of dives. It gives the water and surroundings a bland look. If you try and bump up the strobe you end up lighting up the garbage around the subject. To me it looks like you salvaged the day with some wonderful compositions of a great subject. You can mess with the sliders in PS. Try turning up the saturation and contrast a little. Increases the noise but might deepen the blue and bring out some background color.

Great shots; I added a touch of red to take out what I see as a little cyan cast

They look the same on my monitor, guess it's time to spend some money on a calibration tool i think.