I've recently been working a lot in the studio doing portraits and it go me thinking: could this setup be used underwater?
ok so its applications would be limited to still things, like nudies and coral, but has anyone ever tried playing with reflected light under water?
The setup im thinking of is similar to a studio shot using a single strobe (any others only for back lighting) and a reflector placed opposite to fill in the dark areas.
I'm just curious to see what kinds of results this could yield.
Mike
I think that a second strobe is generally easier to control (particularly in terms of power) than a reflector, given the diffusivity and attenuation (and colour shift) of light as it goes through water. Many folks have theorised that a mirror, white persex reflector etc could be used for macro (e.g. p291 De Couet & Green, 1989) - although I have never seen anyone using one effectively.
I have built and used soft boxes on my Inon strobes. These two pictures, for example, were taken with them:
