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Diving in Llanquihue lake Chile

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Diving in Llanquihue lake Chile

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  1. Hi, last month I went with my wife to dive to the south part of Chile for a weekend.

    We went to the small city of Puerto Varas to dive in the waters of the lake Llanquihue.

     

    The plan was to dive two days, one dive each day, and be in the water as much as possible without exceeding 15 min of decompression with 100% O2.

    The result was two dives of two hours each, max depth of 21 meters, water temperature 14° C (that was nice, we were expecting 10° C as usual).

    The longest dives so far for me and my wife. We were with a friend that lives there, his personal record is three hours, maybe next time we'll break that record. :D

     

    Because of a big storm days before our arrival the visibility was not the best, you can get 20 mts of visibility there in a normal day, we had with lucky 8 mts.

     

    We did the first 40 min with natural light, the rest was night diving. During the day you don't see life there, only fallen trees. For our surprise we found a lot of life during the night, lot of different fishes and they were not afraid to get very close to us. The problem was that I don't have an aiming light for my camera, no shots during the night for me. ;)

     

    I was able to take some shots before the sun light was gone.

    I made one big mistake, I forgot to clean the wet lens after the first dive, the shots are from the second dive and all the shots have a nasty spot. :D

    I like to try different things every time I get in the water, this time I was trying to illuminate the foreground in a more natural way, this was hard because there were no too much natural light available.

    The model in the pictures is my wife.

     

    Hope you enjoy some dark and cold shots.

     

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  2. I like these shots. I think you succeeded in making the light look natural :)

  3. I like these shots. I think you succeeded in making the light look natural :)

     

    Thanks, in these conditions I'm pushing my little camera to its limits.

     

    At 1/30th f3.2 and ISO 100, without been able to increase the ISO because at 200 my camera really sucks.

    And on top of that the camera takes 5 sec to save each shot because I'm saving in RAW.

     

    This is why my new Nikon D7000 is on its way. The housing will have to wait until October.

     

    My Canon A590IS has been a great tool for learning how to handle low light conditions, but is time to move on.

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