I had a full weekend of underwater rugby photography. It is enjoyable, but also a bit scary to be in the middle of large, fighting men (wearing too expensive photo equipment). It would be nice to see if someone else have some photos of UW rugby, UW polo or UW hockey. I really do not see them too often.
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Underwater Hockey
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But I have to said that taking the picture is also a exhausting sport.
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I agree taking pictures of them under water is a kind of risk sport, at least for your equipment.
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Gorgeous!
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Hi,
newbie here, from the sport side.
UW photography is very important for us (UWR/UWH) because it is the only way we can show people our sports as long as there is no plexiglass pool designed to host these games.
There is a photographer on our team, she took great photos, but she has no equipment, neither housing, nor scuba gear, we used a large PVC bag to protect the camera and she was working holding her breath. I was laughing at the questions at the registration asking about the housing and strobes and what not. Wish we had the money for that! Anyway, please enjoy her work, I think she is really talented.
Two pictures I wanted to start with :
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Any feedback, tips, hints are welcome! Thanks.
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Given the circumstances, great shots, not to mention video! I think, the skills are spot on, the only way to make it better is from the gear side (which may need further skills to handle...).
Full scuba gear here I think just gets in the way, maybe a 5L tank with a single regulator could help to stay closer to the action - in case of trouble one can just swim that 2m up.
Photo gear certainly needs some $$$ invested, the cheapest meaningful way I see is an RX100 in meikon housing + a fiber controlled (fiber cable < 2$ from ebay) strobe (also 2nd hand from ebay...)
Hi,
newbie here, from the sport side.
UW photography is very important for us (UWR/UWH) because it is the only way we can show people our sports as long as there is no plexiglass pool designed to host these games.
There is a photographer on our team, she took great photos, but she has no equipment, neither housing, nor scuba gear, we used a large PVC bag to protect the camera and she was working holding her breath. I was laughing at the questions at the registration asking about the housing and strobes and what not. Wish we had the money for that! Anyway, please enjoy her work, I think she is really talented.
Two pictures I wanted to start with :
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Any feedback, tips, hints are welcome! Thanks.
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Thank you!
The housing is the most urgent purchase, not only because the bag seems a bit risky to trust when it comes to sealing the expensive camera, but also because it's so large that it wants to float atop constantly.Our Christmas video and 2 more pictures :
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Yeah, handling in a bag is also a pain. My very first UW photo experience came with a DicaPac "body bag" - I dared to put my camera only once in it...
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The equipment needed depends on what you want to do with your photographing.
I guess I all in all have spent about foutrhy hours photographing UW - rugby.
Some of hte results are presented here: https://runehaldor.foto.no/cgi-bin/portfolio/layout1/show_kategori_index.cgi?x=1&serieid=7116&brukerid=731&sortorder=2&limit=30&offset=30
If you're taking photos in the surface while the players are exercising, a ewa-marine or similar bag might be completly ok. If you want to swim a bit deeper, a decent underwater housing might be a good idea. A few meters below surface without using strobes manual wite ballance about 9000 K is a good start.
If you are taking photos during a match, my experience is that scuba equipment is a good idea. The easiest is to get air fronm an extended regulator with the bottles on land. Normally this equipment is just aviable for the referee, so full scuba equipment is needed. Quite often, I find the side with the best natural light and wait for the one team to attac. Especially male teams are quick and you need strobes to get sharp pictures. It is also a good idea to observe a few matches or to play for a while yourself to understand enough of the game to know when to shoot.
Rune
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Not photo, but video :
UWR penalty training in Budapest
