I'm new to u/w photography. I just got myself a Nikon CP-5200 with WP-CP2 housing. Most of the pics I took u/w turn out greenish except the ones I shot at about 1 feet away with internal strobe. How do I get the nice blue background that I see on many beautiful photos?
Really appreciate your help on this.
Oh, one thing though.. there's no manual setting on my camera. It has a
-2.0 to +2.0ev setting that increases/decreases exposure, spot/matrix metering.
Where are you doing your diving? If you dive in e.g. northern temperate waters, then the water is rather green in itself, and this is the colour you will capture from the natural light. You can circumvent it to some degree by shooting shallow and steeply up towards the surface (thereby capturing the colour of the sky). At depth, all natural light will be green. Nearby objects can be strob lit and display whatever colour they have. So put simply: blue water diving - blue water background and green water diving - green water background.
Another option is to change the color when you edit the picture. But lately I've been leaving well enough alone ... if the water is green that's the way my pictures are.
Sample Green
Sample Blue ... I like Green better and I suspect God does too or he/she would have had me diving in blue water.
