Seadebbie

Thank you Peter, I think that will help. We'll see as I leave for the Bahamas on Saturday for a week on the Carib Dancer. I'll let you know. Thanks again.

This is what I struggle with. Maybe because the water is further away than the main subject matter.

Thank you Peter. I think this will help. I seem to get purple water after about 40 feet too. If I white balance every ten feet or so on the way down it also works better. Sometimes I can get pretty good white balance like that. If I don't do that and just try at deeper depths….. well I'm not satisfied. I seem to struggle a little more with different things on this 550. More than I did with the HC9. In some ways I feel like the HC9 is a better camera. Just didn't really like dealing with the tapes. When I get back from vacation I'll let you know how I did.
Thanks again.
SeaDebbie

Hi everyone,
I started diving in 2004 and have nearly 900 dives completed. I knew early in my diving that I would like to take photos underwater but told myself I would not until I had 100 dives. I was witnessing many new divers with cameras bashing the reefs. I thought they looked out of control. The underwater photographers that were in control were amazing with a lot of diving experience. I started out with a Fuji F810 in an Ikelite housing and now shoot video. I started out shooting video with a Sony HC9 in a Gates housing and now shoot with a Sony XR550v in a Gates housing. I shoot in the Great Lakes and abroad. I mostly shoot wide angle with ambient light and have had very good luck and a great teacher in Tim Blanton. He has a shop on Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras at a resort called CoCo View. I manually white balance a lot underwater using mostly the sand or light patches of reef of scuba tanks always with the proper filter for the kind of water I am shooting through. Looking forward to hanging out here on Wetpixel. My husband, Aqua Paul has been a regular here for a couple years now.
Keep blowing bubbles,
SeaDebbie