Looking for comments/feedback on photos

[jmsenger]

Here are a few photos I took in the Maldives last summer. It was my first trip with my camera (G12 in Canon housing), and most of the shots came out poorly, as expected. These are some of the better ones, a few of which have had minimal white balance adjustment. I'm looking for feedback on the photos, composition, color, etc., so I can learn and improve when I go back again this summer. Thanks!

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[Searcaigh]

From your comments I am assuming you don't have a strobe, my advice is to buy one and forget about messing around with white balance underwater, you are going to miss some shots if you don't have one and a strobe also freezes the action too. That said, your mantis shrimp pic looks good, but your scorpionfish and lionfish shots would look a lot better with a strobe.

Try to move in closer with the zoom too or physically if possible, the banded shrimp is not really drawing any attention it only occupies around 12% of the total frame.

Scorpionfish portraits can also be stunning and full of colour, it is usually not difficult to get real close up to them as they are generally fearless.

Try to get some practice locally, I notice that you are in Doha, not dived there but I am guessing like the UAE part of the Gulf visibility is cr@p and some macro or close up will be all you can manage.

 

[jmsenger]

Thanks for the feedback. First thing I did when I came back from the trip was buy a strobe. And yes, diving over here isn't that much different than over there - cloudy at best.