marpacifica
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OK, I don't profess to be an expert on the technical aspects of underwater photography, but here's a suggestion based on something I learned the hard way.
After I uploaded and ordered several sets of photos to an online photoprocessing service, the pictures came back darker than what I remember seeing from my camera LCD and PC. Turns out that both my LCD and PC's brightness settings were set a bit brighter than what the photoprocessor was set to, so after a bit of finetuning I came out with the right calibration.
Then it happened again AFTER the calibration. After racking my brains, this time I figured out that it was related to my editing photos in the middle of the night without any lights on, so my eyes thought the photos were too bright during the editing, and the edited versions came back slightly darker than expected.
So avoid these two mistakes and you're two steps closer to that perfect shot of the giant squid partying with Elvis, Jackie O and Bruce Lee in the Marianas Trench.
My two pesetas.....
After I uploaded and ordered several sets of photos to an online photoprocessing service, the pictures came back darker than what I remember seeing from my camera LCD and PC. Turns out that both my LCD and PC's brightness settings were set a bit brighter than what the photoprocessor was set to, so after a bit of finetuning I came out with the right calibration.
Then it happened again AFTER the calibration. After racking my brains, this time I figured out that it was related to my editing photos in the middle of the night without any lights on, so my eyes thought the photos were too bright during the editing, and the edited versions came back slightly darker than expected.
So avoid these two mistakes and you're two steps closer to that perfect shot of the giant squid partying with Elvis, Jackie O and Bruce Lee in the Marianas Trench.
My two pesetas.....
