Re: Look Ma, No Flash

Dan Bracuk wrote:
> Last week I tried something new - new for me that is. I took all my
> photos with natural light only. The good news is that the good ones
> were much better than they would have been with flash. No shadows and
> no backscatter.

Natural light for me always produces the best looking photos. I like
the 'Nemo' atmosphere you get with natural light.

>
> Next trip, manual f-stop and shutter speed settings. Anybody got any
> suggestions for something that might work? The camera is a 4
> megapixel Sony point and shoot.

With my experience of Sony P&S cameras, P100 mainly, I find that the
best results come when you set the exposure compensation at -1.0eV. The
Sony's, and most others, tend to over-expose with underwater scenes.
The Sony's are probably the least tweakable with very few aperture
settings that are user selectable and limited white balance control.

The best way to get the most out of shooting available light is to use a
filter to balance out the colour spectrum a bit. Have a look at
http://www.magic-filters.com/ to see what can be done without a strobe.

jon