My UnderWater shots with IXUS400

[carl.h]

Here are some pictures I took with my IXUS400/S400 last week on a diving trip.

1) Macro shot of a strange thing. Shot with flash ofcourse.
http://home.no.net/shape01/pictures/Dykning2.jpg

2) One more macroshot.
http://home.no.net/shape01/pictures/Dykning3.jpg

3) no comments... ;)
http://home.no.net/shape01/pictures/Dykning4.jpg

Any thought about these?

[juno]

the third image seems to be the most unusual sea creature i have seen... LOL !! j/k

those shots were nice. im sure you have more to share.

pictures like these makes me think i gotta have one of those underwater housings too.

[cA70]

Really like the shot with the starfish, got no idea on what the first thing is or meant to be. But there is a cool little blue star fish next to it.

[carl.h]

Hi folks! Well, the first image is a picture of something that looks like a form of plant...but im not sure. Its about 1decimeter big. Really cool!

[henkbos]

Good try, but you need to apply some processing here. The pictures seem way too red, which is strange. Normally underwater shots are too blue. Were these taken at night or at a low depth?
You can easily fix the color in Photoshop.
Also apply some sharpening as #1 and #2 are not very sharp.
The color in #3 seems to be too green. I guess your mask is black and yellow? Try to get that color back and the rest of the pic will follow.

[carl.h]

HenkBos: Wait a minute now...
I could ofcourse change the colors with a redution of the redness, but that would change the reality since it is the correct colors on the picture. I was really astonished over the colors that were there when the flash went off.

About my mask and snorkel, the color is really green. Its like signal-green, and the colors of that picture is correct aswell :-)

Ok, you are right about one thing...the sharpness. The first picture of the "plant" is in pretty good shape. If you take a close look, you can see small "feathers". This makes it pretty hard to get the right focus on the object. The starfish is a little out of focus but hey, it was the first underwater pictures I ever took.

[carl.h]

HenkBos: Wait a minute now...
I could ofcourse change the colors with a redution of the redness, but that would change the reality since it is the correct colors on the picture. I was really astonished over the colors that were there when the flash went off.

About my mask and snorkel, the color is really green. Its like signal-green, and the colors of that picture is correct aswell :-)

Ok, you are right about one thing...the sharpness. The first picture of the "plant" is in pretty good shape. If you take a close look, you can see small "feathers". This makes it pretty hard to get the right focus on the object. The starfish is a little out of focus but hey, it was the first underwater pictures I ever took.

[FLL Diver]

Nice pictures.

To the comment that the pictures look too red, you'd be surprised with the colors that you find underwater, especially when you use a flash. The starfish really is that red.

That first picture looks like a fireworn of some sort, but not one that I've seen before. The picture wasn't taken in the Caribbean, where's it from? Pacific? Red Sea?

Marc

[carl.h]

FLLdiver: :-) You¨d be surprised. Not caribeean, and not the red sea. Its taken in Norway where I live.