Does this sound familiar...

You bought a new camera and an underwater camera housing to go with it. You couldn't wait to go diving and start photographing the exotic marine life, but now you are back above the surface the results aren't quite what you were expecting. If so, you are not alone. Read on...

These are tips that will help you improve your underwater photography experience. Buying an underwater housing for your camera should be just the beginning of the adventure. Follow our tips to get results that you will be proud of.

Tip #1

Do All of The Fish in Your Images Turn Blue?
Reveal Their True Colors!

Since water tends to absorb color and light, the deeper you go, the darker and bluer your images will turn out to be. Because long wave light is absorbed first, in shallower depths you lose the red and the orange colors, and in deeper water, you might even lose the yellow and green colors (see diagram). This explains why a fish that appears so colorful in a Fish Guide Book might look as if it was totally blue in your images. How can you solve this? By using an artificial light source that retrieves the colors and light to your images.

Underwater Flashes & Strobes

Underwater Flashes & Strobes professionally improve the color in your underwater photographs. Since light and color are absorbed even in a depth of 1 meter, using an external flash is recommended in all depths, during daylight and night dives.

In addition to retrieving the colors, underwater flashes also enhance images by producing creative light angles on your objects, assist in reducing the amount of backscatter in your images and prevent the shadowing effect caused by using the camera's internal flash when accessory lenses are mounted on the housing.


Slave Strobes

Slave strobes are popular flash units to be used with compact digital housings. These slave units trigger in sync with the digital camera’s internal flash and synchronize by a small slave sensor built in the strobe body.

Fantasea Flashes & Strobes

Fantasea Line offers a selection of excellent underwater flashes, specially designed for compact digital housings. These flashes feature several pre-flash settings to serve the need of all compact digital cameras in the market, and therefore are compatible with almost any housing, including Fantasea, Canon, Olympus, Fuji, Sea & Sea, Sony, Kodak, Casio and more.