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JAS

JAS

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Water does interesting things to color. Particularly, it absorbs csrtain wavelengths starting with red and progressing through the spectrum to orange, yellow, green, blue. indigo, violet. So, if you have strong surface light, you can get good colors down 3m/10ft. However, by the time you are below 15m/50ft, everyting is pretty muc browns and greys unless you shine light on it.
Photo 1 is a large anemone colony in about 4m/14ft of clear water with sunlight.
Photo 2 was a more cloudy day and I was at about 15m/40ft do no light penetration and all browns and grays.
Photo 3 shows why UW photographers use photo dive lights or flash to get the color visible. This was my dive buddy for the day and you can see the color in the beam of her light while the reef outside the beam is much more muted.
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Butlerkid said:
These images really help show how light and depth affect colors underwater! Nicely done!
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Thank you for the ongoing positive comments. I was able to get 550 dives in the Red Sea from Aug 2013 to Feb 2021 with a long gap due to Covid shutdowns. In the end I had to retire for medical reasons. The docs said I could dive, but I did not want to place that burdn on my dive buddies. Most of those dives were on a 2km stretch of the coastline just north of Jeddah. The reef wall was about 25m/90ft from the shore entry pont and we had easy access down to 40m/130ft. It was amazing and there was always something to see. Plus I got a few wreck dives in. Took over 100,000 shots, cut that to 12,000. Now down to 7900 and continuing to cull. Target is to post to a portfolio page I am building and prepare a couple of books. More posts to follow as I clean up the files.
 
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Joe - great to see what the sea can reveal.
Took over 100,000 shots, cut that to 12,000. Now down to 7900 and continuing to cull.
This puts a smile on my dial - it is something we all suffer through! 😁
 
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