My Shots

David Fleetham & Mariana Rodriguez · Issue 134, Sep/Oct 2023 · pp. 66–68

Products mentioned: Canon R5, Sigma 70mm f/2.8 macro, Ikelite dry-lock housing, Ikelite 230 strobes, Sony Alpha 7s2, Nauticam housing

My Shot 1 by David Fleetham Do you have a favourite shot or an image/s which made a dive special. E mail yours with some text to peter@uwpmag.com and yours could be the next My Shot/s Digital cameras have changed the way I shoot and think underwater. Back in the film days I would have passed on wasting one of my precious 36 frames on this Hawaiian swimming crab, Charybdis hawaiensis, because it only had one claw and was therefore not a desirable representation of the species. But with my Canon R5 I have thousands of frames available, so I pulled the trigger on this one clawed subject several times. Once back on my computer I saw the tiny claw that was being regenerated that I did not notice while I was back in the darkness of a cave where the crab was scurrying away from my lights. Hawaiian swimming crabs reach 3 inches across the carapace and are also found in the Tuamotus and Society I…