How can you be so happy when your photos suck?

Craig Reynolds · Issue 53, Mar/Apr 2010 · pp. 52–55

Products mentioned: Fantasea Remora, Nikon P5100, Fantasea Nano focus light

The learning curve for underwater photography has been steep ... and I’m still on the up-slope. Last weekend I took a Dhow up the eastern side of the Musandam peninsula with a semi-regular dive buddy Juraj for a 2 dive day. This is the second outing for my newly purchased Fantasea Remora flash and I was hoping to try out some techniques I’d been reading about. I used the strobe for the 1st time on our last dives and, frankly, the results were very disappointing, not because the Remora is lacking in any way (from my limited knowledge of these things it seems a good unit) but because I didn’t actually know what I was doing. So, having sifted through the badly exposed, out-of-focus, disappearing-fish-ass dross I produced last time, I realised I needed a serious dose of RTFM and spent the next few weeks with my nose buried in an UW-how-to photo book, combing the net and also time on the marv…