Here is another shot which I took during Kurt Amsler’s photo workshop in June. This Lockheed P38 Lightning wreck is located pretty close to St. Cyr-sur-Mer at 38m depth.

Two tricky things with this shot: (a) at 38m of depth you don’t have much bottom time and the brain admittedly works a little bit slower than on the surface, so everything needed to be preconfigured before jumping into the water. (b) Due to the positioning of the wreck and time of day, we needed to shoot against the rising sun.

Hence I chose ISO 800, which is higher than I’d usually go for – for a number of reasons:

• to compensate reduced light at this depth
• to be able to shoot with faster shutter speed and
• to use less flash-power in order to reduce haze of suspended particles

In addition I set the camera to f/13 to have well enough depth of field and a 1/200 shutter speed to get the sun under control.

Two 150Ws flashes were used at 1/4 power. Both were positioned vertically above the fisheye-lens to get as much room as possible between the flashes and the light sediment haze on the sandy floor.

It was a fantastic dive and photo experience.