On location

Just add water

1 Housing

The camera sits snug and dry inside the soft, watertight housing. You compose, focus and press the shutter through the clear material.

2 Flashguns

Two flashguns are placed in watertight bags and clamped to stands. They are set to optical slave, so that they are triggered by the Nikon’s pop-up flash.

3 Camera settings

We set manual mode, 1/200 sec, f/10 and ISO160, with the flashes in manual on full power. We jammed the pop-up flash open with a piece of foam.

4 Diffuser panel

Whether above or under water, light from a flashgun is hardedged. Fire the frontal light through the diffuser part of a five-in-one reflector to soften it.