The Dives and Our Underwater Friends!

We dove the day after we arrived to Bonaire. It was an easy orientation dive at Calabas Reef. We didn't take pictures during our first dive because it had been a one and a half years since our last dive; we wanted to take it easy and regain our bearings. During our second dive at Calabas Reef, we decided to take the underwater camera out for some test shots. We used an Olympus C-5060 with the Olympus PT-020 underwater housing. Initially, our camera settings were: 100 ISO, slow flash, and apeture priority mode. However, it was clear that we had to adjust our settings as the Bonairean sun came in and out of the clouds and the white sand resulted in many blown pictures. We adjusted the ISO, exposure, and even turned off the flash, but without an external strobe, most of our pictures turned out very bluish. See the untouched photos here. Still, Suzanne was able to tweak the colors using Photoshop 7, which resulted in some gorgeous images. Not bad for our first try!







Stoplight Parrotfish












Trumpetfish













Brain Coral












Juvenile School masters












Tube Sponges















Christmas Tree Worms













We also had issues with the autofocus being sluggish and a sticky telephoto switch on the underwater housing. As a result, many of our pics were blurry. I'll talk more about our camera setup later. In the mean time, Suzanne will continue to work her Photoshop magic and I'll continue to post new pictures when they're ready. Hope you enjoy the pics!