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All images taken with Canon S40, WPDC300 housing, or oly c5060, and Sea & Sea YS90DX strobe. Images taken at St Thomas USVI,Curacao, Catalina Island (Dominican Republic), and Caye Caulker Belize.
Copyright E Finkelstein, M.D. Do not reproduce images without permission.
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Anemone 1
Anemone 1		 Anemone 2
Anemone 2		 BandedButterflyFish.
BandedButterflyFish.		 Blenny 1
Blenny 1
Blenny 5
Blenny 5		 Blue Tang
Blue Tang		 BlueTunicates
BlueTunicates		 CleaningStation
CleaningStation
Coral
Coral		 Coral 3
Coral 3		 White Spotted Filefish 1
White Spotted Filefish 1		 Damselfish
Damselfish
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Santi Bravo Figueras PM reply 17-Mar-2011 21:09
A top class gallery.
Mark Fellows PM reply 08-Nov-2009 04:53
This gallery is intense! Awesome job!
paige coats 08-Oct-2007 19:29
thank you so much you helped me do a project for school. See we had to make a biome and my partner and I choose a marine biome and had to include a food chain. I did my research found out the animals in one of the many food chains but still needed photos of the animals thats whe I came across your site. You had two of the sixteen photos I needed it might not seem like much but no one else had the photos( it would have been three had you had a tiger shark) but thanks anyway YOU ROCK!!!
Sandi Whitteker PM reply 25-Jul-2007 02:41
Super shots! And you even know their names! V
Kathy Pilgrim PM reply 26-Apr-2006 00:01
What admirable work you have done with this gallery. You obviously know how to take photos in very difficult situations. Voted!
Michael Lee - Hong Kong 03-Jan-2006 16:21
Excellent shots! One of best I ever see. Keep up the good work. Let us share your colourful world.
Guest PM reply 13-Jun-2005 17:00
Very nice gallery! I too have the Oly 5050 setup, and I love it!!
Eldar Kadymov PM reply 11-Jun-2005 16:31
Hi Eli, I managed to vote for second time for your magnificient gallery. This is simply unbelievable on how you manage to get such shots under water with PS45 ( or even with any more sofisticated camera ). I could not get that image quality even when I shot aquariums :-). Keep on diving and stay cool !
Eldar Kadymov PM reply 28-May-2005 16:01
One of the best underwater shots ( if not the best ) I ever saw !
Eddie Ling PM reply 22-May-2005 18:10
Awesome gallery! Keep up the good work! show us the under water world!
EB PM reply 02-May-2005 03:38
I love your underwater pictures. I think the underwater world is fabulous. Nice work. I hope you get more of these pictures,i will defenitly be checking back.
-Chantal
Serena Bowles PM reply 23-Aug-2004 10:25
Super stuff, especially like the puffer fish.
Matt Reichel PM reply 24-Aug-2003 04:14
Your underwater photographs are stunning. Excellent gallery, you got my vote. Keep up the great work!
Eli Finkelstein PM reply 18-Apr-2003 00:37
You can use it in fall automatic mode and it will work just fine. I personally used auto white balance, shutter priority mode, and an external strobe. See my equipment gallery. There is no single right way. There has been all kinds of information posted on the web about digital underwater photography. A good primer is on the Canon website:
http://www.canon.co.jp/Imaging/uwphoto/index-e.html .
You can also follow the discusions on the wetpixel or scuba board websites:
http://www.scubaboard.com/f3/s
Some good general advice:
1. Get low. Shoot images at the same level of your subject. Photos taken from above are usually less effective
2. Get close. No matter how powerful your strobe is, your photos will be sharper and more colorful up close due to attentuation and dispersion of light by water.
3. Let critters approach you, if possible. Otherwise you will have photos of the backsides of fish.
4. The photos depend more on the diver than the equipment. The best underwater photos Ive seen were Ellen Muller's gallery here on pbase. These were taken without an external strobe, only a dive light. She has the knack of getting very close to critters without spooking them.
http://www.pbase.com/imagine

S40 specific issues are:
The Canon gets very hot in use. This drives any moisture in the camera into the housing where it condenses on the cold glass lensport. I finally found silica gel packs small enough to fit into the housing, and my camera didnt fog doing outdoor photos in a blizzard, so the silica gel can work. The housing comes with antifog which leaves a soap film on the lensport, and decreases resolution. I didnt like the antifog. You put it on the lensport, not the lens.
2. The protruding lensport will block the internal flash from reaching the lower right portion of the field at macro settings. At non macro distances you are fine. You are better off with an external flash, anyway.
3. With the Sea and Sea strobe I did most of my photos at F8 for maximum depth of field.
4. The batteries were good for about seventy minutes, almost but not quite two dives. Somebody sells a noncanon battery with a 25% longer life, I dont have the link.

Good luck to you and show me your photos when you get them!
Guest PM reply 16-Apr-2003 13:34
Hi Eli,

I am also using a Canon S40. If time and condition permits, I am planning to take my first diving lessons in mid June. I would like to take my S40 with me to get my first underwater shots. What's the trick of taking underwater shots? Do it work equally in fully automatic mode, or any special adjustments that I have to take?
Thanks in advance for your kind advice.

HMS
Chet King PM reply 17-Feb-2003 14:39
Very nice photos. I like your underwater shots.
Guest PM reply 16-Feb-2003 07:02
Absolutely incredible! awesome work!!
Eli Finkelstein PM reply 07-Dec-2002 14:38
You did a great job with your images in the swimming pool. I cant wait to see what you get when diving!
Erkki Nieminen 07-Dec-2002 09:05
Very nice pictures! I have just bought Canon S45 camera with waterproof case, and I am very delighted to see that my thought of using it with slave flash is a reality. Some photos from the swimming pool without flash can be viewed here: http://sivut.koti.soon.fi/eni1960/Canon%20S45%20pictures%20from%20the%20pool/index.htm
Eli Finkelstein PM reply 14-Nov-2002 02:02
Wow, you have got some amazing photos! As far as diving in Canada, you have my respect, Im strictly a warm water diver. I wont dive again for a while, its so hard for me to get free. But I will post some of my better topside photos. Best Regards, Eli
Kim PM reply 10-Nov-2002 04:34
Great pics, Eli!!!
I'm very jealous of people who get to dive in the crystal clear waters you do - I'm usually limited to 5-10ft visibility in Atlantic Canada. You can peek at my pics at www.pbase.com/kiml
You're in my "Favorites" now - I'll be watching for new photos!!

Kim
Eli Finkelstein PM reply 02-Nov-2002 14:32
Thanks Matt, the admiration is mutual. Your gallery is outstanding. I especially like the deep blue seascapes, such as http://www2.photosig.com/viewphoto.php?id=230259
Best regards, Eli
Matt Himmelstein 02-Nov-2002 01:11
Eli, you have a great collection of u/w images. I saw a comment of yours on PhotoSig and followed you link. You should post some of them there. You can find my shots at:

http://www2.photosig.com/userphotos.php?portfolioId=24377

Regards,

Matt
andy 16-Sep-2002 18:20
Eli: thanks for sending your pix. You have some beautiful shots. I'm at work now and don't have time to really look at all of them now, but I'm going to email the home and check them out on my large monitor at home tonite. Keep on diving and keep on shooting. Andy
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