ABSTRACT
Beginners to underwater photography often fail to get close to a subject, and as a result many take the picture from too far away. Not only does the subject look tiny in the finished picture, but the distance involved also reduces the effectiveness of flash, resulting in poor colour, saturation and sharpness. There is no point in blaming the camera, the flash gun and the make of film, or the quality of the digital camera and its number of megapixels. Getting as close as physically possible is often all it needs to produce a marked improvement in results, as long as you can do this with due consideration for the underwater environment – a subject covered in detail in Chapter 7.
