This is two of my fav pics.

The first one is from malta, the wreck in the background is the tugboat rozi.

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/7...ozi20ae.th.jpg

And this one is from Egypt, taken just south about the brothers... those are Yellow tale barracudas.

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/1...udas5zc.th.jpg

That first one is beautiful, did you take those?

YES!

:D Yeah, it's a great pic...

Wow that is a cool camera, I just looked it up...shutter speed up to 10 minutes!!! Mine only does 16 seconds and that gets some pretty good night shots, I bet you could get some fantastic shots at night. Have you tried it?

Sorry Neil, but I don't follow. perhaps your post wasn't for me though.. :)

I looked at the information on the image to see what model camera you have, I looked it up and apparently you can set the shutter speed to 10 minutes. If you set it on a tripod outside on a clear night you could get some amazing shots of the stars. Have a look in the manual for your camera if you don't know what I'm on about lol

I've got shots like this

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...hy/night02.jpg

With a 16 second exposure, so with 10 minutes that could be amazing.

Now I'm with you!
Yeah that camera is quite nice, although I think I am growing out of it... i want to be able to use fish-eye lenses and such stuff! :D

The pictures I take underwater are all manual, due to the fact that the measuring don't work underwater.. :D and I have external (sub strobes) speed lights, and because I can't afford TTL I've to work it manually :).

I use two Ikelite DS 50 sub strobes for the light, it works fine, especially when you want the depth in the picture such as the one from the Rozi.

I got a great pic from Luxor in Egypt, where I used a Nikon D70, set to shutter time 1/16..(I think!) just as you advised, it sooo bloody hard to keep the camera still though.

Here is the one from Luxor

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/5...07110wu.th.jpg

I wish I could afford one of the really fancy cameras, but for now mine is pretty good.

I use my fathers cameras, it's much cheaper that way. :D

The most important thing is that you can use manual settings on a camera, the rest you can live without.