Tips for shooting underwater

The Dive From Filters

Filters are essential because if you dive, as you will encounter water, light waves will be absorbed differently according to the color of the water. Diving filters therefore possible to correct the blue waters like green waters.
The filter is not used to add color, but to absorb radiation from the complementary color to hers and let all the others, allowing to rebalance the colors. For example the color red is present to a depth of 5 meters. Deep red gradually disappears from your images.



- Orange filter filters the blue, accentuates the readability of reds and yellows
 - The red filter filter cyan (mix of blue and green)
 - Magenta filter absorbs green.
The filter is to use natural light, preferably with the sun in the back rather than in front of you. It is advisable to shoot down as the sun may give an unwanted color to the image. Filters are used to film or photograph subjects from afar. Do not use flash or light in these conditions of shooting.
Choice of colors according to the diving depth and color of the water:
 - Pink filter is used for snorkeling and shallow depths up to 5 meters.
 - The orange filter is used for the blue waters between 6 and 18 meters
 - The red filter is used for the blue and blue-turquoise waters of 5m approximately 15 meters the brightness.
 - The magenta filter is a perfect accessory for filming in lakes and reservoirs of fresh water or salt water which owe their green algae that inhabit them.
On this site you have the choice between:
 - Buy our adapter and supplement it with a filter sold on the site that we recommend as the filter "SRP URPRO CYD" whose quality is recognized. Its shaped dome avoids deformation on the sides. You can also buy the "Dyron" filter, cheaper than the SRP but it is flat. The "HD HERO Dome" is itself the most expensive of the three.
 - Buy a complete kit with 4 color filter to be ready to dive in all waters of the world. Our filters are made of PMMA and of good quality. You have the option to purchase, for the extreme edition box, the Flip V4 or le Flip V5
, more complete.
 - Buy our extreme edition box adapter rectangular filterand buy filters of your choice.

The following is one test by Yeap31160 with a red filter for the first and for the second filterless

plongée filtre rouge

Lighting In Aid Of Lights

If you want to take pictures or film about a fish, it is best to use lights that directly illuminate the subject.
The lighting is necessary, it is under water the main light source and restores fish and other underwater plants their true colors. There are lamps that can be fixed directly on compatible housing. The must is a dual headlight mounted on articulated arms. Indeed, by removing your headlight optical axis of your machine, you will optimize the image quality for airborne particles in front of your goal will not be illuminated.

Here are our turntables AEE and GoPro.

The Polarizing filter

The polarizing filter will allow you to bring out the colors of the sky, water, clear reflections of glass surfaces and better expose the snow.

Here is the procedure to operate on the polarizing filter holder:
1. Before use, first remove the protective film on both sides of the filter.
2. Locate the rounded corners of the filter 3 and especially the 4th is right.
3. The filter once placed in the filter holder, the right corner should be placed on the upper left side facing you. This is to improve the polarization of the light.