Digital Diving

Canon digital compacts ready for the big blue

Brighter, more vivid colours

"Daylight" mode is generally good for shallow water as deep as 5 or 10 meters or for flash-assisted macro shots. For deeper water, or when flash-assisted macro mode produces an overly strong blue tone, use the "Cloudy" setting to reproduce bright colours without the blue bias. The beautiful blues in this shot have been bought out by setting white balance to Cloudy.

Canon Powershot S30 1/1000sec, F4.0, Exp. Comp. -0.7EV, White Balance Cloudy, Flash Off, Program AE, Zoom 35mm (based on 35mm format)