Apparently I’ve been doing a lot of scuba diving lately because this is my second post in a row with photos from underneath the cold waters of Puget Sound.  I went out this time with a “red enhancement” filter and a “close up macro” filter.  The red filter accomplished nothing but screwing up my usually spot-on auto white balance…while the macro filter allowed me to get closer to my subjects, but narrowed the range of where focusing could happen to where I missed most of my shots.  So between me screwing around, it just generally being dark outside, and the water being murky, I took 170 shots but kept like 20. Not a very good kill rate.  On the plus side, I feel braver when I have my camera to keep a safe distance between me and anything I’m scared of…such as fish, crabs, seaweed, rocks, the ground, water in general, old pilings, and occasionally very sneaky flounder.

And that’s all I got for color photos.  It was so dark and my white balance was so screwed up that I just gave up and converted everything else to black and white. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love monochrome, however it should be done for a reason not just because black and white photos look so “artistic”. No choice this time though, otherwise they would have been monochromatic green and that looked terrible.