I took a bunch of underwater pictures with my brother Mike's Nikonos. I was using 800 speed film and a SWAG (silly wild ass guess) for exposure. Mostly I got really over exposed pictures. Bummer. When shooting at Fitzroy Is., I used an exposure of 1/30th by ~5.6. We were at around 30ft and the visbility was about 10ft. Since I was shooting at such a (way too) slow shutter speed, most shots were blurry. Seems I'd forgot some basic photo skills! Also I wasn't using the view finder so many shots are framed pretty poorly. Nothing like a great lost opportunity to drilll those skills back in!
These shots were from the outer ribbon reef at the Quicksilver pontoon.
Here I shot at 1/125th, f8. Ah. Much better!
Pronghorn coral in the foreground, and I'll call it letuce coral just below that fish that was posing for me.
I was amazed in all the various shapes and colors of the coarl. The top edges of the letuce coral seemed to almost glow the way the caught the light.