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Hi Steph,
Now I'm no U/W camera expert (believe me the photos from my one and only attempt can prove that!) but apparently the trick is to get the flash as far from the lens as possible so a slave unit seems to be what you need - backscatter is the same problem that gives you red-eye on normal photo's.
If you have enough ambient light then covering the flash should help but you might want to try getting hold of a slave unit that you can attach to your camera or you could even get your buddy to shine his torch on the subject - but even lighting and a good quality (HID?) torch, and a patient buddy, would really be needed 4 best results.
Of course if the water if full of sh1t then even the best equipment may not help.
Other general tips which you may already know: Get close, really close (to minimise the amount of water,and therefore less sh!t, between you and it ) and aim up from below your subject to get as much use of the ambient light as possible.
HTH
I just wished I remembered all this when I went out with my camera in St Abbs.  |