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▲ 33 r/underwaterphotography

Strobes recommendation 🙏 + Manta shot from last year.

Hi all! I'll soon have some budget and I'm looking to get a single strobe setup for my Sony a6700 to do wide angle photography. I'll get the new seafrogs flash trigger for it too.

Currently have my eyes on the Kraken S160, basically because some photographers I like use it. VERY soft, wide beam angle (140°) with a diffuser, 1.6 sec recycle time (I guess that's really good?), convenient USB C charging. It's labelled as GN16 but I've seen lots of wide angle sample photos, so I guessssss it's not an issue? Available for 615$ in my local retail store. Pretty costy but somewhat acceptable.

Sea & sea YS-D3 also looks solid. With a diffuser the light beam is pretty soft and even according to a backscatter video. GN33, 1.7 sec recycle time. However it seems to have been discontinued and doesn't offer the USB C charging feature that the Kraken offers, so I'll have to bother with getting the batteries in and out. Available for 467$ quite significantly more affordable.

Will not consider getting 2 strobes atm as I do plan to get a new lens on the budget as well.

Thanks for reading! Please let me know your thoughts.

u/StopBanningCorn — 3 days ago
▲ 320 r/underwaterphotography

Really thankful for the long end of my lens

A6700 + 10-20mm f/4

I'm bad at getting close to my subject + sometimes really enjoy the gentle look thanks to the subtle compression. Most of the time it's because I can't get close tho lol.

u/StopBanningCorn — 10 days ago
🔥 Hot ▲ 15.2k r/TheDepthsBelow+2 crossposts

Photo I took that makes me wanna strangle myself.

We were very lucky to witness this scene: a shark swimming below a school of barracudas. Just as the shark aligned perfectly with the fish, which would've created some epic photos, what did I do? My dumbass decided it was time to tweak camera settings and bang I fucking missed it. I'm surprised I survived natural selection because holy cow I have the IQ of a worm.

Edit: I do agree this is a cool photo. I'm just saying I wish I could see the comp I had in mind with my own eyes 😅

u/StopBanningCorn — 12 days ago
▲ 124 r/underwaterphotography

This shot is growing on me

Couldn't get close to the turtle so this was one of the panic clicks of frustration. Thought it was trash but I'm starting to feel like it's not that bad.

u/StopBanningCorn — 14 days ago
▲ 3 r/EnglishLearning

Do both work but just have difference emphasis? As in the second one emphasizes the fact that it took place before the timeframe we're looking back at (is at even the right preposition?)

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u/StopBanningCorn — 15 days ago
▲ 3 r/EnglishLearning

I'm sure the second one is grammatically correct but sounds kinda formal. Is the first one correct?

Sorry for spamming a lot lately. I just randomly think of questions about English quite often.

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u/StopBanningCorn — 21 days ago
▲ 4 r/EnglishLearning

Even when I watch stuff in my own language I need to turn on the subtitles to understand/keep up, so I'm looking for something where each line doesn't require too much thinking. Currently watching Peaky Blinders and I'm barely following anything even with subtitles on 🫠

Did think about listening to podcasts, but I really just don't have enough attention span.

Thanks!

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u/StopBanningCorn — 24 days ago
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The account was created in 2022 and has never been used until a few minutes ago when I received my first every payment for my photo editing service.

It was 100$ deposit of the total deal of 700$. After receiving the payment I was told I had to provide further details to have access to the money. I gave my personal ID and details of the transaction ( despoit of my editing service), and a few minutes later I got the email saying my account was restricted.

Wtf? Please help me.

Edit: Turned out I wasn't 18 yet when I created the account. Fuck.

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u/StopBanningCorn — 24 days ago
▲ 3 r/EnglishLearning

I watched it with subtitles on and was able to understand most of the narration. However sometimes the characters would suddenly start speaking very fast. Combined with the accent I couldn't really keep up. I was able to understand the overall story because there was also context and visuals, but I sure missed a lot of smaller details.

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u/StopBanningCorn — 25 days ago