Tubbataha reef review or the meaning of being an underwater photographer

Jackie is clearly a better (topside) photographer than me so obviously when I bought my DSLR with the housing, I asked her to give me some advice on how to operate it. I wanted to have “plenty of practice” before I took it underwater and so I started playing with it, mostly under natural light. After struggling with a few techniques I wanted to master, I humorously told  Jackie “I wish I could just see something, point the camera at it and shoot it” to which she wisely replied “Well, this is a DSLR. If you wanted a point-and-shoot camera you should have bought just that.” Genius. So...

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