Shooting Wide-Angle: My Underwater Photography Setup

By f4b1781b-73c2-4496-8d51-8bbf938fae44 2026-06-10T12:43:37Z

Wide-angle is the genre that makes you fall in love with underwater photography — big walls, schooling fish, whale sharks. After four years and three housing iterations, here is the setup I have settled on.

## Housing and dome

I use an 8-inch glass dome port with a 0.6× wide-angle wet lens screwed on the front. The glass dome corrects corner sharpness that acrylic domes lose on modern high-resolution sensors.

## Strobes

Two strobes, triggered optically, positioned at two o'clock and ten o'clock from the dome. Bring them close enough to avoid backscatter but far enough to side-light the subject.

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