Making photographs in caves is certainly a challange for the photographer. No light to see how the picture will be, you must illuminate everything. It is not like taking photos outside, each picture is unique, depending on how many flashes you use and places you position them. After taking the photos and seeing them at home you will discover new things you did not see when you where there. Speleophotography can be simple and complicated in the same time. It is reasonably simple when you have the experience, but can be complicated to use all your equipments since you are in muddy and umide places and often you don't know where to put your feet. Althow these things make you test yourself. Remember that each time you go underground to make photos, you learn something new.  

What you find in this page is the result of my experiance in making cave photographs. I hope you will learn something here and why not, send me suggestions for this page.

The first thing to say in cave photography is that you are not in normal situation. All that sorrounds you is not clean, everything is humid and wet and in many cases you find mud everywhare. Also sometimes you must cross lakes, go down vertical shafts on ropes. It is easy to understand that all this makes it difficult to carry your camera, along with flashes, tripods and other accessories. You need a bag to carry all these things and a waterproof case where you put your camera and flashes. 

Cameras used in cave photography can be easy to identify from others. They are not so clean. Put it in your mind, a camera that goes with you underground can never be clean as those you use normally. It is important that you know this. Infact, I have second hand cameras for speleophotography, they are half price and you know if it breaks, it will not be so expensive to replace.

Other problems you have is the dark, yes all you see is what your lamp allows you to see and this means that when you look through the viewfinder, you don't see anything ore only the small light of your friend.