Trip Video - Maldives, February 2020

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Except for Oceanic Whitetip. Unfortunately they don’t seem like to hang around in Maldives, at least I haven’t seen any YouTube videos about them in Maldives.

Nice one with clear video! Looks like a bottomless area to me ... Did you use a red filter?

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From your earlier post, it looks like your color grading environment was not optimal. I found it helped to use only D65 white light behind the monitor or overhead and I also happen to have a whiteboard to glance at when looking away from the monitor. I make sure the overhead white lighting is turned on to ensure the viewing conditions are not too dim before I adjust color/brightness/contrast. Then I create a LUT for the UW footage to reuse with all other clips. Once a LUT is created I can work in sub-optimal (dim) conditions late nights - to do other stuff like position a subclip in the timeline sequence, or work on timing audio tracks etc., provided I don't touch the color grading bits except in ideal lighting conditions.

That said - I am still learning video editing and yet to come out with my first proper scuba video.

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I'm not going the way of LUTS. I'm just going to try and be more disciplined monitoring my RGB and Luma waveform displays.
 
Nice one with clear video! Looks like a bottomless area to me ... Did you use a red filter?

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Thanks!

No, I didn't use red filter. It was a bright noon day with typical excellent visibility of Red Sea & the Sharks just swimming near the surface. What a perfect day to shoot a video. I did have a video light turned on.
 
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