Photography Thread Revival

[jborg]

I love seeing all the different takes and techniques! Here are some of mine from last year. I use my phone in a housing and no lights, so it's wide angle and ambient lighting, and sometimes the colours aren't the best. Often I work around this by falling back to black and white and going to the feeling of the dive, or a pleasing or humourous shape of things rather than details:

 

[jborg]

Sometimes I think color works even if it mostly blue:

 

[EpiDiver]

Welcome to SB! And nice pics. I especially like the one with the diver and bubbles, my favorite type of photo: natural light, includes diver, captures a seascape as the unaided eye sees it, conveys the "feeling" (here, of a lone diver descending, about to commence exploring).

rx7diver

Thanks! Yes, I like the one of the diver with the bubbles for all the reasons you eloquently described, particularly the feeling piece. While it is nice to document sealife, capturing a piece of the allure and drama of the dive helps create a connection with the image and tell a story. Without some type of drama in the image, things can start to look a bit clinical.

Sometimes I think color works even if it mostly blue:

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Great images! I will also convert to B&W when the lighting makes color correction challenging. It can also work well with flat (low contrast) images because you can often crank up contrast higher in B&W and still have the image work. But generally I try to keep color in there as it adds to the feeling of being there. I don’t have strobes, so all my stuff is natural light or occasionally with a flashlight.

 

[Green Frog]

I’ve posted to a more limited audience in the SeaLife Station sub Forum, but here are a few from Nassau a couple of months ago. They were shot with a bare SeaLife Micro 3.0, then downloaded to and cleaned up in my iPad. I took some pix of divers but really concentrated on my first love, fishies! Here are an obligatory Reef Shark, a Porkfish, a Bluestriped Grunt, and a Striped Burrfish (?).
Enjoy!

 

[rx7diver]

Thanks! Yes, I like the one of the diver with the bubbles for all the reasons you eloquently described, particularly the feeling piece. While it is nice to document sealife, capturing a piece of the allure and drama of the dive helps create a connection with the image and tell a story. Without some type of drama in the image, things can start to look a bit clinical.

I have been diving solo almost exclusively for a number of years. I find it difficult to convey to non-diving friends (even non-solo-diving friends) exactly what this feels like. Your pic captures this feeling very nicely, I think!

rx7diver

 

[MaxBottomtime]

My favorites from 2023, so far.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

 

[Jonnyola87]

Pretty honored and excited to have Ikelite accept my submission for featured customer. Big step for me in my photo journey. Big thanks to everyone who's shared tips and tricks on these forums over the past few years.

Featured Customers | Jonathan Miller The Magnificence of the Ocean

"I want to use my photography to spread and grow interest in the ocean and its magnificence, in the hopes that more people will take its health seriously." Jonathan Miller is a photographer - both underwater and topside - as well as a Physicians Assistant based out of Rhode Island. Jonathan has...

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[RIHappyDiver]

Pretty honored and excited to have Ikelite accept my submission for featured customer. Big step for me in my photo journey. Big thanks to everyone who's shared tips and tricks on these forums over the past few years.

Featured Customers | Jonathan Miller The Magnificence of the Ocean

"I want to use my photography to spread and grow interest in the ocean and its magnificence, in the hopes that more people will take its health seriously." Jonathan Miller is a photographer - both underwater and topside - as well as a Physicians Assistant based out of Rhode Island. Jonathan has...

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Congratulations! That’s a fantastic achievement, and I look forward to seeing your photos elsewhere. Please let us know when more of your photos are published.

By the way, I couldn’t help but notice that the lobster was the only photo from this area. Of course, 3 foot vis doesn’t make for good photos, .

Erik

 

[Jonnyola87]

Congratulations! That’s a fantastic achievement, and I look forward to seeing your photos elsewhere. Please let us know when more of your photos are published.

By the way, I couldn’t help but notice that the lobster was the only photo from this area. Of course, 3 foot vis doesn’t make for good photos, .

Erik

Thanks a ton for the support!
Sad, but true! I do have some local shots in the archives I'll be working on in the near future. This lobster was up in Rockport and wanted to throw down, unlike most who tend to back away. Couldn't miss a shot like that.