Is underwater photography difficult? Actually, no—at least, not to any significant degree when compared with any other discipline of photography. Each single stage of creating an underwater photograph, if seen in isolation from the rest, is not so tricky. It is the sum of all its parts, as well as mastering the whole, which can appear confusing at times.
The Intuos Pro Creative Pen Tablet from Wacom is a graphical tablet that can make a noticeable difference in the postproduction workflow of underwater images.
On 24 June 2020, I woke up to the news that after 84 years, Olympus was selling off its camera division. As an underwater photographer and long-time user of Olympus camera gear, my feelings were that of betrayal, again. Here is some history on my experience with Olympus, and my thoughts about the future.
The new Extreme Pro CFexpress cards by SanDisk and Western Digital offer transfer speeds of up to 1700MB/s to read and up to 1400 MB/s to write.
The judges were tasked with selecting 1st, 2nd and 3rd place images from hundreds of entries in 10 categories. A 2020 World Oceans Day Theme winner was also selected by the organizers.
The new NA-1DXIII underwater housing by Nauticam is designed for the Canon 1DX Mark III SLR camera, which is considered the flagship of the CANON EOS
series.
The Supercharger is an add-on for the Prime and PRO series of underwater flashguns made by the Slovenian manufacturer Retra.
Designed for PRO level image, video and 3D editing, the ColorEdge CG319X 31.1-inch (79cm) monitor from Eizo supports 99 percent of the Adobe RGB and 98 percent of the DCI-P3 color spaces.
It was a close competition and as always a difficult one to judge but Tanya’s image captured the essence typifying the experience encountered on our minke expeditions.
https://www.mikeball.com/photo-gallery/photo-year-competition-2019-2020/
Mike Ball Dive Expeditions run expeditions to the Coral Sea and the far northern Great Barrier Reef between Cairns and the Cape York peninsula.
The UWL-95 is a wide-angle wet lens specifically designed for compact cameras with 24mm lenses. It is available with M52 or M67 threads and offers a 95° field of view underwater.
A color cast is a tint of a particular color, usually unwanted, which affects the whole photographic image evenly.
