Anacapa trip photos and videos
Aug 11
Our July 16th Anacapa trip was a big success. We have 4 great dives, and saw bat rays, giant black sea bass, harbor seals, huge schools of blacksmiths and senoritas, and more. Here is a video from the trip that our guest Walter Marti made for us: Along with some underwater...
Todd Winner’s Wednesday Photo – Reef Squid and Salt Pier
Feb 20
Text and image by Todd Winner. This has been one of my favorite images for a long time. In fact, it was taken nearly nine years ago. It demonstrates a style (foreground – background) that I constantly use in many of my wide angle images today. Often it’s not enough just to have a pretty image of a fish, we need a secondary subject to keep the viewers attention and add some depth to the...
Todd Winner’s Wednesday Photo – Skeleton Shrimp
Feb 06
Image and text by: Todd Winner One of the things I love about macro and supper macro is being able to show a subject in a way you never could with the naked eye. In fact, many of our super macro subjects can hardly be seen without magnification. We often catch some of these subjects in our normal macro shots only to discover them when viewing the image on a large screen. (Photography bycatch.) It...
Story Behind the Shot: Black and White Sea Krait
Jan 15
Black and White Sea Krait, Raja Ampat, Indonesia; Canon EOS 7D, EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye lens, 2 Ikelite 160 strobes; ISO 100, 1/200 sec, f /8.0 As divers, we often get so caught up with the subjects we find on the reefs that we forget about all the incredible photo opportunities near the surface. Shooting close to the surface is one of my favorite places to shoot. You can capture reflections and...
Fantastic Shots with the Sony RX100
Oct 11
One of our readers, Kevin Stokell, recently sent in a couple example images taken with the newly released Sony RX100. Kevin lives and works in Curacao, in the South Caribbean, where he works as a PADI Divemaster and has plenty of opportunity to get out and shoot. Here’s the details on his shots: The Banded Coral Shrimp “The shot of the Banded Coral Shrimp (above) was taken at the...
Stunning Nauticam RX100 Video
Oct 05The new Sony RX100 camera has been performing really well, exceeding everyone’s expectations and beliefs about what can be achieved with a compact camera. This video sample below, by EunJae Im in the Philippines is a perfect example. The camera not only takes great quality, detailed images, but excels with stunning video capabilities as well. Enjoy the video. it was shot with the Nauticam...
New Spin on a Common Subject
Sep 24
Sometimes finding a subject that inspires you to lift the camera up to your eye is challenging. I recently took my 105mm macro lens and SubSee +10 close-up lens with me to Anacapa Island, and I found my inspiration in a tiny, but common subject: a Christmas Tree worm. The colorful feeding plume was a perfect subject to use with my SubSee +10 diopter. I used auto-focus to focus on my finger...
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