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As a basic rule, most lenses provide their optimal sharpness with an aperture setting that is two full stops higher than the widest possible aperture of the lens.
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Let’s get started. Here, I have a photograph of a squid (see Image 1), as taken in 2008 with a Canon 40D camera, a 60mm macro lens and one single strobe.
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Not much can be done with an underwater image that is covered with “white snow,” but to get rid of a few backscatter dots is no big deal.
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Even though white balance settings or adjustments are still “golden key no. 1” in fighting color casts, in some cases, a finer adjustment is necessary in postproduction.
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The fine-tuning of our underwater images in postproduction requires a closer look at colours and a skilled photographic eye.
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So, what is exposure? In photography, exposure is the amount of light that reaches your camera’s digital sensor, as determined by shutter speed, lens aperture and scene luminance.
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Some may wonder where the sense is in making a human being the main subject of an underwater image, whilst the underwater flora and fauna have so much beauty to offer.
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Master the light and you will master photography. Indeed, “drawing with light” is the meaning of the Greek origin of the word “photography.”
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It is not a new thing. It all began in Pisa, 817 years ago, when a very clever mathematician was thinking profoundly about numbers… and also about rabbits. His name was Leonardo Pisano Bigollo, better known as Fibonacci.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the mysterious and challenging world of abstract photography. Yes, it works underwater, too.
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Reviewed by Michael Lawrence
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Some readers may surely be shaking their heads now, wondering what is the point of depicting a colorful underwater scene, or a sea creature, in black and white?
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For this reason, let’s keep things simple. Utilizing composition as the key element of underwater photography, I would like to take you through a couple of dives, sharing some ideas of composition styles that could be used in specific situations.
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However, there is the dilemma. What does one do after everything within reach has already been photographed? That’s the point we’ve reached now.
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