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The beauty of Cape Town stretches beyond the shoreline and beneath the waves, providing divers and underwater photographers a lively and fascinating playground with a beautiful backdrop to match.
Read moreThe fine-tuning of our underwater images in postproduction requires a closer look at colours and a skilled photographic eye.
Read moreWhen doing underwater photography in pools, I have always been irritated by the inherent “feeling of a pool” in the resultant images. What does one shoot in a pool? People!
Read moreSo, 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.
Read moreSome 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.
Read moreAs we watched, the cuttlefish disappeared under a discarded coconut shell and reappeared. Opo motioned to me that it was laying eggs.
Read moreMaster the light and you will master photography. Indeed, “drawing with light” is the meaning of the Greek origin of the word “photography.”
Read moreIt 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.
Read moreThis huge karst system of underground caves and rivers has a combined length of about 350km and consists of around 7,000 cenotes.
Read more— Humpback Whale Calf, Vavau, Tonga
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the mysterious and challenging world of abstract photography. Yes, it works underwater, too.
Read more● Plan your still shots as well as video clips. Think ahead. Avoid shooting random images and video clips.
● Capture still images in DNG or RAW format if your system allows.
Read moreI suddenly felt like I was in a neon video game with the underwater world transforming into vibrant greens, reds and yellows. A bright, glowing light snaked across the sand, and on closer inspection, it was an eel that was vivid green.
Read moreSome 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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