The Power of One: How a Single Strobe Can Still Rule
Here’s a question every underwater photographer has asked themselves: Can you capture great wide-angle and macro photos with just one[…]
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Category: Diving
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Hamlets Courtship Dance
As the sun dips toward the horizon, two blue, palm-sized fish gather at the base of a coral head 25[…]
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Battling Backscatter: Our Underwater Nemesis
The Problem and the Acceptance As underwater photographers, we constantly battle backscatter—that frustrating phenomenon where light from our strobes or[…]
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Nauticam’s MFO-1: Game-Changer for Macro?
One of the biggest struggles in my macro photography has been getting a sharp, in-focus image of hyperactive subjects, like[…]
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Captivating Marine Life Portraits with CFWA
In my last column, “The Art of Captivating Macro Portraits,” I touched on some of my techniques to capture macro[…]
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Striped Marlin of Magdalena Bay
The morning hunt began under clear skies, with a light ocean chop and a north wind. Resting on the boat[…]
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The Art Behind Captivating Macro Portraits
There is more to captivating portraits of small macro size subjects than just getting it in focused. The real art[…]
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Positive Side of Negative Space
Thumbing through a favorite dive magazine, you can’t help but notice that a good number of the feature stories open[…]
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Mandarinfish Twilight Rendezvous
Catching a mandarinfish courtship in action during a dive on Magic Pier Dive with Wakatobi’s Dive Yacht Pelagian. Sunset was close[…]
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Tips for Photographing Mandarinfish
Having the best of the best underwater camera setup money can buy is not the key to getting great mandarinfish[…]
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