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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Category: Diving
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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 of Captivating Macro Portraits
There is more to Captivating Macro Portraits than just capturing a macro size subject. The real art behind a captivating[…]
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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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Meet the Coconut Octopus, the Cephalopod World’s Genuine Nut Job
Encounters with this comically clever species of Indo-Pacific octopus are not only entertaining they also make fantastic photo subjects. Humans[…]
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Blackwater Photography
Blackwater photography has become one of the hottest forms of underwater macro photography due to rich and highly varied subject[…]
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