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: Photography
In this department of the Underwater Journal, the theme here will be to post features articles on various techniques for underwater photography, as well as sharing some of my personal thoughts on specific photographic equipment I use.
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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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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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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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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Using Rear Curtain Sync
When implemented properly, the technique of using a camera’s slow shutter speed paired with its Rear Curtain Sync mode can[…]
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