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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Tag: Underwater Photography
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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