Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Underwater Digital Camera Pictures
Want to see awesome examples of underwater digital camera photography? Check out this monthly underwater photo contest HERE
Monday, December 03, 2007
Tips for Underwater Photography
Found this great article on PopPhoto.com with tips for underwater photography from award winning photographer Mark Snyder. I thought the underwater digital camera lighting tips including a diagram were pretty helpful and wanted to share! Here are some of the highlights:
• Shoot upward. Photographing from below a subject makes it look large and real -- shooting down makes it look smaller, and it can get lost on the background.
• Shoot close. "Twenty-four inches is an outside working distance," Snyder says. Water can simply suck up lighting -- flash falloff is much greater underwater.
• Shoot for the small reflection in the eyes. Catchlights are important for any wildlife photography, but underwater they're particularly important for dimensionality.
Main strobes (A) cast the outer rim of the cone of light on subjects. Fill (B) also feathered and set to -3 EV. Contrast strobe (C) aims at right angle to lens axis for contrast and texture. Nikon D2x, 20mm f/2.8 AF Nikkor lens in Nexus housing, Inon Z-220 strobes. Exposure, 1/125 sec at f/5.6, ISO 400.
• Predetermine lighting setups. While sometimes you may have a cooperative subject that will stay still long enough for you to adjust lights, sometimes you won't. Snyder will find an underwater area similar to the one he wants to shoot at, and set up his lights there.
• Shoot upward. Photographing from below a subject makes it look large and real -- shooting down makes it look smaller, and it can get lost on the background.
• Shoot close. "Twenty-four inches is an outside working distance," Snyder says. Water can simply suck up lighting -- flash falloff is much greater underwater.
• Shoot for the small reflection in the eyes. Catchlights are important for any wildlife photography, but underwater they're particularly important for dimensionality.
To view the full article with all the underwater digital camera lighting and other underwater photography tips click HERE
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Predive Preparations For Your Underwater Digital Camera Batteries
Whether you are using your underwater digital camera or not, all digital camera batteries have these same characteristics:
1)Using the LCD screen instead of the viewfinder will use up the battery life quicker.
2)Battery performance decreases and the battery life is shortened in lower temperatures.
3)Batteries are discharged even when not being used.
Since you will be using the LCD screen and not the viewfinder throughout the dive, the batteries will drain quicker. Also, if the water temperature is colder than the temperature outside the water, your battery life will be shortened. Both of these problems can not be avoided but having extra sets of batteries will keep you from missing that perfect underwater photo! When not being charged, batteries lose power every day in storage, so always charge batteries the night before the dive.
1)Using the LCD screen instead of the viewfinder will use up the battery life quicker.
2)Battery performance decreases and the battery life is shortened in lower temperatures.
3)Batteries are discharged even when not being used.
Since you will be using the LCD screen and not the viewfinder throughout the dive, the batteries will drain quicker. Also, if the water temperature is colder than the temperature outside the water, your battery life will be shortened. Both of these problems can not be avoided but having extra sets of batteries will keep you from missing that perfect underwater photo! When not being charged, batteries lose power every day in storage, so always charge batteries the night before the dive.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
