Some underwater stuff
Blackwood
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I took some shots on a dive last saturday, and the natural colors look kinda boring and flat. Until I invest in a strobe, my local dive photos will probably all suffer from the same flaws.
Example:
Anyway, I don't generally care for the over processed look, but I decided to go for a surreal, harsh, moody look with this series that would otherwise be throwaways.
I darkened the 'skies' for a sense of tunnel vision, as well as some interesting color choices and selective saturation.
Anyway, thanks for looking.
Example:
Anyway, I don't generally care for the over processed look, but I decided to go for a surreal, harsh, moody look with this series that would otherwise be throwaways.
I darkened the 'skies' for a sense of tunnel vision, as well as some interesting color choices and selective saturation.
Anyway, thanks for looking.
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It's... different. For one, water tends to absorb red light. Many shooters use a red filter, but I don't have one. (pretty bare bones, eh?). External strobes are the only way to get good color representation when you're deeper than about 15 feet in good visibility (and shallower in bad).
The onboard flash tends to cause backscatter (those white spots visible in the last few shots). External strobes can help with that.
You're at the mercy of the environment which in most cases is moving. Unless you plant yourself on the bottom (which I don't), you have to be very careful to avoid motion blur.
Really I don't have much experience doing it. A couple of my dive buddies shoot SLRs and HD video rigs, so I've only shot underwater a handful of times. I've read some interesting things like aperture affecting color (not sure I quite understand that one).
PP work you've chosen to apply to them.
Rest assured, while this wreck is in the Pacific, it's not quite that far south... or west.
But through the magic of SmugMug, the link still works even though when you navigate to it through my site it's http://www.hypercontrast.c<wbr>om/Underwater/Ammo-Barge-2<wbr>010-05/12153285_ewSA9#8643<wbr>80279_gjxWb
Thanks for the comments!