Add a Diver for Perspective
AS AN UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHER, it is relatively easy to capture the attention of your audience if you share a picture of a whale, shark…
Behind the Lens
A Pattern of Rule-Breaking
DISCUSSIONS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHIC composition are often filled with comments about “the rules.” You have probably heard of some of them. There is the rule-of-thirds…
The Thin Line
PRIOR TO A RECENT TRIP to the Philippines, I was reviewing some of my images of yellow-lipped sea kraits. While pleased with several, I…
Avoiding the Blue Water Blues
TAKE A LOOK AT THE PHOTOGRAPH that accompanies this article. When I shared this image at a recent meeting of the San Diego Underwater…
A Whale of a Shot
Avoid using an extremely tight frame or your shots could end up like this (see photo in inset). THE MAGICAL QUALITIES exhibited by whales capture…
Imagine That!
I am a big believer in the process of envisioning a photograph, at least in rough terms, and then seeing if I can create…
Focus In On Focusing Options
One significant advantage of fisheye and other ultrawide-angle lenses is that it is often easy to get all the important elements in your frame…
More Good Than Harm
In order to get this shot of a bigfin squid while on a night dive in Puerto Galera in the Philippines, my dive buddy…
Strobe Positioning to Avoid the Sandstorm
Wow! What a moment and what an opportunity. Those are the thoughts that went through my head the instant I saw this female peacock…
Shining Some Light On Your Light Meter
The image shown here can accurately be described as a pleasing seascape, one that shares a scene representative of the setting in many Indo-Pacific…