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Cal Ripfin great white shark on YouTube
Joe Romeiro of 333 productions has posted a stylized video featuring “Cal Ripfin” (aka Shredder) onto YouTube. Cal Ripfin is a notable great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), distinguished by his ripped fin, that is often seen by groups at Isla Guadeloupe, Mexico. The video is entitled “Battle Scars”.
Issue 64 of Underwater Photography Magazine available
The January/February 2012 issue of Underwater Photography Magazine (UwP) is now available to download. Issue 64 features articles about diving in Cape Town, Ascension Island and Madeira as well as a review of prime wide-angle lenses for EVIL cameras, the Inon X-2 housing, GoPro HERO housing options and external monitors for SLR cameras. It also features information about many of the new product releases announced at DEMA and lots of news and updates.
UwP is a free bimonthly publication available to download as a pdf document.
Happy New Year wishes
Wishing the Wetpixel community a very Happy (Gregorian) New Year. If you have already celebrated, we hope you saw in 2012 in style, and if you have yet to do so, may your festivities be joyful. We wish you all the very best for 2012, and hope that it will include fantastic opportunities for capturing imagery underwater.
On a reflective note, 2011 has been a great year for sharks but we need to maintain the momentum achieved in 2012. Let’s try and keep the pressure on governments and individuals to end the fin trade.
Late availability: PNG Eastern Fields expedition
Free from 10-20 January? If so, there is an amazing opportunity to join the Wetpixel Eastern Fields expedition that will visit several of the best sites around the Eastern Fields. Depending on how the weather and water look it may also visit another reef system called the Ashmore’s. The trip will be based aboard the MV Golden Dawn.
The late availability is due to a last minute scheduling change. If you are free and fancy kicking off 2012 with some of the best warm water diving on the planet, now is your chance. Please get in contact with Dan Baldocci very soon for more information and details.
Best or favorite shot of 2011 thread open
The traditional Best/Favorite image of 2011 thread is open on the forums and is, as always, gathering an amazing array of images. The idea behind the thread is to add shots that have significance or meaning to you over the past year, which may be your “best” one, but can also be one that has a particular symbolism for an experience, event or trip that you have had in 2011. These threads are fantastic, as if you go back to previous years (2009, 2010), they show an amazing diversity and talent among the Wetpixel community.
In accordance with tradition as well, many people can’t choose, and post multiple best/favorite shots! (Image by Clinton Bauder from the thread.)
Playing with the sharp end ebook released
Wetpixel member Gavin Parsons has released an ebook documenting his last twelve years as a freelance photojournalist. The book contains stories about swimming with a variety of sharks, swimming around an iceberg, investigating a 17th century shipwreck and traveling throughout the UK in a battered van to dive in freshwater lakes as well as locations as diverse as the United Kingdom, Egypt, Mozambique, South Africa and Newfoundland.
It is available for Kindle on Amazon at a price of $5.35 (£3.44).
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BBC discusses the making of the brinicle sequence
BBC Natural History Unit producer Kathryn Jeffs has written an article about the making of the amazing time-lapse footage that documents the formation of a brinicle under the ice in Antarctica. On the BBC Nature pages, she describes how on their first attempt, after leaving the camera and lights in place overnight, a seal had knocked the camera over and rendered the footage useless. The next attempt produced the footage that was eventually used in the Frozen Planet series. The shot needed : “Three underwater tripods, three underwater lighting stands, three cameras, three lights, two control boxes, and countless cables which were all placed and held down with lead weights” under the ice in 2°C water.
Review: Wahoo HD housing for Sony CLM-V55 monitor
Wetpixel Moderator Shawn Heinrichs presents a review of the Wahoo HD housing for the Sony CLM-V55 monitor. Monitors for SLR cameras were very much in evidence at DEMA 2011 and, with the availability of HDMI cable solutions that can be used inside of SLR housings, will undoubtedly be a key item of equipment for those shooting video on them.
Backscatter presented the Wahoo HD housing at the show and Shawn purchased an early model. His review is based on his findings so far.