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Happy Holidays 2020
Wishing the Wetpixel community the very happiest of holidays in 2020. May we all have a very festive celebration and hope that we can manage to gather as best, even if this is in a virtual way. Let it be an opportunity to reach out to others in our communities and to attempt to share some light. Take care, and stay safe.
Wetpixel Live: Keldan RC1 Remote Control
The owner of Keldan Lights, Daniel Keller, shows off his latest gadget to Adam Hanlon on Wetpixel Live. Using ultrasound, the RC1 can control multiple lights remotely even if they are not within the “line of sight.”
Wetpixel Live: Tiger Beach for Photographers
Tiger Beach, off Grand Bahama, is one of the best places in the world to get reliable photographic encounters with tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier). Perhaps less well known is that the area also hosts large numbers of Caribbean reef and lemon sharks, along with nurse, hammerhead, and bull sharks. Adam and Alex [chat]9https://youtu.be/NWSX_mM-p0k) about their experiences at “the beach” and share some insight on how to maximize the site’s creative potential.
Wetpixel Live: Photographing Scuba Divers
Once the most common type of imagery captured by underwater photographers, pictures of scuba divers underwater are now somewhat rarer. Alex Mustard and Adam Hanlon discuss why this is the case and provide some pointers about creating memorable images featuring divers.
Reef ID Guide to Indo-Pacific Seashells released
Reef ID Books has released their Living Shells of the Tropical Indo-Pacific photo guide. Offering an ID to over 1500 shell species. It has ID images of 100 cowrie species and more than 120 allied cowries. Author Andrey Ryanskiy is offering the book as an eBook, via Amazon as a paper edition and Apple as an ePub. To celebrate its publication, he is offering a 20% discount on the eBook.
Wetpixel Live: Capturing Spawning Behavior
Adam and Alex discuss underwater sex and how to create beautiful underwater imagery of this iconic behavior. They go on to discuss their belief that images showing the way creatures behave underwater should be not only descriptive but also graphically pleasing.
Wetpixel Live: Sharing Underwater Images
Keldan Ships RC1 Remote Control
Keldan has announced that they are now shipping their RC1 Remote Control. It uses sonar and can control the brightness of the company’s 24XR and 18XR lights, has a range of 50m, and works around corners or through walls. Each unit can control 2 lights or 2 groups of lights independently.
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