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Review: Tobias Friedrich Lightroom Presets by Mike Veitch
Wetpixel Moderator and award-winning underwater photographer Mike Veitch of The Underwater Tribe reviews Tobias Friedrich’s Lightroom presets for underwater photographers. These offer the potential of one-touch editing of images, reducing the amount of time that we all spend in front of a computer screen. Mike describes how they work and assesses how effective they are.
Wetpixel Live: Dive Gear for UW Photographers Part 2
Over on Wetpixel Live, we present part 2 of Alex Mustard and Adam Hanlon’s discussion about dive gear for underwater photographers. In it, we discuss wetsuits, pockets, drysuits, fins, gloves, and dive computers, with the emphasis boom on what works well for us when capturing images underwater.
Wetpixel Live: Dive Gear for UW Photographers Part 1
While we are all photographers, we are also divers. In a 2 part episode of Wetpixel Live, Adam and Alex discuss some general ideas about which diving gear works for them, and how they configure their gear in order to try and maximize photographic opportunities.
Wetpixel Live: Strobe Arms and Clamps
As underwater photographers, we often get caught up in the exciting gear like cameras, housings, and lenses and end up ignoring the more basic, but equally crucial items. Arguably, one of these is strobe arms and clamps, and in this episode of Wetpixel Live, Alex and Adam discuss their approaches to these more mundane, but very important tools.
Wetpixel Live: Favorite Seal Images
It is National Marine Week in the UK and to celebrate this, Adam and Alex share their favorite seal images on Wetpixel Live. Diving with and photographing seals is one of the most fun things you can do underwater, and these iconic creatures are such a feature of UK diving.
Wetpixel Live: TTL and shooting with Ambient Light
Responding to a question posted by a user on the channel, Adam Hanlon and Alex Mustard provide some ideas about using TTL with fast-moving subjects. Their discussion then digresses into a discussion about shooting bigger subjects and when it might be appropriate to use filters to improve color in our images.
Salty announces housing for RED Komodo
Salty housings are accepting pre-orders for their housing for the RED Komodo digital cinema cameras. Machined from aluminum, it has a depth limit of 20m (60ft), is designed to be used with the Atomos Shinobi, and has a port fitting sized at 105mm. This does prevent the use of wide cinema lenses. Salty offers the option of custom paint jobs!
Wetpixel Live: How to Shoot Bug Eye Lenses
In addition to our episode providing a round-up of bug eye lens options posted on Wetpixel Live earlier, Adam Hanlon and Alex Mustard discuss their experiences using these unique lenses and provide users with some advice on techniques.
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