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Keldan ships Color Checker card
Keldan is shipping its pocket-sized underwater Color Checker. Mounted on a rigid fiberglass board, the checker has a 24 patch X-Rite ColorChecker on one side and an 18% neutral grey card on the other.
Wetpixel Live: Alex Mustard’s Favorite Shark Imges
It is fitting that yesterday was World Shark Awareness Day and Wetpixel Live features regular contributor Alex Mustard’s Favorite Shark Images. He takes us from Cuba to Cornwall, describes his equipment and techniques, and lists the reasons for these images making it onto his shortlist.
Wetpixel Live: Ethical Guidelines for Underwater Photographers
Underwater photography can be a powerful advocate for the oceans, allowing a large audience to view the undersea world and hence seek to protect it. There is also a responsibility to faithfully represent what we see underwater and to do no harm in creating images of it. Wetpixel Live delves into this, with Wetpixel Editor, Adam Hanlon and regular contributor Alex Mustard discussing some practical steps that photographers can take to minimize their impact and create images in an ethical manner.
Wetpixel Live: What is Happening to the Digital Camera Market?
The digital camera industry has gone through some profound changes over the past few years. The proliferation of mobile devices with very adequate imaging functions has caused the market to contract significantly. Alex Mustard and Adam Hanlon discuss these profound effects on Wetpixel Live, particularly with reference as to how this will affect underwater photographers.
Wetpixel Live: Travel Trips for Underwater Photographers
Although we are all somewhat limited in our ability to travel, this should not prevent us from making plans to do so in the future. In the next episode of Wetpixel Live, Adam Hanlon and Alex Mustard team up to offer some advice on how to travel with underwater photography gear. Both of them travel a great deal, so their ideas are based on lots of practical experience.
Sony announces FE 12-24mm f/2.8 lens for full frame cameras
Sony has announced a 12-24mm G Master lens for full frame cameras. It has a constant aperture of f/2.8 and a minimum focus distance of 11 inches (27.9cm). As is always the case, performance behind a done port remains to be tested.
Wetpixel Live: 5 Ways to Improve your Underwater Photography when you Can’t Dive.
We are almost all currently in a position in which we are not doing as much underwater photography as we might wish. As an antidote to this, our next episode of Wetpixel Live provides some (hopefully) useful ideas about how we can occupy ourselves when we are unable to be beneath the surface.
Announcing Wetpixel Live
Hosted by Wetpixel Editor Adam Hanlon, with regular contributions from Associate Editor and renowned photographer, Alex Mustard, Wetpixel Live is a regularly refreshed series of video conversations with leading underwater image makers about topics that are of interest to all those that venture beneath the surface with a camera. It is crammed full of hard-edged technical information and practical advice aimed at helping people create memorable images.
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