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Underwater Photography Jan/Feb 2015 Issue 82 Underwater Photography1_Dec-FP_V1_PATH.pdf 1 19/12/14 10:23 pm C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Issue 82/2 www.uwpmag.com Contents Underwater Photography 4 Editorial 36 Nauticam Nikon D750 A web magazine UwP82 Jan/Feb 2015 5 News Travel & Events by Alex Mustard 50 Stills to video 62 Gulf Gobies by Rob Duncan by Alex Tyrell 12 New Products 41 Flip snoot pro by Dan Bolt 53 Storytelling 69 SouthWest Ramblings 11 by Mark Webster by Eric Hanauer 30 Edward Lai interview by Peter Rowlands 45 DeepPro GoPro by Ron Lucas 74 Book Review 59 Lembeh workshop by Dan Bolt by Paul Macdonald 78 Parting Shot by Peter Rowlands Underwater Photography 2001 - 2015 Cover shot by © PR Productions Alex Mustard Publisher/Editor Peter Rowlands www.pr-productions.co.uk [email protected] www.uwpmag.com Issue 82/3 Video in print Now everyone is leaping into 4k Editorial and even the top GoPros can shoot There’s no doubt that with the it but my suspicion is that there will in this issue confirm just that. Rob volume of the float arms, you are marketing hype behind 4k, video is only be a few who stick with it and Duncan has written a very informative pushing something much larger/ the new hot potato but discussing it in produce watchable end products. account of the transition from bulkier through the water which has a all its facets is actually quite difficult There is so much more to do with shooting video as opposed to stills dampening effect on any movements. in a ‘printed’ magazine. video from the story idea, actually and Eric Hanauer discusses the vital With stills it also means you can hold Despite being in the digital age shooting the right footage to tell that ingredient of any successful video clip the system much steadier so should be there are still lots of conventional story and then editing it and adding be it 1 minute or 50 minutes long - able to get away with slower shutter magazines dedicated to photography sound or narration. storytelling. speeds. where still images and the techniques With stills your work is mostly Enjoy. If your system is quite heavy behind them are displayed in print and over when you press the shutter but underwater I recommend you try discussed in the written word. The with video your work has only just buoyancy floats as I think they will moving image - or video- however Balance and buoyancy begun. make a big difference. has been almost impossible to feature I learned all this from watching successfully in print because pages Believe it or not I was recently and diving with the late great Peter Parting Shot can’t include video clips. asked “How do you get your video Scoones whose video housings were In a funny sort of a way UwP is footage to be so steady?” and once perfectly trimmed and balanced. I Eagle eyed readers will notice rather like a conventionally printed my artistic ego has shrunk to normal remember watching some footage he that this issue’s Parting Shot is not magazine in that it too is limited as again I explained that balance and had shot that day and I remarked how only written by me but is also not to how it can convey and discuss buoyancy are the basic ingredients for good and smoothe it looked. “Ah”, really the ‘story within a story’ that video footage and techniques. Sure success and they apply equally well to he said, “I’d forgotten the camera the format is designed to encourage. we could embed video clips to go stills as well as video shooters. was still rolling then”. Such was the Those readers who will accuse with the text but that would make With video my personal balance and buoyancy that even his me of giving myself priority over the downloadable file size far too big preference is to get the balance of unintentional footage was good. other contributors would actually be which would take away from UwP’s my system - housing, arms and quite wrong for this is only the second advantage. lights - to be ever so slightly negative time in UwP’s 82 issue history that The perfect domain for video underwater and that, ideally, if you 4k frenzy there have been no Parting Shots is the web with sites like YouTube were to let go of it, it would ever so submitted. where you can link to them or even slowly sink but remain level. That can People are funny, aren’t they? So if you have an interesting shot embed their link as being the best way be achieved in most cases by adding Well, not funny exactly but more which has a ‘story with a story’, UwP to discuss and illustrate everything buoyancy in the form of closed cell weird. would love to hear from you and you from storyboarding to shooting to foam floats but also by getting the Take 4k video, for example. could be the next Parting Shot. editing with actual moving examples centre of gravity as low as possible. You’d think video has just been on screen. This will result in stability. invented and that prior to 4k the That doesn’t mean that UwP Being lighter means less wrist moving image was not worth Peter Rowlands can’t feature video and 2 articles strain and, with the added bulk/ considering. [email protected] Issue 82/4 www.uwpmag.com News, Travel & Events World Shootout 2015 The World Shootout 2015 has 10th DEEP Indonesia Photo Competition announced that it will be accepting entries from 1 January 2015. The hosted by DivePhotoGuide and Wetpixel contest will accept underwater images taken anywhere in the world between The prestigious 1 January and 1 November 2015 and DEEP Indonesia offers over $70,000 worth of prizes. International Underwater The winners will be announced at the $3,000 check for the 1st prize! Photo Competition is part BOOT Show, Dusseldorf in January Early Bird Registration, carried of a unique series hosted 2016. out from January 1st to August 30th, by DivePhotoGuide & Submit your best underwater entitles the participant to submit a Wetpixel, in association images, taken in any destination free additional set of images in each with DEEP Indonesia, around the world, and win some of category the participant has registered Indonesia’s first-ever the most valuable prizes awarded to to. diving, adventure travel underwater photographers, including a www.worldshootout.org and extreme sports expo. Photographers will compete in six themed categories to win over $40,000 in prizes, including magazine editors from around the Swim with Whale Sharks underwater photo equipment and world. July 13 - 18 & July 18 - 23 2015 premium dive travel packages to some Deadline for submissions 4 d ays on private charter of the top photo destinations in the February 27th, 2015 Isla Mujeres, Mexico world. Winners will be announced The DEEP Indonesia competition online, published by our media is part of a unique series, that together partners worldwide and exhibited with the Our World Underwater during the DEEP Indonesia Expo. competition, has a prize pool of The fee to enter is $10 per image. over $90,000. The prestige of these As with all UnderwaterCompetition. contests means that winners also com events, 15% of entry Swim with Wild Dolphins achieve the glory of being named proceeds will be donated to marine June 20 - 26, 2015 some of the world’s best underwater conservation efforts. 6 days on a Liveaboard in Bahamas photographers. Esteemed judges include leading professional www.underwatercompetition.com www.GregorySweeney.com underwater photographers and www.uwpmag.com Issue 82/5 Underwater Photography2_Dec-FP_V1-PATH.pdf 1 19/12/14 10:21 pm C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Issue 82/6 www.uwpmag.com 51st Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition John Collins Photography Workshop 9-16 September 2015 Open to Marsa Shagra, Southern Egypt young, amateur and professional photographers John will be offering worldwide, the 51st photography and video workshops Wildlife Photographer at Red Sea Diving Safari’s Marsa of the Year Competition Shagra. For this 5-day workshop, John launches for entries on plans to offer a combination of photo Monday 5 January 2015 and video instruction. This is suitable for eight weeks. to a wide variety of divers, from those Critiquing the with entry-level compact cameras many tens of thousands right through to DSLR-experienced of submissions to photographers, and those starting out find the winning 101 will be an impressing the panel is to make sure with GoPro action cameras. international jury of experts including your basics are exemplary and then National Geographic Senior Editor dare to be different.’ www.oonasdivers.com Kathy Moran, master of nature There are two special awards photographer, Tom Mangelsen, TIMElapse calls on adult entrants to French aerial photographer, Thierry submit up to three sequences each Vezon, and underwater photographer, lasting between 45 to 90 seconds, Dr Alex Mustard. which tell a story or reveal something Wildlife Photographer of unique from the natural world, be it the Year (WPY) has remained behaviour or an event; and WILD-I at the forefront of contemporary seeks natural world stories caught on photography, championing the ethics, mobile devices from young citizen while also recognising and awarding reporters. artistic composition, narrative form, By taking part, photographers get and technical excellence. the chance to win a trip to London to WPY 2015 judge, Dr Alexander take centre stage at the 51st Wildlife Mustard, says: ‘Like all judges I’m Photographer of the Year Awards, as hoping and expecting to see amazing well as enjoy public exposure of their images, the likes of which I’ve not image as it tours across the world in seen before.