Underwater Photography a web magazine Issue 37 July/Aug 2007 Ikelite Nikon L11 package 10Bar focus light CMAS 11th World Championship Sea & Sea YS-27DX Tokina 10-17mm Under the Blue results Sealux HX7 housing Bonin Islands Temperate temptations Nekton broadcast housings Bonaire Digital ShootOut Parting Shots Canon EOS 5D Compact Digital Still Housings for EOS 10D EOS 20D Canon • Fuji • Nikon • Olympus • Sony EOS 300D Ikelite offers housings for more than fifty different digital SLR-DC Housings EOS 350D, Rebel XT still camera models to meet the diverse demands of the EOS 400D, Rebel XTi The Ikelite SLR-DC housing takes underwater photographer community. Ikelite’s Compact Nikon full advantage of the digital SLR Digital Still Housings are molded of clear polycarbonate. camera’s innovative features. The D-200 D-80 Dive while knowing your system is safe and have housing is injection molded of D-70, 70s complete visual access to the camera, LCD, monitor and clear, lightweight polycarbonate D-50 control functions. Most housings are rated to 60m (200’). for strength, visual access to the D-40 When you invest in an Ikelite housing, you invest in a camera, LCD screens and camera Olympus controls. The housing provides E-330 system. Ikelite offers a full line of accessories for their controls for most camera functions. E-300 Compact Digital Still Housings. Add a Tray and Release Most Ikelite SLR-DC Housings E-500 Handle for easier handling underwater. The Release Handle include conversion circuitry that Sony incorporates a quick-release for mounting and removing provide TTL compatibility with DSLR-A100 Ikelite’s articulating ball socket arm system. Ikelite’s DS the latest Ikelite DS Substrobes. Substrobes provide more power, faster recycle times, wider Many Housings also include a coverage and help eliminate backscatter. Choose the ever Flash Compensation Module which popular DS51 or DS125 Substrobe. Some camera models provides over and under-exposure offer auto exposure with DS Substrobes, or use the compensation in the TTL mode and EV-Controller which provides 10 manual power settings in easily allow you to switch to Manual 1/2 f-stop increments for precision lighting. Exposure Mode which provides eight power settings. All exposure Add the Ikelite W-20 waterproof wide- compensation is done on the back angle lens to your system to widen the Underwater Systems camera’s angle of coverage, allowing you of the housing. There is no need to 50 W. 33rd. Street access complicated camera menus. Indianapolis, IN to get closer to your subject for enhanced 46208 color and clarity. 317-923-4523 www.ikelite.com UnderwaterUnderwater PhotographyPhotography Contents A web magazine Jul/Aug 2007 4 News & Travel 23 Tokina 10-17mm 34 Bonaire ShootOut 41 Temperate water 13 New Products by Alex Mustard by Mark Webster 35 CMAS 11th World 27 Bonin Islands Championships 49 Parting shot 1 24 10Bar focus light by Stan de la Cruz 50 Parting shot 2 by Andi Voeltz Underwater Photography by Tim Rock 2001 - 2007 © PR Productions by Mathieu Meur Publisher/Editor Peter Rowlands by Jeff Mullins and Gerald Rambert The views and opinions expressed Cover photo by by UwP contributors are not 39 Under the Blue necessarily those of the Editor Tim Rock www.pr-productions.co.uk Competition results [email protected] www.uwpmag.com 37/3 News, Travel & Events Guadalupe Gt White Sharks with Charles Hood 16-24th September 2008 26-27th October 2007 Royal Geographical Society, Kensington, London Maybe you are a beginner with a relatively modest camera system, alternatively you could be a pro-am with the latest digital SLR complete with custom housing, or maybe you Frans Lanting are somewhere in between. You may presenting ‘Life - A Karl Ammann journey through have already completed an underwater talking about photographic course having gained time’ Hosted by photography for all the theory and completed a week’s Chris Packham conservation shoot in warm waters. You may have got some great pictures and now you want to try your hand at capturing the Find out how to take, improve, Edwards, Eddie Ephraums, Pål ultimate image – a great white shark publish, earn a living from, and make Hermansen, Laurent Geslin, Robert Island on Nautilus Explorer is an portrait. Let the lessons begin. a difference with nature photographs Glenn Ketchum, Tim Laman, Frans owner-operated, 35-metre purpose Charles Hood, the accomplished at WildPhotos 2007. Lanting, and Cristina Mittermeier, built dive vessel, built to the highest underwater photographer and The two-day event brings among others. standards of safety and comfort. She journalist, will make his second together many of the world’s best Also presenting their work and was launched in 2000. The staff and visit to Guadalupe Island to lead wildlife and landscape photographers skills will be winners from this year’s crew pride themselves on matching this tour, which is his choice for the plus leading photographic agents and Shell Wildlife Photographer of the each charter to the individual needs most photographic and exciting shark publishers to offer insights, tips and Year competition, the results of which of the divers on board. In their own encounter on earth. Charles will be visions to appeal to everyone with an will be announced the day before words: “As an owner operated long on hand for informal photographic interest in nature imagery. WildPhotos. range luxury dive boat, we strive discussion and critique. Underwater Featuring the work, wit and to offer a unique combination of photographers of all levels will wisdom of Doug Allan, Karl www.wildphotos.org.uk professionalism, warmth, adventure certainly benefit from Charles’s Ammann, Colin Baxter, Gary and some terrific diving”. knowledge and experience. Braasch, Peter Cairns, Mark We will be visiting Guadalupe Carwardine, Chris Dickie, Mark www.divequest.co.uk www.uwpmag.com 37/ 34th World Festival of dived since her childhood. She will be the honorary guest for the 3th edition Underwater Pictures of the Festival. Antibes – France In the new spaces placed at our October 24th to 28 th 2007 disposal by the marine theme park MARINELAND, the Festival will spread over another dimension. All festival-goers and participants will can attend the shows offered by Upcoming International Photo & MARINELAND. The opening-ceremony will Video Competitions be held round the orcas’ basin, with more than .000 seats. This evening will include an Orcas show and the July 14th screening of a film chosen among the Tioman Mega Dive (Malaysia) films in competition. A cocktail will www.tiomanmegadive.com close the evening. During the Festival, the Aug 1st competitors’ films, slides and Scuba Diver Australasia 2007 Photo Comp slides-show will be screened into www.scubadiveraustralasia.com/competition.html two rooms (1.000 and 300 seats). An huge car park, with thousands Aug 1st spaces will provide our visitors with Pix Digital Imaging Contest No.13 (US) more comfort. Three restaurants will www.pixdigitalimagingcontest.com/ receive the festival participants inside The 3th World Festival of the MARINELAND Park. Aug 21st Underwater Pictures will be held The giving-prize ceremony Photo District News World in Focus Contest (US) in Antibes – France, at the marine will be held round the Orcas’ basin. www.worldinfocuscontest.com mammal park MARINELAND from During the ceremony, all the Festival October 2th to 28 th 2007 participants will be able to attend the 2007, it’s AQUA LUNG’s 60th showing of the awarded films in the birthday. The 3th edition of the two viewing rooms. Festival will widely take part in the celebration of this jubilee. www.underwater-festival.com Many celebrities practise scuba diving. Claire KEIM, a French actress and singer with a brilliant career, has www.uwpmag.com 37/5 DivePhotoGuide / Wakatobi Underwater Photo & Video Festival March 28 - April 11, 2008 Eco Divers to host Asian Diver magazine’s Ocean Odyssey Digital Photo Shoot out 26th Nov - 5th Dec 2007 Following on from the success Pacific Aggressor Fleet liveaboard trip of the Asian Diver Magazine’s Shoot- to a Mares Proton Regulator, Citizen Out hosted by Eco Divers in 2005, Pro Master Dive watch and more. Wakatobi is truly a slice of Most evenings will be set aside Eco Divers at Kungkungan Bay From 30 November - 5 December, paradise with exceptional diving and for reviews and screenings of the Resort and Tasik Ria Resort has been the event at Kungkungan Bay Resort endless photo and video opportunities. day’s images. Three workshops will chosen to host the “Ocean Odyssey offers prizes from an Emperor Divers’ So where better to hold an underwater be held for novice to intermediate Digital Shoot-out” Competition. Red Sea luxury liveaboard trip, Mares photo and video festival! shooters who wish to polish up on All are welcome to enter, Proton 2 Metal Regulator, Citizen You can choose to spend a week some of the essential skills. whatever the ability, with the Pro Master Dive watch and an overall on board the Pelagian or a week at H2O Photo Pros will be on site emphasis on having fun and learning, Best Portfolio prize of a Nikon D80 Wakatobi resort - or both! There’s both weeks with the latest underwater including free advice and tips from camera kit and Ikelite housing. plenty of opportunity to participate photo & video gear available for in- Eco Divers’ resident photo pros, Cary As well as giving you the chance and hone your underwater photo water demos, and will be providing Yanny and Steve Coverdale. to make your mark in the world of or video skills among some of the underwater video workshops. Guests will also have the rare underwater photography, this is also healthiest reefs in the world.