Photo Archive: August, 2009

Blue Water Ascent

Blogged by Simon on August 17, 2009 1:37pm | Last updated by Simon on February 03, 2010 12:00pm | Category: Underwater Photography |

Blue Water Ascent

Matt and myself coming up from 25m without our anchor line at Little Colors Reef. Turns out we had drifted off on the way back so we had to do a blue water ascent. Matt dutyfully deployed his SMB (Ronnie and Peter would have been proud) for our safety stop, so I had 3 minutes [...]

Diver Silhouette

Blogged by Simon on August 16, 2009 1:32pm | Last updated by Simon on February 03, 2010 12:00pm | Category: Underwater Photography |

Diver Silhouette

For the past 4 weeks, I have been working on getting better results with wide angle lenses. When looking at my previous work, I wasn’t happy with the amount of backscatter, hotspots and editing I had to do as a result. After re-reading Martin Edge’s recommendations on this, I came to three conclusions. First, my [...]

Giant Cuttlefish

Blogged by Simon on August 07, 2009 1:27pm | Last updated by Simon on April 19, 2010 11:34am | Category: Underwater Photography |

Giant Cuttlefish

A Giant Cuttlefish from last weekend’s dive at Sponge Gardens. Shot with 10.5mm fisheye at close distance, exposed at f/8 for 1/250s, then converted to black and white. I used a burn filter to darken parts of the image and lowered the contrast to soften some of the tones during black and white conversion.
This [...]

Weedy Sea Dragon

Blogged by Simon on August 01, 2009 1:19pm | Last updated by Simon on March 22, 2010 10:35pm | Category: Underwater Photography |

Weedy Sea Dragon

Another gorgeous winter Saturday in Sydney today, 20 degrees celcius and sunny – off to the water! Instead of the planned 5 divers, turns out we were only two. What more can you ask for as a photographer? Yves threw us into Sponge Gardens again today, giving me an opportunity to hunt for Weedy Seadragons, [...]