Photo Archive: May, 2010

Blue Groper

Blogged by Simon on May 31, 2010 2:37pm | Last updated by Simon on July 28, 2010 12:49pm | Category: Underwater Photography |

Blue Groper

Another dive in Sydney, another nosy Blue Groper . I would go as far as recommending these for test shots, you can’t shake ‘em, they just keep coming back whatever you do.
Here we have an available light photo, the flash died on this dive at Maroubra, so had to make due with what i could [...]

Bioluminescence

Blogged by Simon on May 19, 2010 10:56am | Last updated by Simon on May 19, 2010 10:56am | Category: Underwater Photography |

Bioluminescence

Long time no post! For those of you who don’t know me, we just had a little baby boy so diving wasn’t high on my priority list in the past few weeks. What I am doing however is finally working on all that stock photography I shot over the past year and still haven’t published [...]

Self Portrait

Blogged by Simon on May 10, 2010 8:00am | Last updated by Simon on April 27, 2010 3:23pm | Category: Underwater Photography |

Self Portrait

This slow moving exemplary of species Homo sapiens got blinded pretty badly by the twin YS-250 Pro flash heads when taking this photo but it ended up being all his own fault.
After looking directly into my own dome port and flash, I feel sorry for most of the fish that endure this during shoots [...]

Sponge Garden

Blogged by Simon on May 05, 2010 8:00am | Last updated by Simon on April 27, 2010 3:23pm | Category: Underwater Photography |

Sponge Garden

Underwater landscape photography is something I have never heard of before, that’s probably because there is no such thing. Yes, there are your coral reef scenes, but they usually include fish.
Here I just snapped away at the sponge overgrowth on the seabed because of the unusual shapes and distribution of the sponges. I shot [...]