Underwater Photography by Larry Gates

Author:Larry Gates
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781682031339
Publisher: Amherst Media
Published: 2016-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

Susanne Skyrm titled this image Diver Over the Wall, Cozumel. She told me she was within 1½ feet of the subject, and a sense of serendipity came over her as she witnessed the diver floating over the wall as she was photographing the Branching Tube Sponges (Pseudoceratina crassa). She shot with a Canon T1i in a Watershot housing and a diffused Inon S-2000 strobe at full power. Her Tokina 11–16mm lens was at 15mm behind a 6-inch dome port. Susanne’s exposure settings were f/6.7, second, and ISO 100.

Ultra-wide-angle lenses are an excellent choice for photographing sharks that are being fed or chummed and come in very close to you. Sharks are large, so it is important to choose a lens that covers their size. In this photograph, courtesy of John Shaheen, a Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is pictured passing by a cage John was photographing from. This photo was taken on a trip to Guadalupe Island, Mexico—one of the few places in the world where this type of diving is done. John used his Olympus XZ-1, a wide-angle wet-lens, and two strobes to take this shot. The shark was approximately 3 feet away. Sharks are two-toned. You usually light the top part of the shark with your left-side strobe and use your right-side strobe, at a lower output setting, to add a bit of fill light for its underside. In this instance, John had both strobes set to TTL (automatic). He used an exposure of f/7.1, second (in instances when sharks are moving faster, a faster shutter speed is often used), and ISO 100.

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