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  1. Maria Munn
    Hola @Marcfoto y bienvenido 🙂 Look forward to seeing your images and chatting a little Spanish too 🙂 Maria www.oceanvisionsphotography.co.uk "Small is beautiful in my underwater world" Shooting with Olympus TG, Go Pro with Backscatter Accessory Lens & Mares Lights, iPhone in a Divevolk Housing
  2. Maria Munn
    Hi @bvanant Bill, Thanks for your feedback on my shark image. I'm only writing this to encourage newcomers that a picture doesn't sometimes need to be perfect to win photography competitions. This image won me BSAC's Travel Photographer of the Year Award, and was judged by very prolific underwater photographers at the time and I'm forever grateful that they loved the image (I was there to learn about white sharks, not to come away with a hope of winning an award). I chose to focus on creating dappled light on the body of the shark. If I had used the camera's white balance, this effect would not have been achieved. Hope this helps to encourage others that underwater photography is an art, and sometimes something that is not perfect turns out to be an image that people like the most. Have a lovely day Bill.
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    Hi @Nikolausz Many thanks for sharing this news. It's really interesting to see this. I have the plastic Go Pro housing and thought it would be fine to add on the Backscatter Macro-Mate and Backscatter/AOI Wide Angle lens to it. However the housing would fog up on occasions which I was disappointed about as I loved using my Go Pro for wide angle scenes. This looks like a great option for those who want something more sturdy and you can add on Weefine's WFL14's Ultra Wide Angle Wet Lens too. I loved switching between video and stills with my Go Pro last summer. Here's a still image captured with my Go Pro Hero 11 and my Backscatter/AOI Wide Angle Lens. Look forward to seeing other's thoughts.
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    Wow that's incredible! Huge well done to everyone for making this such a lovely community and to the Rich, Davide and Tim for all their hard work and input to support everyone here.
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    Hi @bvbellomo I'm really hoping that I can help answer your questions. These are taken with older cameras, but hopefully the principle and thought behind them will help. Yes you can take incredible images of pelagics, large ocean animals and reef scenes using just natural light without the need for strobes with any kind of camera these days and all will be capable of printing an A3 size with good resolution. It's all about using natural light to it's full advantage, planning your shoot to make sure that you take advantage of when natural light is at it's best and positioning yourself in a good position to enable you to capture the best image possible. The image of the white shark was taken with my Canon 20D at the time in an Ikelite Housing (scooping me the BSAC Travel Photographer of the Year Award once upon a time :0) and was simply taken in natural light at Guadelupe Island in Mexico. Editing wise, I simply boosted the colours slightly to enhance the blue and the rays of light. The other images were captured at Sipidan Island with my Canon S95 in a Recsea Housing at the time using my INON Fisheye Lens which enable me to get super close to my subject to keep the colours vivid and the images sharp. The middle one was captured with just natural light, again choosing the time of day and the conditions correctly, early morning is great for shooting. The image to the right is taken with two INON strobes, lighting the subject on either side to help bring the scene to life, adding vibrant colours and enhancing the textures of the anemone. Another option is to shoot in RAW mode and then help to boost your image using Lightroom but you'll need the quality of the image to start with. I print all my work at my studio using my Canon 2100 Plotter up to A1 size both on canvases and as posters. Hope this helps and feel free to ask away if you have more questions. Maria
  6. Maria Munn
    Absolutely beautiful @ScubaBC - brought back some amazing memories from diving there when the Nautilus Explorer used to go up there to Alaska. Thanks so much for posting - adore those sealions! 🙂
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    More information about "Go Diving Show 2025, UK - 1st/2nd March 2025"
    I've finally recovered from the Go Diving Show which was held at the NAEC Stoneleigh Park, Coventry, Uk last weekend and what an incredible show it was. From showcasing diving equipment, holiday destinations, marine conservation and of course underwater photography over a 10,000 square metre area, there really was something to inspire everyone. Underwater Photographer of the Year is celebrating 60 years and had 30 of it's winning images on display from the entrance and throughout the show to inspire visitors as well as a packed audience to view them on the stage on Saturday afternoon. Here is Saeed Rashid introducing some of the images. Winning Image - Catherine Holme's "Kaleidoscope of Colour" - Brand New Category "Coral Reefs" Runner-Up - Jenny Stock's "Gardens of the Caribbean Reef Shark" There was also a dedicated Photo - Inspiration Stage with a wide variety of underwater photography talks to inspire. The hugely talented Jenny Stock concentrated on the "Creativity and Ethics of Photo Manipulation," Simon Rogerson, Editor of SCUBA Magazine shared secrets with the audience of "Photographing Big Animals" and Ellen Cuylaerts enthralled with tales of her past trips and the important of being a DAN member. There were a wide variety of underwater photography specialists exhibiting, some for the first time. DIVEVOLK were popular and stole the hearts of many visitors, with Louis and Kai from DIVEVOLK HQ in China flying in especially to demonstrate their award-winning innovative touchscreen smartphone underwater housings and accessories. Who else is in love with their new "Dreamy Pink" model? It was great to see Sea & Sea again, who had a variety of strobes on show for both compacts and d-SLRS. Orcatorch were also exhibiting, sharing a stand with Sea & Sea. They were demonstrating their popular D710 Best-Selling Dive Light which delivers 3000 lumens of light in 5 different colour options. Which one is your favourite? The ever popular Dr Alex Tattersall of Underwater Visions/Nauticam UK had his usual stand which he shared with Light Balance who are also retailers for DIVEVOLK. The popular team of Anne & Phil Metcalfe from Alphamarine Photography were there and Nemo Photo had their first stand at the show. Nemo Photo are the main distributors for Ikelite as well as offering Marelux and Go Pro products. I'm still buzzing from the show, with the 8 hour drive there and back, it was totally worth it. A huge well done to Mark and Penney Evans, all the Go Diving Team and of course the Exhibitors for creating such a brilliant atmosphere. I'm sad at having to wait a whole year to go back. Who's joining me?
  8. Maria Munn
    I have regularly shot with my iPhone 13 Pro Max in a Sealife Housing with which I have been super happy with the results. The images have been used by the UK National Press, The Guild of Photographers and the Royal Photographic Society for submitting articles. I could shoot RAW, change my ISO and my aperture accordingly via their App. I have printed them onto 30 x 20 in canvas prints as well as 16 x 12 inch Fine Art Images which I show from my studio and there is no difference when compared to my images taken using my TG4 or 6 which are printed at the same size. At the end of the day, it all depends on the subjects which you are shooting, the locations and of course your eye. I now have a Divevolk Housing which has far more accessory options to really get creative with your underwater imagery and am super excited at experimenting with it. I've attached an image taken at Lundy Island, UK which has not been edited. Hope that this helps someone.
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    More information about "Divevolk New Trigger Release - Available in March"
    Meet Stuart from Atlantis Berlin Wassersport & Mee(h)r who talks us through Divevolk's new Trigger Release which can be added onto their housings to make starting and stopping video recording much easier to help reduce video shake, as well as of course capturing images. Huge thanks to the Atlantis Team for their help. https://www.facebook.com/reel/959890282752812
  10. Maria Munn
    Hey Alex, loved the syncronicity of the sea snakes at the beginning, a beautiful way to bring us all into a beautiful video. So many huge schools of fish, it was really stunning and brought back lovely memories of Raja. Thanks for sharing and look forward to seeing more.
  11. Maria Munn

    Boot 2025

    Maria Munn commented on TimG's article in News

    I really loved BOOT and loved meeting up with Hans, Chris and you Tim 🙂 Sealife Cameras, OrcaTorch and Big Blue were also there which was really great to see. I loved having a look at all the products. Fabulous atmosphere with lots of treats on offer all the way round, well done to BOOT and all the exhibitors for all the nibbles, pretzels and even fresh rasberries to go with the Prosecco on the Egypt stand.
  12. Maria Munn
    Love this, the music is perfect, well done! It brought back a lot of wonderful memories diving Vancouver Island and Alaska, thanks so much. Look forward to seeing more!
  13. Maria Munn
    Hey and welcome @MiguelGracias Jin from almost sunny England. Hope it's warmer where you are and looking forward to seeing your pics 🙂 Maria
  14. Maria Munn
    Hey @Ar Splujer That's incredible. Where did you shoot this? I've seen some resources online, I'll have a peek tonight and have a look for you. Well done, love this 🙂
  15. Maria Munn
    Hey @bghazzal Thanks for the thanks 🙂 - it copes very well as that is the set-up I use. I wanted to include it in here but I was aware that the article might end up very long. I used mine with my TG4 and attached it to an Oly housing to take split level shots. There was a little bit of vignetting but it still gave me an image which I was happy with here of Kimmeridge in Dorset, UK (low res attached) and was Highly Commended with it by the British Society of Underwater Photographers on my first attempt using an INON S-2000 strobe. Hope this helps. Go grab it and have fun I say, I still have mine here and still love it 🙂
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