coupla wide angles

First time shooting digital (d60/s+s housing) so be gentle:

Great shot, and incredible blues. What lighing did you use and was what did you do afterwards in the computer.

Bye Simon

Great shot, and incredible blues. What lighing did you use and was what did you do afterwards in the computer.

 

Bye Simon

lighting was dual 90dx strobes

computer:

import in adobe camera raw

exposures and color are pretty much "as shot".

minor cropping

remove stream of bubbles in second picture

clone stamp away some sand particles and backscatter

a little dodging and burning

Did you use Custom WB and how did you produce the picture for it?

Did you use a 14mm lens?

What is "dodging and burning" never come over this terms

Did you use Custom WB and how did you produce the picture for it?

Did you use a 14mm lens?

 

What is "dodging and burning" never come over this terms

I think I just used "as shot" for wb

yes..sigma 14mm

dodging and burning=seletive brightening and darkening. In conventional phototography this is done with paper masks when printing.

In photoshop it is best done with layers. I used it to reduce the harshness of the shadow in fron of the sponge.

Very nice!

Thaks Chris for the explanation.

I did this often but never heard this terms (maybe because English is not my mother language)

Simon

The depth of field on the second photo is amazing. When I saw it, I thought it was a photoshop creation. Great job.

Hi Chris,

could you tell a little bit more about brightening and darkening in Photoshop.

How do you use layers for it?

Thanks

You make different versions of the Picture (best different Raw Conversions with different exposure corrections) take the best overall (mostly the "middle" as Background and out the others as layers with "Hide all" Layermasks over it. at places you want to get it darker you paint a littel whit on the layermask of a darker version and when you want to lighter you paint al litte white on the mask of a brighter layer.

Great to eliminate Hot spots.

Simon

You make different versions of the Picture (best different Raw Conversions with different exposure corrections) take the best overall (mostly the "middle" as Background and out the others as layers with "Hide all" Layermasks over it. at places you want to get it darker you paint a littel whit on the layermask of a darker version and when you want to lighter you paint al litte white on the mask of a brighter layer.

 

Great to eliminate Hot spots.

 

Simon

Also, after you have made the mask layer, you usually want to perform some sort of blur operation on it so

that the brightened/darkened parts will blend smoothly into the unaffected areas.

this wasn't done heavily on either of these photos - they were acceptable straight out of the camera

except for the bubbles in the 2nd one

Very good Chris. Lighting for WA shots is pretty tough. I like the lighting on the snapper - just the right amount of fill for a silver fish.

Cheers

James