Member Introductions

Hi all. Joanna from Sydney, new to UW photography but keen to learn more. Started diving this March as a COVID hobby and it just stuck. Happy diving all!

Greetings from Lockdown in London.  I'm pretty sure I joined this community way back but have never had the time, until now, to actually participate in any discussions. That thing called work, you know, keeps getting in the way  

Well my name is Joss Woolf and I have been taking pictures since 2004.  I joined the British Society of Underwater Photographers  (of whose members' work I was utterly in awe) in the days when we were still shooting with film, and now I take quite an active part in its operation. I help to organize the speakers for our monthly meetings which used to take place at University College in South Kensington, London but, of course, are now online, having been unable to meet up in person since March. But this has proved to be quite successful, attracting far more people than were ever able to physically meet up in London.

I also help to produce a glossy magazine called "in focus" which is crammed with our members' images and articles which they contribute, free of charge. Until this year, it was actually printed but for the time being it is produced digitally.

I have a Nikon D500 in a Sea & Sea housing and am about to take a leap and buy a pair of Retra Pro strobes. They are so nice and shiny!  I thought I might be able to read about them on this forum.   have been using a YS250PRO which I absolutely love and have used it as a single strobe for a long time. I also have a pair of Inon Z240s which I have always taken with me as a back up.

The only diving I've been able to do this year, due to the travel restrictions, was four days with the seals at Lundy Island in August. Let's hope it won't be too long before things get back to normal.

I organize a two week liveaboard trip to the Red Sea every year and also love to go to Bali or Manado.  You can't beat Indonesia.

Well, I shall enjoy meeting you all and look forward to chatting soon.  And who knows, maybe I can even recruit one or two of you to come and give us a talk at BSoUP!

Joss

Hi there!

Hello, 

I'm a new in to the photography diving. Been diving for about 4 years now and been doing some video with a gopro but got my self a ikelite housing for my canon. Looking forward to diving it. 

Hey there, 

My name is Balazs and I'm from Hungary. I have been diving and taking photos for the past few years and recently made an upgrade from my Sony compact camera to a mirrorless system and looking to buy a housing (Sony A6300) and ports for the Sony 10-18 and the Sony 90mm macro lens - and this is the best place to look around, so I joined!  

 

My name is Dale and I have been diving since 1983, with well over 3000 dives  but recently have decided to end my diving for personal reasons.  Diving PNW, Caribbean, Asia and numerous other places in and out of the US.  I have sold a lot of my dive gear so far and plan to list my Photo set up soon.

I still enjoy keeping up on what is going on in diving and looking at everyone's pictures

Hello!

My name is Claudia and I'm a PADI Scuba diver and AIDA freediver, I just moved from the UK to Italy.

I'm mostly interested in underwater videography for commercial, short films, and documentary. I'm looking forward to gaining a lot more knowledge about it.

Otherwise, I work as filmmaker on dry land. Would love to start posting my work so far on here if anyone is interested!

Hi everyone,

I’m Kory! I just moved from the north down to Texas, so I’m super excited to dive more than 3 months out of the year. I do a lot of photography on land, and hoping to get my feet wet in underwater photography (pun intended). I love shooting film- so if you have old film stuff please let me know!

I look forward to laughing and learning with you all!

Kory

Hello

On 6/15/2004 at 11:55 AM, james said:

 

Welcome to Wetpixel!

It is the most vibrant, knowledgeable and helpful underwater imaging community in the world. This is largely because the members of the community selflessly share their experience and skill. Please try to contribute yours too.

Please use this topic to write a short introduction to the community.

Once you have done so, this will unlock the ability to create your own topics in almost all the other forums. 

The exception is the Classifieds, which is open to members that have contributed at least 3 posts in any other forums (your post in this topic counts as one of these)

We look forward to your posts!

 

 

Aloha everyone, 

My name is Taj and I'm from Hawaii. I've been shooting for a few years now and I still have lots to learn. I shoot both photo and video and I love to use my work to inspire others. I have a series of short cinematic video episodes I call "Reflections of Hope".  This series is shot all over the world and teaches important life lessons through nature. Here are a few episodes I shot underwater: 

Tiger Sharks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqo5xi91pdo&list=PLYtiLTK7IJ5bqQlm_inufThRp5P8rXQWw&index=23&t=5s

Manta Rays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9DErKaEJ0g&list=PLYtiLTK7IJ5bqQlm_inufThRp5P8rXQWw&index=13

Scuba Diving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvQsmuAmKTc&list=PLYtiLTK7IJ5bqQlm_inufThRp5P8rXQWw&index=12&t=61s

This is my passion and my ministry. I shoot with the Canon 5D Mark4 in the Nauticam housing. My favorite places that I've had the privilege of diving are Palau, Komodo Islands, Guadalupe, Galapagos, Tonga, Tiger Beach, among others. I look forward to connecting and learning from others here on Wetpixel. 

Blessings, 
Taj 

Hi Gang!

My old account and old email from 2006 are lost in the void, so am creating a new one!

Hey everyone! New to the forum but I’ve been a wildlife photographer for some time. Decided 2 years ago to start incorporating diving with photography. I don’t get out as much as I would like to but my most recent trip was in Thailand where I got lucky enough to get some great clown fish shots! I’ll post them once I get near a computer that has them saved. I look forward to reading tips/techniques to make me a better diver and photographer.

Greetings all,

I'm Paul Rooney, living in Sydney, Australia the past 15 years though I was born in Boston and lived, mostly, in eastern Massachusetts with a couple of attempts at Florida and one disastrous foray into living in Texas (great place, great people, I was just unprepared for it at the time). :) 

I'm an avid diver, former PADI instructor and keen underwater photographer, though my camera gear and photo skills, tbh, are a bit on the weak side.

I'm here, mostly, to learn, and hope to pickup a used U/W camera rig.

I also post images from time to time on the wetpixel FB group and drool over the photos taken with gear I can't really afford.

Cheers,

Paul

Hi everybody,

I'm glad to join the Wetpixel community.

I am a wildlife cinematographer. I started diving at 12 before discovering freediving, and finally becoming a rebreather diver allowing me to spend hours underwater without bubbles.

Always passionate about the complexity and richness of marine ecosystems, I first studied marine biology and worked on coral fish larvae in Polynesia, before becoming, over the years, an underwater cinematographer and a wildlife film director.

I started with an independant movie following friends in Alaska, freedivers and photographers too. We were looking to swim with salmon sharks (extract here).

After this first amazing experience, I worked for several nice project like 700 sharks into the night or Under The Pole. I am interested about averythink about video, always trying new rig or adapt some ideas underwater.

On the field, I love feeling all my senses awakening and be torn between the feeling of fear and excitement that come from these intense animal encounters. I aims to melt with the environment, observe without disturbing, to better understand wild behaviours and capture these moments through my camera.

I am specialised in wildlife, you could have an idea of my footage here : Showreel 2020

Happy to learn and share some tips with you on the forum.

6 hours ago, Sedna said:

Hi everybody,

 

I started with an independant movie following friends in Alaska, freedivers and photographers too. We were looking to swim with salmon sharks (extract here).

 

I am specialised in wildlife, you could have an idea of my footage here : Showreel 2020

Happy to learn and share some tips with you on the forum.

 

 

 

Hi

Your first link above seems broken.

The showreel is VERY impressive. Thank you. :?)

bye

15 hours ago, raytrace said:

Hi

Your first link above seems broken.

The showreel is VERY impressive. Thank you. :?)

bye

Thank you,

I don't know why it doesn't work in english but please find attached two extract here in french:

1 minute ago, Sedna said:

Thank you,

I don't know why it doesn't work in english but please find attached two extract here in french:

 

Freediving

and Bear Encounter

Hi.  I'm Katharine.  I live in Alaska and do most of my diving in the Gulf of Alaska and the Arctic.  I am a fisheries oceanographer by training and most of my diving is work related.  I also use independently deployed video and still cameras for research on fish and invertebrates.  I'm always looking for new equipment and techniques to improve my photography, and this looked like an interesting place to be. 

Hi

I am a diver, based West Coast Scotland who enjoys taking underwater photographs 

gb

Hi Everyone,

I am very new to this photography thing, past using a GoPro and want to learn how to use my large setup that I was talked into buying :-/ 

I look forward to listening to all your advice.

Thanks!