A few weeks ago, I went over to see a friend and his baby girl, Ella. Ella has decided that the first issue of Wetpixel Quarterly is her favorite book, and every day, she goes through the issue page by page and studies the full-page photos. I was amazed to find that at 20-months of age, she can name *every* animal in WPQ1!
Check out this video of Ella identifying critters (including a photo of me).
Join Wetpixel’s Shawn Heinrichs and the Liquid Assets team on a chartered adventure to Turks & Caicos this coming September. The Liquid Assets crew will be filming their new dive television pilots and are offering guests the opportunity to witness how their favorite dive programs are filmed and even be part of the next generation of dive television. Every diver that joins will receive free copy of the pilot. This week also offers a non-standard itinerary with visits to rarely explored walls and pinnacles. Wetpixel will be sponsoring a photo competition for guests aboard the Explorer II with winners receiving a cash prize and promotion through Wetpixel and LiquidAssets.
Wetpixel member Jeremy Payne posts a link to his technique for color correcting underwater images exposed with too little strobe light.
Here’s a method that can often return significant natural-looking color to your underwater images that have that blue/green cast. This technique works best with images without a lot of water column and lots of colorful stuff. I’m using Photoshop CS3 for this tutorial, but most of the effects are easy to replicate in other editors.
The results are in from the 2008 Layang Layang Underwater Photo Shootout in Sabah, Malaysia. The winners, whose photographs were judged by well-known underwater photographers Settimio Ciprianni, Stephen Wong, and Rod Klein, received prizes including trips to Palau, Truk, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, dive computers and watches, and Nikon and Sony dSLR’s and video cameras.
Continue for the full press release with the list of winners (including some familiar Wetpixel names!), or visit FiNS Blog for the winning photographs…
Alex Mustard has posted a placeholder in the forums for reports on the Wetpixel Sharks & Dolphins 2008 expedition, from which he has just returned.
OK, so the title turned out to be something of a misnomer - as Jim corrects me – it also included Palm Beach muck diving (Lembeh is now know as poor-man’s Blue Heron Bridge), Gulf Stream night pelagic drift, super macro plankton photography, nocturnal critter hunt on Sugar Wreck, “fishing” for birds as well as more sharks and dolphins than you could shake a stick at. Or in other words, just another amazing Wetpixel/JASA trip.
We can’t wait to see the photos!
Along with Wetpixel’s software upgrade, we have added a special feature to the Team Wetpixel subscription package. Although the upgrade made the forums area much faster (have you noticed?), Team Wetpixel members now get access to a new, low-bandwidth skin that makes browsing and participating in the forums *really* fast.
Team Wetpixel was started as a means for you to support Wetpixel, but we thought that you should get something useful in exchange for your hard-earned dollars. Continue reading to see a video of Team Wetpixel in action.
Hello, readers. Cor Bosman and I have been working for the past couple of days to upgrade the software behind Wetpixel.com to current versions. We are pleased to announce that the upgrade went smoothly!
Please let us know if you experience anything strange while you browse around here. We still need to make the POTW and Maps area fit into the new design, but the home page articles and forum areas are done.
Bilikiki Cruises has announced a final call for entries to their Solomon Islands-themed video competition hosted on YouTube - all footage submissions must be posted by the end of July. If you’ve visited the Solomon Islands on either the MV Bilikiki or MV Spirit of Solomons and filmed video of the trip, you could win a seven night trip on one of the boats, courtesy of Bilikiki Cruises, simply by posting your video to YouTube with “Bilikiki” in the title and visiting the competition submission page.
Entry is free, and there are currently only a few submissions, so this is a great opportunity to win a trip back to a beautiful dive destination. View the latest Bilikiki enius for more details - good luck!
Hello, readers. We’ve just had a last-minute cancellation for a sharks and dolphins trip departing for the Bahamas from Palm Beach, Florida, which leaves tomorrow night at 3am (that’s 3am on Saturday evening / Sunday morning). The trip is led by the esteemed Dr. Alexander Mustard, and is full of jolly Brits.
If you are interested, please e-mail me immediately and leave a phone number I can use to call you back.
Join Alex Mustard’s Digital Underwater Photography workshop in Grand Cayman during Jan 17th-24th, 2009. The focus on this workshop is lighting: understanding, capturing and controlling both strobe and available light. The trip is limited to just 12 people, which provides plenty of time for 1:1 image critique and also a 1:1 pool photo tune-up session. The course also includes photo lectures, interactive seminars, group image review and photographic diving.
Cost is $2,165 USD (excluding flights) for 7 nights accommodation at the luxurious Compass Point Resort, 6 days of diving, social evenings, rental car and high speed Wi-Fi.