Fashion is the new fashion

Staff · Issue 79, Jul/Aug 2014 · pp. 4

Editorial Fashion is the new fashion There have been many, many ‘fashions’ in underwater photography as people try and produce images which are different and more eyecatching. If you cast your mind back (which I unfortunately can) you will remember the craze for putting a red filter over your flash/strobes to achieve a highly coloured foreground. This became overdone and they were soon the first shots into the bin in competitions. Then there was conventional land filters with split prisms, grads, spot focus and blur, all of which lacked subtlety and soon faded away. Possibly one of the most groundbreaking fashions was ‘double exposures’ where part of the film was exposed, then rewound and reloaded to expose the other part to produce an exciting combination of scale or forced composition. Despite heralding from the film era I think it is still a relavent technique today and much simpler t…