Underwater Love

Rosie Anderson · Issue 79, Jul/Aug 2014 · pp. 43–47

Products mentioned: Nikon D7100, Tokina 10-17mm lens, Zen 100mm mini dome, Zen 200mm dome, Orcalight Seawolf A2260, Inon Z240 flash, Bowens Gemini flash units, Nauticam housing

First off I’d like to say all this underwater photography malarkey is new to me. I’m, I guess you could say, a fine art wedding photographer to trade. I’d never even considered taking an underwater photo series until I saw a beautiful Chagall painting of a couple merging in a embrace into a deep blue watery canvas. It was such a quick step in my mind – “I could do that with a couple underwater!”, I thought “how hard could it be?” Pretty hard as it turned out. So first the technical bit - straight of the bat I must admit I got some help. My husband, Doug Anderson, is an underwater cameraman who does quite a bit of work for the natural history unit of the BBC. He was pretty useful for the kit. I used his D7100 with a Tokina 10-17mm lens. Doug only has the Zen 100mm mini dome (it’s easier to travel with I think) and I wasn’t that keen on the distortion on it so I borrowed a 200mm Zen dome f…