Editorial: Horses for courses

Staff · Issue 87, Nov/Dec 2015 · pp. 4

Products mentioned: Magic Filter

Editorial Horses for courses Mr Mustard and I recently returned from a most enjoyable week’s diving the Santa Barbara area of California which includes kelp forests, sea lions and, believe it or not, diving under a working oil rig. Can you imagine getting permission to do that in the UK?! But I digress. The point is we were both diving the magnificent kelp forests off Santa Barbara Island in near perfect conditions - he was shooting with strobes and I, as is usual, was shooting video using available light and a Magic Filter. We were both having a great time photographically but Alex was finding that he was having to use much higher strobe powers to light up the wide scenery and the light absorbing kelp which was shrouded by a dense layer at the surface. I on the other hand had the advantage of shooting video which, for some reason unknown to me, is capable of capturing moving images by a…