Shooting Squid

Dan Bolt · Issue 89, Mar/Apr 2016 · pp. 50–52

Products mentioned: Olympus 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro, Aquatica AEM1, Olympus EM-1, Panasonic GM1, Nikon D7200

Cast your mind back to March 2013 and more specifically UWP no.71 – it’s the one with Alex Tattersall’s gorgeous Sea Lion image on the cover. I was electronically thumbing my way through that edition because I re-read UWP back- issues quite often when I’m looking for inspiration. Photographic fashions may come and go, but good technique is an absolute through it all and for me issue no.71 is memorable for a great article by Ryo Minemizu entitled ‘Shooting Ocean Drifters’. In that article Ryo discussed shooting small mid-water critters with a complicated macro lighting setup which produced some very intriguing images. My interest in the techniques discussed back in 2013 was recently rekindled during a night-dive under one of my local piers. The amount of marine life that comes onto the shallow sand at this site is truly amazing and made more so given that most life topside has gone into h…