Parting Shots

Dan Bolt & Attila Kaszo · Issue 92, Sep/Oct 2016 · pp. 76–77

Products mentioned: GreenWater Magic Filter, Olympus OM-D EM-1, Panasonic 8mm fisheye, Nikon D800, Nauticam D800 housing

Parting Shot 1 Like many of my underwater photographer buddies, I too love shooting gorgeous wide-angle scenes and meeting the challenge of balancing natural light with the artificial light introduced by my strobes. Something I’ve never really given much time to as an alternative to powerful strobes on long arms while shooting wide-angle, is the use of filters. I’ve actually had a GreenWater Magic Filter for a number of years but can count on one hand the number of times I’ve actually taken it out of its little plastic sleeve. On a recent boat dive hosted by this magazine’s esteemed editor himself, I thought I would take the opportunity to quiz Peter’s unsurpassed knowledge about how to get the best out of filter photography in the UK. The first dive was a fairly straight-forward affair and precisely the conditions that the Magic-Filter works best in; 20m down with 8m or more vis the fil…