Parting Shots 1, 2 & 3

Oleg Gaponyuk & Adam Abdul · Issue 113, Mar/Apr 2020 · pp. 68–70

Products mentioned: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM, Olympus Tough TG-4, Big Blue Light, PYGui Pro

Parting Shot 1 The way that led me to this picture is long. In 2001, I fulfilled PADI course in Egypt, and for more than 10 years I had never dived. I didn’t like diving that much then. After that I got involved into panoramic and VR photography, and since then I’ve had certain success. I was obsessed with panoramas and captured them everywhere: on land, underground, in the air, in cars, teapots, microwave ovens, from airplanes, helicopters, air balloons. I used drones and even sent a camera to the stratosphere. And it was only underwater panoramas that I didn’t have. And it was my love to photography that once made me buy a huge and heavy camera housing and go to the Maldives. On my arrival I went to the local diving club and signed up for the earliest possible dive. It’s been ten years since my last dive and I seemed to remember nothing. But my instructor cheered me up that diving is s…