Creating pleasing images with inexperienced uw models

Quico Abadal Ramon · Issue 115, Jul/Aug 2020 · pp. 42–47

COVID-19 kicked in, and so all diving activities on the island got completely knocked out. Dive shops closed, boats remained at the pier and the impossibility of renting a tank and have a shore dive made it even more frustrating for those who dream day and night of photographing the ocean, like me. Luckily we did not have any virus case on our little precious paradise, Koh Tao. The island, a teeny-tiny spot on the map, it’s located on the Gulf of Thailand. Very well known among divers and backpackers, it receives a crazy amount of people every year, from which most of them end up as certified divers. The scene changed completely: the streets and reefs of Koh Tao were empty, you could not hear the music from the nightclubs nor the diving boats going out at 6am. Dive sites untouched by human kind for weeks, letting the sea breath for a while. Nothing better for Mother Nature I must say. So…