Parting Shot

Peter Rowlands · Issue 126, May/Jun 2022 · pp. 60

Products mentioned: Magic Filters, Dive+

Parting Shot by Peter Rowlands On a recent dive in my backyard of Plymouth, UK, I came across this charming lobster and went to take a photograph, only to find that my woeful lack of camera preperation became immediately apparent when I discovered that my flip in colour correcting filter (Magic, of course!) had jammed so I reverted to Plan B only to find that my small video light was not charged. Talk about “All the gear and no idea!” Anyway, undeterred, and thinking that any image was better than none, I took a few shots and moved on. It was only when I got home and had fixed the flip filter and put my video light on charge did I remember the excellent app Dive+ which provides a one click solution to restore the colour and the result shown below is straight from the app. It’s probably a bit too colourful for most tastes but there is a slider adjustment to wind the colour back a notch or…