Panoramas

Martin Broen · Issue 132, May/Jun 2023 · pp. 52–53

Products mentioned: Sony a7rIII, Canon 8-15mm, BigBlue 15000 lumen light, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop

I love shooting underwater landscapes and panoramas as they are particularly challenging from the lighting and stitching but amazing for their textures and impact. Indeed, I won both the Second Place in the Amateur Category as well as the Second Place in the open Category of the 2022 Epson Pano Awards, both with underwater images! The Second place Open Category is of the caves of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. the biggest underwater river system in the world, a never-ending labyrinth of tunnels and chambers decorated with incredible formations Venturing into the caves to capture their beauty is a fine balance of diving and photo skills and risk management. Shooting even minutes or hours away from the safe exit to surface, in pitch black conditions while you running out of gas. This is a x 5 photo panorama stitch, Shoot with a Sony a7rIII and Canon 8-15mm at 1/12 sec handheld underwater, …