Parting Shot

Peter Rowlands · Issue 138, May/Jun 2024 · pp. 69

Products mentioned: Pentax LX, Hugyfot housing, Subatec S100, Ikelite Substrobe 50, Cokin filter holder, Kodak Ektachrome 64

Do you have a shot which has a story within a story? If so e mail it with up to 500 words of text and yours could be the next Parting Shot. peter@uwpmag.com (It’s very easy. Images can be any size bigger than 20cm (horizontal or vertical) @ 150dpi saved as jpeg format and about 500 - 750 words would be fine.) Since none of you have submitted any Parting Shots for this issue, it falls on me to fill this space from UwP91. This shot was taken in the early 1980s in the waters around Plymouth, Devon, England. I’d had this idea to backlight macro subjects with a variety of coloured filters over the second strobe (we called them flashguns in those days) with the main strobe providing front lighting. I attached a Cokin filter holder to the front of the backlighting strobe so that I could slot in and remove squares of coloured Perspex (alright Plexiglas if you must). This strobe was out on an ext…