Another Day at The Office!

Paul Ives · Issue 21, Oct/Nov 2004 · pp. 39–43

Products mentioned: Fujifilm S2 Pro, Sea&Sea Housing, Sea&Sea YS-120 strobes, Nikkor 16mm fisheye lens, Nikkor 60mm micro lens, Nikon D1

Another Day at The Office! by Paul Ives Almost 20 years as a freelance advertising and commercial photographer has taken me to some interesting places and never ceases to offer endless challenges and job satisfaction. None more so than my recent visit to the sharks in Elsmere Port – the Blue Planet Aquarium in Elsmere Port that is! This promised to be a particularly tough assignment. This was to be my second visit to the Aquarium. I had been commissioned by Blue Planetʼs advertising agency to shoot some new underwater images for a large 48 sheet promotional poster and to go into a revamp of the Aquariumʼs guidebooks and promotional literature. On my first shoot, I had encountered many problems, largely from the low light levels in and around the tanks. Although to the visitor in the viewing tunnel, the lighting seemed bright, the tank lights themselves were deceptively low-powered. Witho…