Parting shots

Peter Rowlands · Issue 27, Nov/Dec 2005 · pp. 56

Products mentioned: Magic filters, Nikon D70, Subal housing, 10.5 fisheye lens, Nikon D100, Sea & Sea housing

Parting shots Do you have a nice shot with a short story behind it? If so e mail me and yours could be the next “Parting shot”. peter@uwpmag.com In June this year I was helping Alex Mustard test a variety of filter combinations for what would eventually become his Magic filters. The beauty of these filters is that you don’t use strobes so your camera outfit is small and easy to handle yet you still get very subtle, colourful results. A wreck was the ideal subject to test the filter and I using a 10.5 fisheye lens on a Nikon D70 in a Subal housing, aperture priority @ F5.6. The bows of this wreck lie in about 15 metres and I set the manual white balance on the camera and started to take some shots. Unbeknown to me, a fellow underwater photographer, ‘JP’ Trenque, was just to my right. I took the shot on the left, checked the LCD screen and was pleased with the result. I then took another s…