Dancing with Light

Leigh Bishop · Issue 30, May/Jun 2006 · pp. 33–39

Products mentioned: Nikon F90x, Aquatica housing, Velbon video tripod, Agfa Scala 200x, Kodak Tmax 3200

Diving deep shipwrecks is a demanding past time, photographing them presents an even more technical and task laden challenge. Frustrated by ever-present backscatter Leigh Bishop explains why he swapped his strobes for a tripod and took the ambient light monochrome option. The incredible infrastructure of shipwrecks that lie on the seabed around the world represents thousands of actual known sites, certainly a Mecca for wreck divers indeed. With a fair share of these wrecks a little on the deep side and as temperate as certain waters can be, the odds of capturing that ‘Big’ image of our rich maritime history’ is stacked against us. As they say there’s a means and a way around everything and abnormal as it may sound if setting a tripod & housing system up at a depth of 230ft/70m then shouting orders at your models is the way around, well then so be it. Deeper shipwrecks impose so many prob…