Shooting Magic DVD

Steve Williams · Issue 47, Mar/Apr 2009 · pp. 76–77

Products mentioned: Magic Filters, Shooting Magic DVD, Lightroom

Shooting Magic DVD Alex Mustard and Peter Rowlands have teamed up to produce a 90-minute guide to underwater imaging using their Magic Filters. I had the opportunity to review the first copy to come to the US and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have never used one of the Magic filters and Alex thought it would be good to have a member of his target audience take a look. The DVD is structured around six dives with Alex in his underwater studio that give you the feeling you’re along for the fun. Three DSLR dives and three with a point & shoot camera demonstrate how to make the great images possible with the filters. After each dive, the video follows Alex back on the boat to review the images shot and you’re looking right over his shoulder at the Lightroom software on his laptop as he critiques and tweaks the images. We are taken along for dives on a shallow reef wall in the Red Sea, the wreck …