Category: Scuba Diving (non-photography)
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Add Electric Effects To Your Underwater Photos: A Topaz Glow Review
Topaz Glow doesn’t just leave your photos with the lights-in-the-tree twinkle. I mean, it can. But where Glow really shines (ahem) is in making an in-your-face, red-light-district, girls-girls-girls neon effect. It’s an acid trip. It’s the reflections of traffic lights at night in the rain. And it’s so, so rad.
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Cartoonize Your Photos with Topaz Clean
You’re not going to be using Topaz Clean on all of your photos. It’s not going to be one of your workhorse apps that becomes an essential part of your workflow, like Topaz Detail is. But if you want to do something different, and spice up your photos with a cool, cartoony, vector-art-type effect, you…
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Topaz Detail for Underwater Photos: A Review
There are lots of Topaz Detail reviews floating around, but none (so far as I could find, anyway) specifically catering to underwater photos. Curious to find what it could do for my stuff, I dug up a handful of photos I had previously deemed “finished” and ran them through Detail. I was pleasantly surprised! Read…
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How to Remove Backscatter: The Fastest Way to Improve Your Underwater Photos
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking about technical diving and underwater photography to the Whalers Dive Club in Canoga Park, California. It was a great crowd, and the attendees were every speaker’s dream: they both laughed at my jokes and asked engaged, thoughtful questions! One of the questions that stood out, and that…
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Poor Handling of San Diego Seahorse Spotting
San Diego journalist grips seahorse; NBC publishes photo
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Wednesday Roundup: “Vegetarian” Vampire Squid, Solar Powered Nudibranchs, and a SEA TURTLE in San Diego!
Happy New Year! In case you need a break from the endless reruns of the Rose Parade, you’re killing time until the football game starts, or you’re just plain too hung over to do anything but mindlessly click links on the Web, I’m here for you.
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Wednesday Link Roundup: Bucket list sea life, unexpected dive destinations, Bali diving
In Diver’s bucket list: 6 rare marine creatures and where to see them, Christina Koukkos outlines her top six “bucket list” sea creatures. Of these, I’ve seen four…
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Wednesday roundup: Feliz Nudidad! Benthic ecology on lost shipping containers!
An animated GIF of a nudibranch in the snow might be the funniest thing ever.
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Wednesday Link Roundup: Muck Diving in the Philippines, Shooting Supermacro with Wet Diopters, Diving Cleopatra’s Sunken Palace
Happy Thanksgiving! I’m spending the next week and a half in Anilao, Philippines, one of the muck diving Meccas of the world. Muck diving is so named for the muddy bottom composition at the dive site. This sediment is home to a host of exotic critters, such as nudibranchs, frogfish, pygmy seahorses, and blue ringed…
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Wednesday Links: Should I buy a pony bottle, why regulators leak, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book, and shark socks
I’m completely behind on editing and writing up a lot of cool photos that I really want to do justice to. So while I’m getting through my backlog, I figured I’d deviate from the formula a bit (read: procrastinate a bit longer) and instead compile a few of the things I deemed worth reading this…