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Divetrip to Marsa Shagra, Red Sea, Egypt
Recently spend a week combining my favorite hobbies - Travel, Diving and photography. This time I went to a dive camp in the Egyptian desert bordering the red sea. This i a cool place where you sleep in tents and have free access to all the diving you want.
Underwater photography is what opened the world of photography to me and although it is my favorite kind of photography it is also the most challenging kind and at times frustrating. I find it, in many ways, similar to street, in that you can do some planning but once in the water you can either find a nice frame for your shot and then wait for something of interest to enter the frame, or you are set your camera to what you think may happen and then shoot the moment. Most of the time I shot the moment because diving with a buddy, who does not do UW photography, I find I test his patience too much when I am waiting for someting interesting to enter my precomposed frame.
One thing I learned is that I need to get better at telling a story with UW photgraphy i.e. get the subject in an interesting situation and get some of the habitat and surroundings in the shot as well. Too often I go for something close up, fish portrait style, but I find after this trip I prefer shots that dont just show a beatiful marine animal.
I also did a bit of Cavediving photography which was quite fun - for this I killed the flash as I really liked the natural light in the caves, but that meant cranking the ISO to 3200 which was a bit of a challenge because of the rather dark caves - I would have liked to play around with settings a bit, but in a cave where you dive from one end to the other theres only limited time to hang around playing with camera settings, so back to the street photo style of shooting.
Here are a few of the shots that turned out best - all shot on the EPL-5 with the 9-18mm Oly.17Feb 17, 2019 -
Calgary Central Library
This past weekend we travelled down to Calgary to take part in a Coffee and Cameras event at the new Calgary Central Library. The event was organized by The Camera Store and involved having a coffee and then spending time photographing the interior of the building. We had about three hours before doors were opened to the public so the only people in there were about 30 photographers and a couple of staff. This made for an enjoyable Sunday mornings outing as the weather was fine for travelling and having access with no-one around made for a good event.
17Mar 11, 2019 -
The Shedd Aquarium in Chicago
The Shedd was free for Illinois residents on Friday, and so my buddy and I went to check it out. Took all of these photos with my EM-1 and the Olympus 25mm f1.8. I was shooting through glass most of the time, but I was surprised with how well these came out.
12Feb 25, 2019 -
A Balloon Ride in Kapadokya
Several years ago my wife and I visited our son, who was then living in Turkey for a seven-month period of study of the language. With our son as translator, we took a side trip to Kapadokya (Cappadocia) and succumbed to the opportunity for a balloon ride.
The balloons fly each morning with acceptable conditions. One morning we rode, one morning we watched. It’s a great show, either way. Only one problem – to go riding you have to be up at zero-dark o’clock. Luckily, if you book through the hotel, the balloon companies provide shuttle service.
Preparing the balloon in the dawn twilight. This is noisy, labor-intensive business. The burner mounted on the tipped gondola is being used to finish the fill of the envelope which will, in turn, pull the gondola upright., and we are...14Mar 10, 2019 -
some birds with em1.2 and 300f/4
Got the 300 f/4 on loan from olympus india just to try my hands on and found it really good at some point . Yet I am more used to the traditional cameras for long lenses or focal length trying to find the best setting suites for those local birds.
14Feb 28, 2019 -
Fine Art Photo Event
Hello fellow m4/3 users.
Last week I had the pleasure to participate in a photo event organized by my favourite local photo group.
It was a nice afternoon shooting in the facilities and surroundings of an old abandoned factory.
The sun was not to bright because the sky was partially cloudy, but was enough to get decent light even inside a warehouse.
About 20 photographers were present and I didn't spotted any other photographer using m43 besides me.
I've used the following gear:
Olympus OMD EM5 Mark II
Olympus OMD EM10 Mark II
Olympus M.Zuiko 75mm f/1.8
Olympus M.Zuiko 45mm f/1.8
Pana-Leica Summilux 25mm f/1.4
I brought my Godox TT685o with me but I never felt the need (or I was a bit lazy) to use it.
I forgot my reflector at home, so all photos were shot using the available light.
All photos were edited in Photoshop.
Credits and Exif are in the linked files on Flickr.20Feb 24, 2019
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