Moogyboy
Contributor
hey all
I've been meaning to ask this for a while...I am personally very partial to photos featuring divers interacting with the undersea environment, sea life, etc. Admittedly I was brainwashed early from admiring the photos in National Geographic and, later, Skin Diver. Stephen Frink comes to mind--wide angle, dramatic lighting, a (usually female) diver looking at some sea critter, you get the idea.
This kind of stuff seems to be a lost art form anymore; all the serious underwater photographers seem to concentrate on macro photos of coral and fish, and divers only pop up in informal snapshots.
I know that the wildlife is the thing that matters; perhaps the diver photo is a relic of a more peoplecentric era? Or maybe they're simply intended more for advertising/marketing/stock use, ie commerce driven. For average people, a closeup of a nudibranch is probably real boring. A hot model diving...not boring.
I'm curious if you guys have any thoughts on this, or if any of you like to use people in your photos as a matter of course.
cheers
Billy S.
I've been meaning to ask this for a while...I am personally very partial to photos featuring divers interacting with the undersea environment, sea life, etc. Admittedly I was brainwashed early from admiring the photos in National Geographic and, later, Skin Diver. Stephen Frink comes to mind--wide angle, dramatic lighting, a (usually female) diver looking at some sea critter, you get the idea.
This kind of stuff seems to be a lost art form anymore; all the serious underwater photographers seem to concentrate on macro photos of coral and fish, and divers only pop up in informal snapshots.
I know that the wildlife is the thing that matters; perhaps the diver photo is a relic of a more peoplecentric era? Or maybe they're simply intended more for advertising/marketing/stock use, ie commerce driven. For average people, a closeup of a nudibranch is probably real boring. A hot model diving...not boring.
I'm curious if you guys have any thoughts on this, or if any of you like to use people in your photos as a matter of course.
cheers
Billy S.