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Underwater Photography
Mar/Apr 2018
Issue 101
UwP
An experience
without equal
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where all the indulgences of a five-star
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Our dive team and private guides
ensure your in-water experiences are
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interests. Your underwater encounters
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While at the resort, or on board the
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~ Kate Pagdget-Koh
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Issue 101/2
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Contents
4
Editorial
5
News Travel & Events
30
UPY 2018
by Peter Rowlands
Underwater Photography
A web magazine
44
Weefine Ring lights
by Phil Rudin
UwP101 Mar/Apr 2018
55
Ghosts of the reef
by Klaus M. Stiefel
13
New Products
61
Book review
37
Nikon D850
by the Backscatter staff
50
Paralenz review
by Dan Bolt
82
Parting Shot
by Peter Rowlands
by Richard Shucksmith
Underwater Photography
2001 - 2018
Cover shot by
Grant Thomas
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Competitions
20% of those who entered
UPY 2018 are going to agree with
almost everything I am about to say
and just over 2% of those will agree
with everything because they won a
Category in UPY 2018 and the other
18% were in the top 110 images.
That leaves 80% who may
already have stopped reading
because, for the moment, they think
competitions really suck; and that’s
perfectly understandable.
After UPY 2017, the percentages
would have been about the same; it
would be just a different set of names.
Euphoric last year, despondent this.
In addition I have always said
that if UPY 2018 was judged on
another a day, the top ten images in
each category would almost certainly
be the same but the order might not.
That’s purely because we are all
slightly different day to day and that
is the nature of a competition. It’s
all about how the judges felt at that
particular time.
So far I’ve still not written
anything that will appease the 80%
but, as (I think) the late great fashion
photographer Terence Donovan said
“It’s all about having an opinion”.
By entering a competition all you
are doing is asking for the judges’
opinions.
Editorial
LED flashguns
One thing’s for sure with
technology; it will happen eventually.
When the humble LED first
appeared it was greeted with initial
amazement. Instant on/off, no
filament, low current, low heat, a
choice of colours and very simple
i.e positive/minus, On/Off. As with
all new developments they were
expensive at first and then the price
tumbled as production could be
ramped up to supply demand.
Fast forward nearly four decades
and that simple device has been
developed beyond all recognition
so that now, in the underwater
photographic world, we have LED
lights which are extremely bright
but which, for the first time, can also
replace traditional flashguns.
It’s true that at present their
output in terms of light duration is not
as fast as a traditional flashgun and
they do not yet have the sophistication
of TTL capability but, as I said at the
beginning, it will happen eventually.
Green Planet 1
It always hacks me off when I
hear that a friend of mine not 10 miles
away has had a free upgrade of his
broadband speed from 100 to 200
mbps when I still have to get by with a
measly 8mbps at best. Wouldn’t it be
fairer firstly for me to be upgraded to
16mbps (which I’d be delighted with)
and then, the 100’s could have their
200?
I will admit that I had a similar
hack when Blue Planet II came out.
Now don’t get me wrong, BP II has
been an absolute joy; a great flag
bearer for our world and which has
started the global awareness of the
plastic peril (more on that in a minute)
but I’d be much happier if they
produced a Green Planet 1 first before
committing funds to BP II.
Sure, blue water covers most of
our marine area but it’s green relative
is no less amazing visually and is
equally well off in terms of inhabitants
and stories.
With today’s incredible video
cameras and their high ISO and
SloMo capabilities coupled with high
output LED lighting, green could
surely be the new blue?
Planet Plastic
I feel vindicated about
accusing us of falsely presenting the
underwater world as too colourful,
healthy and perfectly natural when the
truth is, in some areas, there is a really
big problem; plastic pollution.
My argument was that if the
general public ‘saw’ it, they’d ‘get it’
but it took the non threatening tones
of Sir Attenborough in the final series
of Blue Planet II together with honest
images to finally persuade the world
at large, and much more importantly,
the media, that this was becoming
crucial. It’s a bit like you’d listen to
your grandad but no way was your
dad right!
The result of such an approach
has been, for the time being, seismic
and long may it continue. Only people
power will make commerce pay
attention and only education including
truthful images will bring about long
term and permanent change.
There’s a long way to go but
we’ve also suddenly come a long way.
peter@uwpmag.com
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Peter Rowlands
Issue 101/4
News, Travel & Events
Celebrate the Sea Festival
Manado, North Sulawesi
31 March to 4 April 2018
Ocean Geographic is pleased to
announce the 13th Celebrate the Sea
Festival in Manado, North Sulawesi
from 31 March to 4 April 2018.
Previously staged in association with
the World Festival of Underwater
Pictures, (Le Festival Mondial de
l’Image Sous-Marine – Marseille)
from 2002 to 2013, Celebrate the
Sea was known as one of the most
significant underwater photographic
events in the world outside Europe.
The 2018 festival in Manado will
take place in conjunction with the 5th
annual ‘Ocean Geographic Pictures of
the Year’ competition.
The festival will open on 31
March 2018 with a full-day keynote
conference by a panel of international
speakers, together with an opening
ceremony hosted by the
provincial government
of North Sulawesi. Past
presenters at Celebrate the
Sea include some of the world’s most
prominent luminaries in underwater
imaging and science, including: Stan
Waterman, David Doubilet, Jennifer
Hayes, Ron & Valerie Taylor, Dr
Sylvia Earle, Dr Phil Nyutten, Howard
and Michele Hall, Peter Scoones,
Dr Gerry Allen, Emory Kristof,
Michael AW, Dr Carden Wallace, Dr
Lindsay Porter, Howard Shaw, Neville
Coleman, Leandro Blanco and Dr
Mark Erdmann to name just a few.
Without doubt, the luminaries for 2018
will be equally impressive.
The principal highlight of the
2018 festival is the international
underwater shoot-out competition.
With cash and holiday prize monies
value at around USD 35,000 spread
over five categories, it may be the
most lucrative shoot-out competition
in the world. The overall winner will
be named ‘Master of the Competition’
with a cash bounty of IDR 66 million
(about USD 5,000). Prizes are funded
by the provincial government of
Manado and supporting resorts of
the North Sulawesi Watersports
Association.
Competition participants can
submit entries into the five categories
taken on a maximum of 10 qualifying
dives in their chosen supporting
resort from 1-3 April. Cameras must
be set to the correct Manado time
and date before diving commences.
Only material from up to 10 dives
can be submitted to the competition.
Participants can arrive earlier, or
undertake more than 10 dives between
1-3 April, to be arranged directly with
their chosen resort.
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