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My
winning portfolio
by
Linda Dunk
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Basic
kit is a Nikon 801s in a Subal housing, plus Nikon SB25 flash
in a Cullimore housing with an additional Sea & Sea YS80
slave. All pictures were shot on Fuji Velvia using manual
settings.
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1 was taken using a 24-50 zoom lens, at the 50 end, in Little
Cayman. Lots of these sponges about and I wanted a slightly
different angle, so I shot them from above. This slide started
the concept of "circles" as a theme for the portfolio.
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2 was taken using the 16 mm lens on the Adelaide, off Chesil
Beach, Dorset. Running like a steam train, and my buddy Hilary
D is fighting hard to keep her posiiton within the circular
frame of the wreck structure! I was hanging on another bit
of wreckage with my knees, hoping not to puncture my dry suit!
When I saw it, I thought that this circular bit of wreck and
the 16 mm lens would be well suited to each other.
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3 was taken with the 16 mm lens in Bonaire. These shoaling
scad apparently appear for about 3 weeks every year, and here
it is a matter of getting under the boat, metering the light,
and waiting until the shoal had got into the right circling
position. Incidentally, these fish appear to be more incontinent
tjhan most, and being underneath several thousand of them
looking up was a messy business! The fill flash had to be
held at arm's length to counter backscatter and was stopped
down 2/3 of a stop to avoid burn out.
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4, also in Bonaire, I wanted the evening sun as a "diamond-ring"
effect on the very edge of the Snell's window, and opposite
the small yellow float on the boat's anchor line. |
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5 was taken with the 105 mm lens, and is a standard clam mantle
taken during daylight hours. Can't remember where! |
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6 was taken with a 200 mm lens in the Red Sea and is of Bloch's
big-eye. I prefer to call it "the morning after the night
before".
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