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My Portfolio
by Martyn Guess
My theme for this portfolio was
sunbeams.
All the images were taken at St Johns and Dangerous
Reefs in the southern Red Sea last year on a Photo trip with Martin
Edge. The diver in the three bottom shots is my wife Sue who has
become a really good underwater model and can follow my erratic hand
signals!
To get the best sunbeams the shots were taken
around midday. We stayed at the sites for 2.5 days and I dived
probably 7or 8 times so I got to know the various caves well and
where the best sunbeams were likely to be.
I use a Subal housing for my Nikon D300 with twin
Inon Strobes. The lens used was the Tokina 10-17mm. I used an ISO of
400 in the darker caves and combined this with relatively slow
shutter speeds to maximise the impact of the sunbeams in the darker
caves. In the cave with diver shots I used a smaller aperture to get the blue of the background sea
correct.
The images are pretty much what came out of the
camera with a little levels and curves adjustment in Photoshop CS3
having first selected the images and converted the raw files and
sharpened the images in Lightroom 2
From left to right across the top of the
portfolio:
Image 1 ISO 400 1/20th at F6.7 lens at
10mm
Image 2 ISO 400 1/15th at F8 lens at 13mm
Image 3 ISO 400 1/20th at F6.7 lens at
10mm
Image 4 ISO 200 1/90th at F6.7 lens at 14mm
Image 5 ISO 400 1/30th at f6.7 lens at
13mm
Image 6 ISO 200 1/125th at F8 lens at 14mm
"I was delighted to win the Theme portfolio
competition this year having come 5th last year and 4th in 2007".
Martyn specialises in underwater photography
although he is also a keen landscape and animal photographer too. He
has been diving for over 15 years and has taken photographs
underwater since 1997.
He is a Martin Edge student and has been on many
photoquest trips with Martin to some exotic locations around the
world.
Based in Dorking Surrey Martyn is a property
developer. Due to tough market conditions over the last 2 years I
have found myself with more time on my hands to search through images
taken on my various trips and to build my website and plan the next
diving trip.
To see more of Martyns images please visit www.martynguessphotography.com
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