
After-movie of the Alex Mustard workshop in Zeeland (NL)
#1
Posted 13 August 2010 - 03:19 AM
This is the official after-movie of the workshop weekend with Alex Mustard in Zeeland (Netherlands) from 6-8 of August 2010.
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#2
Posted 13 August 2010 - 04:15 AM
... starring the doctor...
Nice boat, too (and no sloshing from side to side)!
... AND SeaCam photo-porn!
Tim

#4
Posted 13 August 2010 - 07:55 AM


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#5
Posted 13 August 2010 - 09:42 AM
"He's finally coming"
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Get your mind out of the gutter, Steve.

Looks like a great time! Attending one of Alex's workshops is definitely on my to-do list!
Bruce Yates
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#6
Posted 14 August 2010 - 01:27 AM
"He's finally coming"
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Great. And now it is on the front page too!

It was a really enjoyable workshop - although I didn't dive as much as I wanted as I hurt my back on the first night - so decided not to aggravate it further (it is fine again now).
The workshop was in Grevelingen lake - which is a marine lake (salty, but non-tidal). The visibility was poor 2-4m (6-12ft), but the amount of life was amazing. The number of (clawed) lobsters is beyond belief - 100s per dive - the more you swim the more you can see!
The photographic challenge was to produce striking images in the low visibility, particularly as most of the creatures like to pose on the mud/sandy bottom. The favoured approach was using a single strobe, fitted with a snoot (but not a spotlight snoot - a much wider one) to create a single source, hard, directional light. This allowed us to create clean images, with black backgrounds (even when the background was mud), such as the example, below, which is a screen grab of a lobster from Lightroom - to show what can be achieved in camera:

Alexander Mustard - www.amustard.com - www.magic-filters.com
Nikon D5 (Subal housing). Nikon D7200 (Subal housing). Olympus EPL-5 (Nauticam housing).
#7
Posted 14 August 2010 - 02:17 AM

Join us for an Underwater Photography Workshop in the Lembeh Strait at NAD Lembeh with Doug Sloss in 2018
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#8
Posted 14 August 2010 - 04:12 AM
There are plenty female UW photographers who shoot in cold water, but my tropical trips definitely tend to have a more even male/female ratio. My manatee trip this year was 70% female participants!
Alex
Alexander Mustard - www.amustard.com - www.magic-filters.com
Nikon D5 (Subal housing). Nikon D7200 (Subal housing). Olympus EPL-5 (Nauticam housing).
#9
Posted 18 August 2010 - 10:18 AM
For my Cayman workshops in January 2011 the weeks looks like this:
Week 1 (still 4 spots to fill):
girls 60%, boys 40%
Week 2 (full)
girls 58%, boys 42%
Alex
Alexander Mustard - www.amustard.com - www.magic-filters.com
Nikon D5 (Subal housing). Nikon D7200 (Subal housing). Olympus EPL-5 (Nauticam housing).
#10
Posted 18 August 2010 - 05:59 PM

Join us for an Underwater Photography Workshop in the Lembeh Strait at NAD Lembeh with Doug Sloss in 2018
Blog and Photo Archive/Portfolio Site www.mikeveitchblog.com
Learn underwater photography in the ultimate classroom, Bali! or join us on a trip www.underwatertribe.com and www.baliuwphoto.com
Join us for a trip in Indonesia in Komodo or Raja Ampat
#11
Posted 18 August 2010 - 10:03 PM

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