WuZhiZhou International Underwater Carnival

Once the most common type of imagery captured by underwater photographers, pictures of scuba divers underwater are now somewhat rarer. Alex Mustard and Adam Hanlon discuss why this is the case and provide some pointers about creating memorable images featuring divers.
Reef ID Books has released their Living Shells of the Tropical Indo-Pacific photo guide. Offering an ID to over 1500 shell species. It has ID images of 100 cowrie species and more than 120 allied cowries. Author Andrey Ryanskiy is offering the book as an eBook, via Amazon as a paper edition and Apple as an ePub. To celebrate its publication, he is offering a 20% discount on the eBook.
Adam and Alex discuss underwater sex and how to create beautiful underwater imagery of this iconic behavior. They go on to discuss their belief that images showing the way creatures behave underwater should be not only descriptive but also graphically pleasing.
Keldan has announced that they are now shipping their RC1 Remote Control. It uses sonar and can control the brightness of the company’s 24XR and 18XR lights, has a range of 50m, and works around corners or through walls. Each unit can control 2 lights or 2 groups of lights independently.
Alex](http://www.amustard.com) and Adam discuss how underwater photographers should possibly choose which subjects they should take pictures of and how we can use imagery to help persuade people to protect the oceans. Imagery can motivate people to engage with and to seek to protect the world’s oceans.
Sea&Sea has announced their housing for the Canon EOS R5 mirrorless camera. It is compatible with both RF and EF lenses (with the adaptor), it has a 24mm bulkhead for HDMI 2.0 output. It uses Sea&Sea’s MDX port system and strobe triggering can be via fiber optic or electronic sync.
Water contact optics, designed specifically for underwater imaging, are one of the most interesting developments in underwater imaging. On Wetpixel Live, Alex Mustard and Adam Hanlon run through the various wide angle options that they have used thus far and provide some ideas about how to get the best from them.