Walt Stearns: Florida’s Palm Beach Coast
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Lightroom Texture Adjustment for underwater photographers
Wetpixel offers an early guide to the new Texture slider that was launched in the most recent release of Adobe’s Lightroom Classic app. Offering a subtle way of enhancing details in an image, it seems to add contrast to mid-frequency areas of an image. This is ideally suited for correcting the inherent softness caused by shooting through water and the optics we use to do so. As a negative local adjustment, the new tool is an effective way of dealing with backscatter too.
Helen Pananggung of Lembeh Foundation: Blue Green Personality of the Year
The Blue Green Awards are presented at the annual ADEX Show in Singapore. Sarah Ann Wormald profiles the very worthy recipient of the “Personality of the Year” award. Lembeh Foundation’s Helen Pananggung is a human dynamo, motivating, persuading, cajoling and sometimes dragging (!) her community to embrace new ways of both reducing waste and upcycling the existing trash discarded in the area. Congratulations Helen!
DJI announces Osmo Action camera
Aerial imaging giant, DJI, has announced its entry into the Action cam market with the Osmo Action camera. Natively waterproof to 11 meters (36 feet), it has a 1/2.3-inch sensor the records 4K video up to 60fps at 100Mbp. It also features electronic image stabilization and HDR at 4K/30fps.
Paper emphasizes social media and citizen science in marine research
A paper published in the “Regional Studies in Marine Science” has emphasized how the combination of social media, underwater photography and citizen science can provide insights into the study of the marine environment.
Backscatter reviews the Panasonic LX100 II
Wetpixel sponsor Backscatter Underwater Photo and Video have posted an excellent review of the underwater performance of the Panasonic LX100 mark II compact camera. The camera features a Micro 4/3 sensor, significantly larger than the 25 mm sensors on most high-performance compact cameras. The review notes that using wet lenses allows for a sufficient range of focal lengths and that the wide angle performance of the camera was found by the reviewers to be very good.
Issue 35 of Anima Mundi magazine available
Issue 35 of Anima Mundi magazine is now available to download. The July issue features articles about the Galapagos Archipelago, the Sri Lankan highlands, a portfolio of images from Bjorn Olesen, and a feature about diving with great hammerheads.
May issue of X-Ray Magazine available
Issue 91 of X-Ray Magazine is available to download. The May 2019 edition features articles on Timor Leste, Guadalupe, Mexico, icebergs, cave diving at Bjurälraven and Scapa Flow. Fibonacci sequences in underwater photography are investigated in the underwater Photography column, along with the impact of flash photography on fish. Lastly a portfolio of Masayo Fukuda’s stunning paper sculptures of marine life.
Seacam announces lens support for Laowa lenses
Seacam has released images of two new specific lens solution they are producing for use with Laowa lenses. Firstly, they company has produced a housing for the Laowa 24mm f/14 2X Macro Probe. Secondly they have announced port support for the Laowa 15mm f/4 Wide Angle Macro.
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Sony updates firmware for: a9, a7R III, a7 III, a7R II, a7S II,… (via )
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Nikon updates D500 “C” firmware to version 1.2 (via )
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Sony updates a7/a7R III firmware to version 3.0 (via )
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Adobe updates Lightroom and Camera RAW (via )
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