Hello, I’m Daniel. Welcome to the home of my Catalina Island underwater photo galleries.
When I first started out shooting underwater photos, people warned me, oh you can’t take shots with natural lighting unless you are shooting very shallow and in perfect visibility. To prove this they would show me photos they had taken without strobes and flashes saying “see, this is all you’ll get, washed out green pics of nothing.”
Coming from an imaging and pre-press background, the shots they showed me looked similar to old, faded, washed out photos or bad scans of old photos. Having a professional background repairing and salvaging bad photos, I went ahead and bought my first rig without an expensive strobe set up, to see what photoshop could do before shelling out for my first strobe.
I was immediately surprised at the results, and so was everybody else. Now with some practice I’ve distilled my underwater photoshop techniques into what I consider to be a solid and studied working method that brings out remarkable photos from shots that at first glance seem hopeless.
Although as of late, the economy has been giving both me and my underwater photo hobby the pinch. So I decided that the next best thing to getting out into the sea for some real action, would be to revamp my existing underwater photo web site and write about a few things that interest me.
This blog is all about underwater photography, color correction, and using Photoshop to enhance, improve, and even salvage underwater photos. Sit back and enjoy, and please view my photo galleries and movies. I will be adding a few at a time, from my oldest to my newest. I also have some new galleries and movies never posted on my previous site.
to the home of my underwater scuba photo galleries. Check out my photos and movies and see how and why I use software like Photoshop, Final Cut and Aftereffects to color correct my images and video clips.
