Beautiful Close-Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures<http://petapixel.com/2013/05/25/beautiful-close-up-underwater-photos-of-luminous-sea-creatures/>
[image: Beautiful Close Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures joshualambus 1] Photographer Joshua Lambus <http://www.jlambus.com/> has put together a beautiful series of photographs showing luminous creaturesof the deep glowing with light against a pitch-black background. The project is titled “ Blackwater <http://www.jlambus.com/SHOP/Blackwater/21106109_mt8RdD>.” The photographs were captured in the ocean during the Hawaii-based photographer’s deep dives. “My photos are to show people things they haven’t seen before… or maybe things they see all the time… in a way they’ve never cared to look,” Lambus writes<http://www.jlambusphoto.com/about/> . Lambus is a veteran of deep dives, having logged hundreds of dives for both personal and commercial purposes. The dives are held in the darkness of the night in water that is thousands of feet deep. Lambus ventures deep under the surface to photograph the animals as they float by. In an interview with Underwater Photography Guide<http://www.uwphotographyguide.com/featured-artist-joshua-lambus>, Lambus compares photographing the faintly glowing creatures to taking pictures of a piece of aluminum foil and a piece of plastic wrap in a your closet with the lights out. If you can photograph them in focus and well exposed, then you’re fit for this type of underwater photography. Does your camera focus well in low light? If not are you good at manual focus? Which is better? Next is lighting. Best positions for strobes? How do you light up your subject without lighting up the rest of the plankton around it? Do you expose for the reflective part of your subject or the transparent part? How do you do both? How comfortable are you with knowing where the controls are on your camera? Because at night you can’t see what you’re doing, and you better have a good hold on that camera because if you drop it you don’t get it back. Trust me. [#<http://www.uwphotographyguide.com/featured-artist-joshua-lambus> ] In terms of gear, Lambus uses high-end Canon and Nikon DSLRs protected by various underwater housings. Here are some of the beautiful photographs found in the series: [image: Beautiful Close Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures joshualambus 2] [image: Beautiful Close Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures joshualambus 3] [image: Beautiful Close Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures joshualambus 4] [image: Beautiful Close Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures joshualambus 5] [image: Beautiful Close Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures joshualambus 6] [image: Beautiful Close Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures joshualambus 7] [image: Beautiful Close Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures joshualambus 8] [image: Beautiful Close Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures joshualambus 9] [image: Beautiful Close Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures joshualambus 10] [image: Beautiful Close Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures joshualambus 11] [image: Beautiful Close Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures joshualambus 12] [image: Beautiful Close Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures joshualambus 13] [image: Beautiful Close Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures joshualambus 14] [image: Beautiful Close Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures joshualambus 15] You can find more of Lambus work over on his personal website<http://www.jlambus.com/>and in his portfolio <http://www.jlambus.com/SHOP>. Blackwater by Joshua Lambus<http://www.jlambus.com/SHOP/Blackwater/21106109_mt8RdD>(via My Modern Met<http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/joshua-lambus-underwater-photography-blackwater>via Laughing Squid<http://laughingsquid.com/blackwater-photos-of-luminous-squids-jellyfish-and-other-underwater-creatures-by-joshua-lambus/> ) _ *".... I am the KING to my own UNIVERSE that Rule my MIND, BODY and SOUL!!! ...." * ** *- Aga Madjid -* -- -- you have this email because you join to "aga-madjid" GoogleGroups. to post emails, just send to : [email protected] to join this group, send blank email to : [email protected] to quit from this group, just send email to : [email protected] please visit to www.facebook.com/aga.madjid, add my Yahoo Messenger at [email protected] or add my twitter @aga_madjid thanks for joinning this group. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "aga-madjid" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
