![]() Coming back to your shitty apartment and a place you don’t want to be but have to, ( □ ), it’s time for post processing. So you emptied your bank account, got divorced and you have been to Raja Ampat. And if you go for the High End DSLR gear like the Sony A7R mk3, A9 Mk2, Canon 1Dx Mk2 and more, think about 10,000USD. Adding flash, strobes, lights, filters, etc. If you have a DSLR or Mirrorless camera you can easily add another 1000USD to that price. With this set up you can shoot very good underwater photos, half in half out photos, RAW support and amazing image quality. So what are the costs ? To start simple □ haha, a Sony 100RX Mk2 or 3 compact camera sets you back around 450USD, a housing from Ikelite around 550USD and a 6″ dome another 375USD. Get a matching dome, preferable from high quality acrylic or comparable material. If you are after image quality and better colors, take a, high-end compact, mirrorless or DSLR camera in a proper underwater housing. And with 50/50 photos: you want a BIG field of view. So the wider you go, the bigger you field of view. That’s because of the effect of the water. When you use this underwater it becomes a 38mm lens. For example you have a 24mm wide angle lens. When you shoot underwater or half in half out, you have to deal with the effect that water have on the field of view of a lens. You need to know something about water and lenses. Think about 8 to 14mm in full frame terms. The wider the lens the more you get in the frame. The Dome ‘pushes’ away the water from the lens and creates an ‘open space’ or open field of view for the wide angle lens. The thing is that you NEED a dome and you NEED wide angle to create this effect. Give or take 20min post processing to come to this result. This shot is heavily edited in Photoshop and Lightroom. But the image quality is not what it should be. This is by far the cheapest option to get shots like this. Costs: 350USD for the GoPro 5 and 60USD for the PolarPro Dome. This shot is taken with GoPro 5 Hero and a PolarPro dome. Equipment to shot photos like this can really break your bank. So here you have an example of the ‘setting’. Though the colors from the corals make up enough for the lack of colorful fish. Underwater: colorful corals but sadly no fish. ![]() In the shot above you can see an island with trees, rocks and clouded sky. So clear waters, something to see underwater and something to see above water. First, You need to be a location where you can do this. So how do you make shots like this ? A couple of things. For example you can see half underwater (coral, rocks, fish, sand, etc.) and half above water (beach, sky, sea, boats, island, etc.). What are 50/50 photos ? Shots like this are half in half out of the water.
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