Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I got serious about underwater work, I found a (very low paying) job in the Cayman Islands working in the dive business. I'd spend days finding a subject- I was shooting almost exclusively macro- then once that was done, I'd shoot as many rolls of film as I possibly could on that one thing. This meant several dives that, depending upon the depth, often resulted in decompression diving. It got real technical real fast, the equipment cost a fortune (Nikon F4 in an Aquatica housing with a lot of lighting), and there weren't many people doing that sort of thing. I've never shot digital underwater. It's still quite expensive but a lot more people are doing it with a lot better results. If I had one or two acceptable images on a 36 exposure roll of Velvia, I had a successful dive. The bar has definitely been raised. Wendy On 10/21/09, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > Wendy Thurman wrote: > >> ... on the recent workshop I attended in Provence, the workshop leader >> (who does photographic work for Nat Geo Traveler) mentioned >> that wildlife/nature photography was the best paying area these days. >> Fifteen years ago I managed to sell the occasional underwater shot but it >> was tough then- I imagine it's very hard these days. > > I'd say it's exponentially more difficult to make a sale because the > equipment developments in the last 15 years have removed a LOT of the > technical barriers that limited the number of technically acceptable > photos. > Today there's a HUGE flood of adequate photos, the really good work can > easily get lost in the deluge. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >