I am just in awe of the possibilities that open with underwater digital photography. How in the world is it done? Jean, did you buy a special housing for your camera? I'm really interested in this because this will open new worlds for me. The picture is one of my favorites. Thanks in advance! :-)
I bet it could be done with a plexiglass box... just submerge the box and take the photo from within it without getting your camera wet. Just a thought.
I was wondering that myself... I thought an interesting solution would be to stick the camera into a small aquarium and submerge it partially. I'd probably still be paranoid that the camera would get splashed, though.
An aquarium or plexiglass box sounds feasible. Why didn't I think of that? What ever she did really yielded a fantastic image. I was looking over her pictures...she sure is good!
Firstly I would like to apologise for not replying earlier. With the eight hour difference between EST and Mauritius I only saw the thread this morning.
Yes, I did use an underwater housing for my 'Out of the Blue' photograph. I then put on my wetsuit, being winter here, and climbed into our swimming pool. I asked my son to partially submerge his face in the water. I positioned myself in such a position so as to eliminate any refracted images from around the pool, in this way I managed to achieve the plain blue background. The blue being the reflected colour of the pool, I then rotated the image 90 degrees. Unfortunately the faint band to the right of the face is the waterline and according to rules I could not spot edit it out, nor the few air bubbles on his face.
I used a similar process with my previous photograph 'Lemon Slices and an Ant'. But here here I wanted refracted images from around the pool and the clouds to create the desired effect of the lemon slices appearing to be suspended in the sky. The ant was a mistake and again here I could not spot edit.
Hopefully I have explained sufficiently well how I achieved 'Out of the Blue'.
Thanks Jean .... and to me .. the air bubble add to the picture, it does not subtract from me. I would be like the human/life element that because it makes the 'formal picture' 1% less 'perfect', make the actual picture better. Sorry for the 'quotes' I am not sure to be clear but ... I like the picture like this. Congrats again Lionel
