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Digital Shootout Bonaire 2007 Day 6
Today is the last official day of the Digital Shootout Bonaire 2007! We had an evening awards ceremony presentation that included a topside slideshow and an underwater slideshow of all the images submitted in the photo contest, followed by a presentation of this year’s winning images. After the show, more than 20 of us ended up at Papaya Moon, a relatively new Tex-Mex restaurant in town. When I left the group, they were having a great time at Little Havana…
DivePhotoGuide.com posts coverage from SCUBA Show 2007
Jason Heller of DivePhotoGuide.com traveled to Long Beach, California for the 2007 SCUBA Show as the presenter of the winning entries in the Under the Blue International Photo & Video Competition.
Continue to Jason’s coverage for photos and description of the event, and if you haven’t already, congratulate some of the winners in the UTB ‘07 competition thread in the forums.
Although the event concluded a few weeks ago, DivePhotoGuide has also recently posted coverage of the Asia Dive Expo 2007, which was held in Bangkok, Thailand this year.
Digital Shootout Bonaire 2007 Day 5
Home stretch! We had a relatively light schedule today, with two boat dives in the morning, a short talk in the afternoon on how to shoot split images (by Jim Watt) and a mini-lecture on Photoshop techniques (sharpening and backscatter removal, by Berkley White). Jim, Berk and I held informal office hours for the rest of the afternoon, helping participants prepare their final image selects for submission into the photo contest.
Photo/video pro positions open in Yap and Bonaire
Our friends at the Manta Ray Bay Hotel in Yap, Micronesia, and at Capture Caribbean in Bonaire (at the Divi Flamingo Resort) are both looking for video/photo pros. Duties include shooting daily videos, renting cameras, downloading photos, teaching classes, and more.
For more information on the Yap opening, check out this Wetpixel thread. For more information on the opening in Bonaire, contact Kathy Lapsys at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Sea & Sea YS-250 strobe prototype photos
Jon Davy from Sea & Sea / TUSA has been hanging out with us here in Bonaire at the Digital Shootout 2007. In addition to bringing an underwater housing and strobes to give away as a contest prize, Jon brought two prototype Sea & Sea YS-250 strobes with him. Originally announced at DEMA last year, the YS-250 has been awaited eagerly by photographers because of its high power and relatively compact size. We took a couple photos of the strobes…
Digital Shootout Bonaire 2007 Day 4
We dove some really lush reefs today (and yesterday), with nearly complete gorgonian and sponge coverage. After spending so much time in the south Pacific, it is rare for me to find a reef that I’m impressed with, especially in the Caribbean. But some of the reefs here in Bonaire (especially in the far north and far south) are really healthy and host a ton of marine life…
Sardine run updates from the field
An unofficial Wetpixel group run by video guru Drew Wong is currently off in South Africa photographing the sardine run, an annual event where thousands of dolphins, sharks, and gannets feed on a massive sardine migration up the eastern cape. As a bonus, it is currently humpback whale season, so the participants have also been seeing whales pretty much daily. I went with Drew last year and had a great time (ask him about the time he scared away the humpback whale while wearing a spiderman wetsuit).
Drew and the participants have been sending in daily updates via GPRS connection on a mobile phone. Follow their progress in our forums!
Digital Shootout Bonaire 2007 Day 3
The evening slideshow was impressive. Following a pattern established in all the previous digital shootouts, the second image critique session showcased images so much better than those shown the night before that they might as well have been shot by different people. This always makes the staff happy because it means that we are having a real affect on participant photography skills…