DOOM BREAK: Check out some of my wife's underwater photography! Do you think she has a future at NatGeo?

I was expecting photos of women modeling lingerie, as I thought it stated “underwear” photography. Ugh! It’s too early.

I’m pleasantly surprised to see beautiful underwater photographs instead. She has talent!

Any dolphin picts?

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Some nice shots there OP. What camera is she using? And are the pics full resolution? I ask because some of them seem noisy and or not very sharp.

+1

Not to mention overexposed...I know because I shoot flowers and over-saturated color is the hardest thing to shoot and every camera brand has their own strengths and weaknesses. I'd expect a pro underwater cameras to start at $5,000. and the market is oversaturated too. That is, there have been years of pros working in the field producing perfect shots, many now in stock photo portfolios. New work is about new species which means working directly with the scientists where they work.

Could be better but why don't you have her download a program like infranview, which is free and have her learn how to color 'correct' or enhance the photos? How do I put this to you? If you look at an unretouched photo of a woman who is nude, even with the correct lighting, camera filters, etc, the photo still has to be edited to make it look good, landscapes are no different. Almost all photos you look at in magazines are digitally enhanced. If she wants to move forward after that, then go get her a wecom. Don't cheapskate if she is really into this. You cannot just take pictures and think that you are going to become a photographer, doesn't work like that. Depending on how much money you want to put into her hobby, you can get the larger wecom with reasonable software for roughly $6-700. If you want to get professional level software figure on about $12-1400. You might want to get her a basic level outfit and then buy the professional grade software once she learns how to use paint and some of the other software. Even if you have the money, it is not always the smartest idea to go out and buy top of the line software without her knowing how to use it. It would just frustrate her. Work up to it. I would stay away from the Microsoft clone of the wecom. There is also a chinese knockoff of the wecom, but no one in the industry likes the pen, they cannot get the pen to work like the wecom pen works. As they say, you get what you pay for. I am not promoting wecom but anyone who is seriously into photography is also into photo editing. Great time to buy a wecom as you find many Christmas deals for the various models and software bundling. I am warning you, when it comes to photo editing, do not go cheap, she will not be happy. Yes, you can go cheap with photo editing slates, but you will not have photo rotation on the screen and so many other features which you, meaning she, would want to have. Without this type of photo editing software, then just leave taking underwater pictures as a hobby.

Sorry, the photo editor is wacom not wecom, early in the morning for me. I call them wecoms and not wacoms for some reason, just sounds better.

Nice pics.
But she's going to have to master video. To get in with most of the Nat Geo stuff.

I liked her and left a little post...

Do you think she has a future at NatGeo?
If shes a hard core Liberal and believes we only have 11 years left on this Blue Ball, shes got a decent shot at it..

Last Edited by Backwash on 11/14/2019 08:32 AM

My videographer friend says NatGeo pay is very low - people just work for them to get a resume

The Discovery Channel is 3 times or more as Big

Animal Planet is bigger too

NatGeo is “controlled” by people not to o be messed with

Have her start HER OWN CHANNEL and she can quit her day job in 2-3 years

Love the pictures!



:Five_Stars*:

I looked at the title quickly and saw...

Check out some of my wife's UNDERWEAR photography!


What a letdown...



(Nice photography though, mate)

My friend is an underwater videographer and I'm a pro cameraman. I helped him decide what camera to get and now he's absolutely killing it.

He decided on the Lumix LX100 (mk1) as it has a big sensor, super fast Leica glass, shoots 4K video and even has a zoom. They're about £400.

The underwater housing only costs about £200 and works a treat. His first underwater housing many years ago cost something like £12000.

Happy days - this rig he says is streets ahead of anything he's ever used in the past

^^** That rig above would be perfect for stills as well as video btw. It's good to have both options. It shoots RAW too.

They look great Capt Dan. No facebook here but give her my

I fell for it too lol

Well, let us be the judge of that. Whenever she's ready.......................

Damn it...I thought it said underwear.......

biggest obstacle to getting great underwater photos is finding clean clear water.

terrific photos, OP!!!

me too.

Very good pictures. Great future in NatGeo

Yes and her blog is really nice!! You guys travel a lot.

Sorry dude

Not many pics left to take

That haven't already been done to death

Tell you wife to invent a camera that can go beneath lava

That is the only thing I can think of that hasn't been done

Awesome!

those are a lot sharper and better color than the FB images.
Good work!

NatGeo?

Setting aside the Glossy Photographs with circles & arrows n-sheeeit.

Isn't that one of those shit-holes fulminating with NWO, BQMTJ, Kalergi, Degenerates?

Good Luck With That?
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