photoshopdiver.com

10-20-09
Hello, I’m Daniel.
When I first started out shooting underwater photos, people warned me, oh you can’t take shots with natural lighting unless you are shooting very shallow and in perfect visibility. To prove this they would show me photos they had taken without strobes and flashes saying “see, this is all you’ll get, washed out green pics of nothing.”

Coming from an imaging and pre-press background, the shots they showed me looked similar to old, faded, washed out photos or bad scans of old photos. Little did they know, I’d been using photoshop professionally for years in high-end printing environments, repairing or salvaging bad photos and scans. So I bought my first rig without an expensive strobe set up, setting out to prove them all wrong.

Not only were they surprised, I was a little surprised myself. And now with some practice I’ve distilled my underwater photoshop techniques into what I consider to be a solid and studied working method that brings out remarkable photos from shots that at first glance would seem hopeless.

Although as of late, the economy has been giving both me and my underwater photo hobby the pinch.

So I decided that the next best thing to getting out into the sea for some real action, would be to revamp my existing underwater photo web site and maybe give a try at writing about a few things that interest me, specifically, underwater photography and photoshop.

This blog is all about Underwater Photography, and using Photoshop to enhance, improve, and even salvage underwater photos. I find this most important when shooting with natural lighting.

Sit back and enjoy, and please view my galleries. I will be adding to them a few at time, beginning from my oldest to my newest, getting them up as quickly as possible. I also have three new, as of yet un-posted underwater galleries, and several as of yet un-posted underwater movies.