Into the Blue
Photographer: Emilie Reid
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1/500 • f/5.6 • ISO 640 • Nikon Z6III • 10mm • Laowa FFII 10mm f/2.8
Photographing split level shots for the first time in Florida was a unique and new challenge. I wasn’t feeling very inspired to shoot, but Ray encouraged me to try. Shooting with an underwater housing is honestly quite cumbersome— It makes everything bulkier and heavier, however it is also incredible to be able to capture split level and underwater shots.
This day was a lot of trial-and-error. Playing with holding the housing at different levels above the surface, just at the surface, or just below, to see what would lead to the most pleasing result. I enjoyed this look the most as it smoothed everything out and lead to an even split between the underwater and above. There is not much dynamism in the sky, or beneath the surface, so to me it is much more of a calm, serene, moment in time, captured.
