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Coral Reef Underwater Photography Fiji

Alison is the photographer and writer of 'Blue Bubbles - Fiji Underwater'  - a coffee table souvenir book sold widely around Fiji.  She leads underwater photography trips to Fiji for photographers from around the world who want to practice their skills on Fiji's reefs.


Underater photography is commonly split into two sections - wide angle photography, which uses a large 10-17 mm fish eye lens to take in the whole scene of the reef  - and a 100 mm macro lens, which allows the photographer to zoom into the features and bizarre appendages of the benthic world of the ocean.

Wide Angle Photography Portfolio

  • A diver is exploring a soft coral garden on the reef in the blue waters of Fiji during an all inclusive dive package vacation

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  • A vibrantly coloured reef fish is swimming across a beautiful coral reef in the bright blue waters of Fiji

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  • A bull shark is swimming in the foreground against a backdrop of feeding sharks in Fiji's blue waters

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  • Tangerine soft corals cover a dive site in Fiji with a diver just disappearing into a tunnel through 'Mellow Yellow' site

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  • Two manta rays are swimming across the sea floor on Kadavu's Astrolobe reef in Fiji

    Manta Rays

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  • Two divers swim through a narrow channel in the reef with pink sea fans framing the scene in Fiji

    Photographic journeys

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  • A coral reef in Fiji containing many different species of soft and hard corals in crystal clear waters represents some of the best diving in Fiji

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  • A soft coral garden under the bright Fijian sunshine on world famous Rainbow Reef, Fiji

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  • Hard and soft corals on the reef in Fiji

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  • A bull shark with a hook in his jaw swims past a scene of other sharks feeding from a bin on a shark dive in Fiji

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  • A boat and the sunlight in the scene of pink and red soft corals under the water in Fiji

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Wide angle underwater photography involves the capture of a wild field of view, making it possible in include expansive scenes of marine life and coral reefs.  A fish eye lens if often used with a 10-17 mm quite commonly chosen to create huge canvases of coralscapes.   When using a wide angle lens photographers are required to get very close to the subject., whilst not touching anything in the underwater environment. There are techniques to learn that help with exposure and the diffusion of light, colour loss and backscatter (particles in the water which reflect in the strobe lights).

Fish portraits and macro underwater photography in Fiji

  • An orange skunk anemone clownfish positions itself deep amid the tentacles of its home anemone on a coral reef in Fiji on an underwater photography dive package

    Clownfish and anemone

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  • A crinoid squat lobster with bright red eyes and with its front claws defending itself taken on a macro photography workshop in Fiji

    Crinoid squat lobster

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  • A transparent shrimp with sharp eyes and purple lined appendages sits in an anemone in Fiji using a camera technique for macro photography called bokeh

    Bubble coral shrimp

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  • A red frogfish against a soft red background taken on an underwater macro photography package to Fiji

    Frogfish

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  • A small purple and white striped shrimp perches on a macro image of a piece of sea weed taken on an underwater photography workshop in Fiji

    Commensal shrimp

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  • A sea hare faces the photographer with an unusual expression amid a swirl of white creating an artistic underwater macro image

    Sea Hare

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    Sea Hare
  • A beautiful and unusual portrayal of an orange clown fish peeping through the yellow and pink tentacles of an anemone

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  • A green nudibranch with purple tips on a piece of sea weed next to a ring of white eggs , taken on a Fiji underwater photography workshop

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  • A white an purple nudibranch with long tentacles crawls along the sea bed in Fiji

    Nudibranchs

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  • Against a black contrasting background a ghost pipefish hangs vertically attempting to camouflage itself in an orange piece of soft coral

    Ghost pipe fish

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  • A white porcelain crab with its largest front claws flexed for attack sits amid a purple anemone taken on a Fiji underwater photography workshop

    Porcelain crab

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  • A purple and orange nudibranch moving towards the camera over black sand

    Nudibranchs

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Underwater macro photography involves shooting close up images of small creatures. This involves focusing on  the intricate details of tiny marine life, such as colourful nudibranchs, shrimp, crabs and slugs.  Macro photography uses a variety of diopeters and magnifying lenses as well.  Staying perfectly still in the water is critical as it is very hard to gain focus on the subject - especially when employing a technique such as bokeh - which relates to the blurred background and a very narrow focal point - usually on a creature's eye.

  • An underwater macro photography image of a male cardinal fish with very sharp elongated teeth holding thousands of glistening eggs in his mouth taken by the Fiji underwater photographer

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  • A wide angle underwater photography scene in Fiji of a dive boat in the sunshine streaming into the ocean next to a pink and purple soft coral reef

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  • An orange shrimp sitting vertically on a blue tunicate making a compelling underwater macro Fiji image

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  • A tiny orange clownfish facing the camera amid the tentacles of a blue and white anemone

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  • Two lionfish under a torch light captured beautifully by the Fiji underwater photographer

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  • A transparent glass shrimp with vivid white eyes perched on pink anemome tentacles in very soft focus reflecting the use of the bokeh technique in Fiji underwater photography

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  • A red lizard fish under a blue ocean containing fish showing the technique of a composite image by the Fiji underwater photographer

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  • A frenzy of bull sharks and fish against a blue backgound taken on a shark photography trip to Fiji

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  • Soldier fish against a coral reef decorated in vibrant red sea fans makes a beautiful wide angle underwater photography picture

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Fiji underwater Photography Dive Trip Packages

Wide Angle

Explore ways of creating underwater wide angle 'canvases' mixing ambient and strobe light in layers.  Learn the tricks to minimise backscatter, be inspired with composition ideas, coral texturing. black backgrounds and vertical drama shots.

Macro

The world of the small is a must for any serious underwater photogapher as it is here we can get most creative displaying the ocean's weird and wonderful critters to the world. Bokeh (silky, soft focus, backgrounds), black vignettes, inward lighting. 

Post Processing

We continue our artistic journey by learning how to tweak and gently enhance our images in Adobe Lightroom.  Add your individual watermark, soften or enhance colours, sharpen edges, crop imagery, rotate and reverse.


Camera Hire

We have a nikon 7200 in housing and strobes for hire as well as a go pro. off camera lighting and a video light.



Photography Dive trips to Fiji
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