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Inspiration Macro
Fish photography
This is an unusual species of jawfish carrying eggs in its mouth that is ready to hatch in its mouth.
Image - © Magnus Lundgren / magnuslundgren.com
Why & how?
Fish photography can be done at almost every dive sites with a macro lens mounted on your camera. Magnus find that around 100 mm lens is a great focal length as it allows a good working distance from the subject. If you open the aperture a bit to increase the bokeh, if you stop down you get greater depth of field. Play around.
Useful equipment
Pick a good macro lens as you will use it a lot. And use small, strong and fast strobes. Focus light provides crucial help for fast focusing. Play around with strobe positioning and vary the beam angle of your strobe by using a snoot.
Black Water macro photography
A juvenile ribbonfish, a rare find, found in Balayan bay, Philippines
Image - © Magnus Lundgren / magnuslundgren.com
Why & how?
Black water photography is easier to do if you have the right setup as the photographer is hovering in mid-water at night photographing weird creatures. 30 to 60mm lenses are the most used focal lengths depending on the sensor size. The underwater camera have to be have a balanced buoyancy. Magnus usually bring a flip-holder with a wet macro lens on the flat port for tiny subjects. The focus light is very important, and it should be able to set the light at low output. Long burntime helps. An additional narrow beamed search light is mandatory to find more subjects.
Useful equipment
Macro lens (30 to 60 mm), flat port (preferably a narrow version), great focus light, search light (for example Scubalamps RD95 4000 lumen, beam angle 15 degree) and of course arm floats or buoyancy arms (short and fat).
Super macro
A tiny coral blenny hiding in its coral home. The small size subject and stationary location made the blenny a great super macro subject.
Image - © Magnus Lundgren / magnuslundgren.com
Why & how?
When shooting macro most macro lenses give you a 1:1 magnification. With tiny subjects we always want a bit more. To boost your macro mode you can add a wet macro lens. Our most popular brands in terms of wet macro lenses are Nauticam and Saga. We recommend you to fix the super macro lens on a flippable holder during the dive. In reality you shoot with your regular macro set-up, and when you want to boost the macro mode you simply flip in the super macro lens. It takes one second and is really that simple.
Useful equipment
Your regular macro set-up is your starting point. Then you add a super macro wet lens. This lens is placed on the outside of your housing, usually using a 67mm thread, or by using a convenient flip holder. Good focus light is important to support your auto focus to perform well. And strobe light is a must.
Macro with fast focus & fast firing strobes
A juvenile flounder, unknown species, free swimming in mid water at night in Balayan Bay, Philippines. Image - © Magnus Lundgren / magnuslundgren.com
Why & how?
Shooting free swimming macro subjects requires fast shooting. So first of all you need modern strobes with fast recycle time preferably set to a low or mid output level. Secondly a you will need a "trigger" or a "TTL Converter" mounted in the housing enable the strobes to fire rapidly. To help the camera to focus fast and accurately a good and wide focus light with several output settings is helping a lot. Scubalamp's and Keldan's lights are fantastic in both quality and performance.
Useful equipment
Modern underwater strobes, wide focus light and a trigger or TTL Converter. Remember to use updated optical cables for best possible TTL performance.
