Contents of Scuba Sport Magazine - MAR-APR 2012

Scuba Sport Magazine is the only scuba magazine that offers diving news, dive travel, scuba gear, diving destinations and underwater photography that caters to the recreational diver.

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There are two basic elements of design, form & color, on which all visual expression depends. Both form and color are created by light. It gives us shape, texture, line, perspective, emotion, time and color itself! My compositions are nearly always vertical in format to use the sun (light) and blue (primary color) water column.
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Lowering the strobe angle creates colour in the bottom half while the crinoid arms, silhouetted in the sun, make the top half 'black & white'. Busy and heavy on the bottom, light and airy on the top which reinforces the delicate nature and bouquet of crinoids. St. Lucia.
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Dividing the image in half, top wa- ter bottom reef, and centering the 'subject' sea fan base, add light, and whala another amazing com- position—painting with light and a new appreciation for the common sea fan. Bay Islands, Honduras.
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centre is colour and body, the cri- noid arms and shrimp antennae compliment for repetition of line, proportion and balance achieving dynamic simplicity—fun and beau- tiful! St. Lucia.