Research-Len Deeley

Another photographer who's work I feel is absolutely fascinating is Len Deeley. Len Deeley specialises in underwater photography. This ranges from all sorts of different types of fish to actual historical ship wrecks. Len uses all different kinds of under sea photography equipment, the camera he uses is a Nikon D70 alongside Inon Strobes.

Len began diving in 1970 and then continued to dive with many different branches to gain experience. He then began to start seriously taking underwater photography in 1980. Len used many different cameras to practise his photography.

With underwater photography you don't just need skill to take good pictures but you also need heavy training before hand because it can be very dangerous. Before you go out on a dive you need to be well prepared knowing the depth of your dive because it can be very dangerous diving too deep due to air pressure etc.

Amphiprion Percula

When I was researching Len Deeleys work I came across this photograph which in my opinion is quite phenomenal. It is a picture of three clown fish in some sort of circular area. This photograph is brilliant as   everything about it is perfect. I particularly like the surrounding colour of the photograph as it matches the colour of the main object in the photograph which are the three clown fish. This photograph unsurprisingly won a competition for the best underwater photograph for a local community competition. Like I said Len is a famous photographer but his work is absolutely stunning. This picture alone inspires me to start looking at this type of work.



Wreck of the Giannis D

This picture that I found of Len Deeley's was when he went on a diving trip to the Red Sea in 2009. This picture shows the wreck of a ship know as the Giannis D. Although when taking pictures of wrecks you dont really have to get them picture perfect due to them being facinating as they are, Len has taken a fabulous photograph of the wreck from the front to show its real size for the viewers. This type of photography underwater really fascinates me as you never know what you could encounter and discover whilst in the depths of the sea.



Wreck of the Thistlegorm

I wasn't going to use this photograph for my research at first because I looked at it and thought there were better photogrpahs to use untill I took another look at the photograph which completely changed my mind. The second time In looked at this photograph I realised that this must have been a war ship because of the cannon on this rea of the ship. I was amazed to see this, it looks great alongside a fantastic shot of the ship. Like I said earlier, you never know what you can find when doing underwater photography. You can have a mixture of colourful vibrant creatures to create amazing photographs and you also have the historic side of great shipwrecks to photograph aswell, amazing!