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Yes, deep water adds a bluish haze to photos, which is caused by the fact that only certain wavelengths penetrate that far down compared to others. Most people
by vouaobrasil 4y ago
Yes, deep water adds a bluish haze to photos, which is caused by the fact that only certain wavelengths penetrate that far down compared to others. Most people postprocess to make photos at that depth appear as if they were taken in air, which IMO is harmless.
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- thaumasiotes 4y ago>> Is there something about Deep water that desaturates all light that passes through even less than a meter of it? > Yes, deep water adds a bluish haze to photos, which is caused by the fact that only certain wavelengths penetrate that far down compared to others Something's gone badly wrong here. By definition, the light has passed through less than a meter of water. How can you be talking about "only certain wavelengths penetrat[ing] that far"?
- Maursault 4y agoIt also sucks out contrast and color saturation. Most diving lights are LED these days, and manufacturers go for "brightness" rather than accurate color rendition, so the blue in these cool white inaccurately color rendering LEDs only adds to the problem. But I wonder if a diving photographer zagged instead, and used a bright but very warm, sub 3000K High CRI light source if the problem could be mitigated, reducing the temptation of digital color monkeying. Hard to find old film underwater images online shot with tungsten filament-burning incan light sources, but I would bet my salt that those images looked better and more color-accurate than anything a modern DSLR and post-color processing can produce.