Francis Pollak Profile

Francis Pollak

I am from

France
Member since: Thursday, April 9, 2015

When I was a child, I used to watch with amazement television documentaries of Jacques Cousteau. This fascination with the underwater world naturally lead me to make my first dives when I was just 15 years old. I was immediately fascinated by the beauty and incredible diversity of fauna and flora. Very quickly, I felt like fixing these images on film to be able to share them with my family and friends back to the surface. My first camera, a Nikonos III was completely manual: It was necessary to set distance, aperture, shutter speed, flash power, and all this before the subject decided to go elsewhere ... On a roll 36, I felt pretty happy, when 10 shots were successful. Technology has advanced, but not this ratio ... We must bring together a large number of parameters to make a proper image. I hope you enjoy the ones I show you here ...

U/W photographer