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Underwater Photo Contest | Creative - Manipulated (Photoshopped)

2701 Entries Found: Page 94  of  101
Shots that have been digitally edited outside of the camera for creative reasons (not brightness/contrast etc.) in a program like PhotoShop
Diver in sunball.
Capernwray.
16mm.Natural light.
Some fiddling in PS7.
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If you're going to photoshop do it like this. It could be real, and so it makes you do a double take
wounder of the NZ fiords
Repetitve images of the whale seen in the center.
Face to Face: This is a combination of 3 different photos that I composed in photoshop. I added a few filters to give a more surreal effect. I used a Canon s400 digital elph with an external strobe and underwater housing.
This is a combination of three photos that I took with my Canon S400 Digital Elph. I used an external strobe. I layered them in photoshop to create my own abstract view of patterns found under the sea.
Mutation – Three Eyed Spotted Pufinopolis. Found only in the early spring time off the Hawaiian Islands.
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2006
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You're diving a bit to close to those nuclear power station outpipes Glen! Seriously, we have never seen anything like this before and probably never will again ;-)
Just a swimming pool and natural sunlight with merdmaid smile
Mark once, Mark twice. Double exposure in water. Capenwray 10.5mm.
Romance was in the air at sunset on Embudu....not a photomontage.
Innocent Encounter. The spinner dolphin was photographed in the Red Sea. The baby was photographed in a swimming pool.
The subject is real, only colors have bein adjusted.
"Brow Ague" - I took this image in swimming pool in Prague. I used 2x 1000 Watts uw lamps. I turn this image for presentation. Surface looks like under model.
Caribbean "Fan"tasy.
Karpata, Bonaire.
"Jumpin' Jacks" - Grand Cayman East End. Taken with an Olympus C4040 Zoom in a PT-010 housing. Processed with Photoshop.
Silver Medal Silver Medal 2006

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an interesting edit
"Are we there yet?" Original photo, Canon A-95. Built-in flash. No external strobe. 2005. Manado, Indonesia.
Offspring courtesy of PS7.
Rare Jackson's Green Sea Turtle -
"At Peace" One of my favorite shots…of course you have to appreciate the Honu and what they represent…good luck, long life and fortune. A great way to end the year and begin anew.
Does the light not always shine on Beauty? The mermaid off sunset house GC.
Gold Medal Gold Medal 2005
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We've had this subject before but this is the best treatment
The Kiss
Roatan, Honduras.
This is a real double exposure picture with a Sapnish dancer and a diver between rocks.
solomon islands Nik RS - COMPOSING photoshop
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2005

Final RoundThrough to 2005 awards final round judging

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Manfreds speciality over/under photoshopped images are always interesting
tennis man. i used an ikelite housing and a 20D. i had the shutter on rear curtain sync. this was taken in the pool at my photography school in santa barbara, ca
solomon islands Nik-RS COMPOSING
Solomon Islands Nik-RS- COMPOSING
Rainbow trout.
Capernwray, Lancashire.
F90X, 16mm. Photoshop & a wet windy Sunday afternoon.
Going through a Moon phase...comp.
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