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Documentary Series Ocean Subsistence by Photojournalist, Lecturer Cristiano Burmester
In this 12-part documentary series, photojournalist, lecturer, and professional photographer Dr. Cristiano Burmester documents the "ancient" way of life by families along Brazil's Atlantic coast. Each episode shows the various relationships between each conclave and their oceanic relationships, practices, culture, and subsistence. It provides a closer look at the different lifestyles that make up the multifaceted array of seafarers and their present relationships with our shared ocean waters and the Brazilian way of being.
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Faster Digital Imaging Innovation Pace Means More Choices for Photographers
It's an exciting time for the digital imaging market - at least for consumers. The migration from film to DSLR introduced a host of digital resources into the camera, but mechanical components still meant a series of functional bottle-necks in the imaging workflow. With the advent of Mirrorless, almost all of the imaging functionality transitioned into the digital domain, unleashing the traditional pervasiveness and speed of innovation into more aspects of capture, processing, transferring, and store, while simultaneously enabling typically post-production computational technologies to migrate up the imaging stream towards capture.
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Underwater Wednesday Clubhouse Podcast This Week with Brett Stanley
Professional photographer and cinematographer Brett Stanley invited Outex co-founder to participate at this week's Clubhouse podcast/interview as part of his Underwater Wednesday Photo series to talk about underwater photography, housings, and all things camera tech.
The chat takes place on Wednesday, at 12:00 noon Pacific Standard Time.
Here's the link: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/event/xBZlYQQ2
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Magazine and Dow Museum of Art feature Howard Lewis B&W fine art photography.
Artist Howard Lewis explores light, form, and kinetic energy in B&W photo exhibit, Kinetic Solitude, recently featured at Dow Museum of Art and Lens Scratch Magazine. For the series, he was not positioned on a ledge or cliff looking down onto the water, but rather immersed thigh deep in cold water, all the while assessing the unpredictable movement of the water and looking out for the safety of himself and his equipment. "For the series I use Outex with my Sony A7rlll with a Zeiss 55mm 1.8 lens"
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Dropped in the Pacific short film by Outex Ambassador Jessica Haydahl selected by Fly Fishing Film Tour
This short film by Outex Ambassador Jessica Haydahl shows the journey seven women are on when they embark on the adventure of a lifetime; dropped in the Pacific to fish the famous Christmas Island coral atoll. These women experience the remote nature and unforgiving weather that Christmas Island can be known for. Together as a group, they share their experiences, their difficulties and their joys. They have successes and failures all while each sharing their own personal love for fly fishing and talking about what that brings to their lives.
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Outex already supports Sony's new A1 series
This rapid pace of innovation can also mean faster obsolescence. And it's rewarding to kwon that the Outex underwater housing system supports your entire arsenal of cameras and lenses. The Outex Pro Kit already supports the Sony Alpha A1 series, just as it did the A7, A9, and AIII cameras before, along with all of Sony's optical glass. And just as exciting, is the knowledge that you can also use your Outex gear on multiple brands. So if you toolkit includes a Canon EOS R camera, a Nikon DSLR D850, a Hasselblad X, or even film cameras, it's nice to know your Outex investment is protected, and you can use all of them in a single shoot.
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Head and Specialized rely on Outex cases for Triathlon cinematography
Specialized and Head rely on Outex to make their latest sponsorship video with Portuguese Triathlon athlete Vasco Vilaça. Take a look at the short video and some behind the scenes footage of the "making-of".
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Underwater Wedding Puerto Rico's most sought-after professional photographer Edwin Solano
Photographer Edwin Solano is arguably the best, most sough-after professional in the island of Puerto Rico when it comes to couple and wedding photography. He's a speaker, educator, and commercial photographer splitting his time between New York and Puerto Rico. Edwin has 15 years of experience in exceeding client's expectations in the most memorable, most creative setups imaginable. Take a look behind the scenes with makings of some of his photoshoots with the Outex underwater housing system.
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Outex launches in Japan with Geek Trade partnership
Outex underwater housing system expanded its brand in Japan yesterday thru a launch in Makuake, a crowd-sourcing website. It exceeded its goal within the first 24 hrs of the campaign, which will run thru the end of January.
Outex's distribution partner Geek Trade is spearheading the launch and will distribute the products in Japan in 2021, facilitating education, translation, and distribution services of the product in that country.
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Underwater shoot using triggers, strobes, and tethering w/ Brett Stanley & Linnea
We're often asked about using lighting solutions with Outex for underwater photography. And the answer is; Yes, you can! There are many different ways to make it work. And that's part of the beauty of the modularity of the system. It can accommodate virtually any lighting setup you wish to use. You can use hot-shoe, camera mounted flash, remote triggers for above water lighting, and tethering to control underwater lighting - as well as combinations. We recently joined Brett Stanley in his underwater studio for a photoshoot with professional model Linnea Snyderman @underwaterlinnea. Brett custom build his pool to accommodate entire production sets underwater and optimize comfort, composition, versatility, and lighting conditions for underwater photography. Here are a few examples of his work. You can learn more about his work in his profile.
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Artist Anya Anti Ocean Plastic Pollution Project Promotes Conservation
Visual artist, editing instructor, and conceptual photographer Anya Anti recently completed her conservation project on ocean plastic pollution with the help of her Outex waterproof cases. Watch her work her magic on photo editing to illustrate her story and capture the audience's attention to promote conservation and reduce pollution.
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Sigma's Joe Tanasiripakde adds waterproof capability to his FP digital camera
Outdoor Photographer Joe Tanasiripakde adds waterproof capability to his Sigma FP digital camera. Outdoor photographer Joe Tanasiripakde chose the Outex system when he decided to augment his already impressive portfolio of images with the ability to use his camera in any environmental condition - even underwater. Joe takes stunning landscape, animal, and outdoor photos. He has recently added Outex waterproof cases to his tool belt so he could focus on the work and not worry about damaging his gear in dirt, mud, dust, sand, rain, or even underwater.
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