Magic Filters started in 2005 when Alex designed a filter to counteract the colourcast of seawater in his own photos and extend the type of images he could take. Alex began testing the filters with Peter Rowlands, while they were refining the filter in the Red Sea other photographers who saw the results persuaded them not to keep the filter for themselves. And so Magic Filters was born.
Magic Filters are designed specifically for digital cameras and have revolutionized how available light photos are taken underwater. Simply, Magic filters allow you to produce colourful photos or videos without having to use strobes, flash or lights. Despite the name and the performance, there is no Magic. All Magic Filters are custom recipes that have been found to produce the best results while taking photographs underwater.
Magic Filters can be bought direct from the website or from one of leading underwater photography dealers that stock them. The Magic Filter recipe is also used in GoPro Flip Filters.
GALLERY
All images taken with Magic Filter and no strobes
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- A diver looks down on the bow of the USS Kittiwake (US Military submarine rescue vessel) in Grand Cayman, the Cayman Islands. This photo was taken shortly after the wreck was deliberately sunk as an attraction for scuba divers, which is why the wreck is still white. Caribbean Sea.
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- A top down view of a coral pinnacle, or bommie. made of dome coral (Porites nodifera) and surrounded by fish, including scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis), with diver (Jesper Morch). Fury Shoal, Egypt. Red Sea.
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- A diver (Steen Nissen) swims over the stern of the Chrisoula K wreck (also known as the tile wreck). Abu Nuhas, Egypt. Strait of Gubal, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea.
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- The vertical reef wall at Shark Reef, Ras Mohammed, with anthias (scalefin anthias: Pseudanthias squamipinnis) and soft corals (Dendronephthya spp.), yellowsaddle goatfish (Parupeneus cyclostomus) and a school of bohar snappers (two-spot snappers: Lutjanus bohar) in a spawning aggregation.Ras Mohammed Marine Park, Sinai, Egypt. Red Sea.
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- A pair of divers explore the wreck of the Giannis D, Abu Nuhas reef. Strait of Gubal, Red Sea. Egypt.
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- A huge school of bigeye trevally (bigeye jack: Caranx sexfasciatus) swimming over a coral reef. South Atoll, Tubbataha Atolls, Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, Palawan, Philippines. Sulu Sea.
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- A diver (Chris Bernhard) photographs a school of bigeye trevally (bigeye jack: Caranx sexfasciatus). South Atoll, Tubbataha Atolls, Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, Palawan, Philippines. Sulu Sea.
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- A coral garden, with many table corals (Acropora sp.), forms a reef. Ulong, Rock Islands, Palau, Mirconesia. Tropical west Pacific Ocean
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- Creole wrasse (Clepticus parrae) swarm above the bow of the wreck of the USS Kittiwake. Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies.
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- The diversity of a shallow coral garden. Shallow reefs are called gardens because the coral growth resembles plants. Like plants, reef-building corals grow into these shapes to catch light, which they need to photosynthesize for food. Of course, most corals do not feel like leaves or petals to the touch, but are hard and immovable rock. Reef-building corals are an intriguing mix of animal, vegetable and mineral.Menjangan Island, Bali, Indonesia. Java Sea.
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