About Magic Filters
Magic Filters are designed, tested and brought to you by underwater photographers Dr Alex Mustard and Peter Rowlands. The original Magic filter came about through Alex wanting to develop a filter to extend the types of images he could take. While refining the filter in the Red Sea with Peter, other photographers who saw our images begged us not to keep the filter for ourselves. And so Magic Filters was born. Despite the name, there is no Magic. All our filters are custom recipes that we have found produce the best results while taking photographs underwater.
Peter Rowlands exploring a shipwreck. Taken with Magic Filter. © Alex Mustard (2006)
We sold our first filter (the original Magic) on 15th August 2005 and have now sold them to underwater photographers in more than 60 countries. We also currently have 11 respected underwater photography dealers stocking our filters. In August 2006 we introduced our second filter, the Auto-Magic, which is designed to make filter photography point and shoot simple with digital compact cameras. And in October 2006 we introduced our third line, the Greenwater Magic, which is designed for use in green temperate waters.
We have tried to price our filters reasonably so that all underwater photographers can afford to give this new technique a go. Magic filters start at just £19, plus a small postage and packing charge (£2.00) that covers delivery to anywhere in the world.
Bigeye on reef. Taken with Auto-Magic. © Peter Rowlands (2006)
An important part of the Magic Filters philosophy is to help our customers get great images with their filters. Only recently has filter photography become popular and most underwater photography books hardly mention it - although Peter is keen to point out that The Underwater Photographer’s Handbook (1984) by a certain P. Rowlands covers the subject thoroughly. Both this website and the instruction leaflet contain many tips on how to get the best out of your filter and illuminate your images effectively with ambient light.
Our biggest satisfaction as mad keen underwater photographers is seeing the new types of images people are producing with the filter. In a short space of time images take with Magic filters have appeared in numerous dive magazines, books and advertising campaigns. One of our proudest moments was when Rand McMeins won the Best in Show and the David Doubilet Award for excellence in the underwater photography with a shot taken with a Magic filter at Beneath the Sea 2006. We would like to think that our filters, to a certain extent, have revolutionised available light photography underwater.
Sipadan Reef. Taken with Magic Filter. © Alex Mustard (2006)
Please take look through the galleries
on this website and see what the Magic can do. Magic filters let us
take a completely new type of underwater photo. Surely there can be
nothing more exciting for a photographer than the prospect of creating
images that they have never taken before.
Enjoy the Magic!
Alex and Peter, August 2006.
[Magic Galleries]Magic Filters are designed, tested and brought to you by underwater photographers Dr Alex Mustard and Peter Rowlands. The original Magic filter came about through Alex wanting to develop a filter to extend the types of images he could take. While refining the filter in the Red Sea with Peter, other photographers who saw our images begged us not to keep the filter for ourselves. And so Magic Filters was born. Despite the name, there is no Magic. All our filters are custom recipes that we have found produce the best results while taking photographs underwater.
Peter Rowlands exploring a shipwreck. Taken with Magic Filter. © Alex Mustard (2006)
We sold our first filter (the original Magic) on 15th August 2005 and have now sold them to underwater photographers in more than 60 countries. We also currently have 11 respected underwater photography dealers stocking our filters. In August 2006 we introduced our second filter, the Auto-Magic, which is designed to make filter photography point and shoot simple with digital compact cameras. And in October 2006 we introduced our third line, the Greenwater Magic, which is designed for use in green temperate waters.
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We have tried to price our filters reasonably so that all underwater photographers can afford to give this new technique a go. Magic filters start at just £19, plus a small postage and packing charge (£2.00) that covers delivery to anywhere in the world.
Bigeye on reef. Taken with Auto-Magic. © Peter Rowlands (2006)
An important part of the Magic Filters philosophy is to help our customers get great images with their filters. Only recently has filter photography become popular and most underwater photography books hardly mention it - although Peter is keen to point out that The Underwater Photographer’s Handbook (1984) by a certain P. Rowlands covers the subject thoroughly. Both this website and the instruction leaflet contain many tips on how to get the best out of your filter and illuminate your images effectively with ambient light.
Our biggest satisfaction as mad keen underwater photographers is seeing the new types of images people are producing with the filter. In a short space of time images take with Magic filters have appeared in numerous dive magazines, books and advertising campaigns. One of our proudest moments was when Rand McMeins won the Best in Show and the David Doubilet Award for excellence in the underwater photography with a shot taken with a Magic filter at Beneath the Sea 2006. We would like to think that our filters, to a certain extent, have revolutionised available light photography underwater.
Sipadan Reef. Taken with Magic Filter. © Alex Mustard (2006)
Enjoy the Magic!
Alex and Peter, August 2006.
 Alex demonstrating you don't even need to be able to see clearly to use the Magic! ©AM |
 Peter pulls the hair of another diver as a punishment after he sees him using a strobe! ©AM |
| Of course both images were taken with Magic Filters. | |
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