Lumigenic Media
Underwater, Nature, and Travel Photography by Marc Shargel
Seventeen images of the most feared and misunderstood
animal in the sea. All shot at close quarters, one is already a prize-winner!
Marc Shargel wins Optiquatics'
Shark Photo Contest 2003.
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We've added 106 images to our online collection, bringing
our total offering to 649 images! Our new offerings
are organized the same categories as the rest of our images,
giving you new pictures to look at on almost every page.
You can see all the new images on one
big page, but give it a moment;
it contains about 1.4MB of picture thumbnails!
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We added 331 new images to the site,
more than doubling our online selections at that time.
You can see all the additions of November,
’01 on one huge page, but be patient;
it contains almost 4.5MB of picture thumbnails!
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Important Note: Our Underwater and
Scenic Photographs look best when displayed with the optimum monitor settings.
Please take the time to check
your monitor for accurate display before viewing
our photos. Thank you!
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What's in our Photo File
Marc Shargel's photographic file contains images collected from around the
world and under its oceans during the last 15 years, and he's adding new images
regularly. Here's a condensed listing of subjects and locations represented.
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Marine Life Subjects
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Abalone
Algae
Anchovies
Anemones
Angelfish
Barnacles
Barracuda
Black Sea Bass
Blue Sharks
Bryozoa
Caves
Chitons
Coral
Cowries
Crinoids
Divers |
Eels
Fish
Flounder
Frog fish
Garibaldi
Gorgonians
Great White Sharks
Hammerheads
Hydroids
Iguanas
Jacks
Jack Mackerel
Jellyfish
Kelp
Lobster
Manta Ray
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Molas (Sunfish)
Moray Eels
Nudibranchs
Octopus
Parrotfish
Penguins
Pompano
Reef Fish
Reefs
Rockfish
Salps
Scallops
Sea Cucumbers
Sea Grasses
Sea Stars
Sea Turtles |
Seamounts
Sharks
Shrimp
Siphonophores
Snails
Sponges
Squid
Stingrays
Tunicates
Urchins
Wahoo
Wildlife
Wolf Eels
Worms
Wrecks
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Underwater Photography Locations
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Big Sur
Calif. Channel Islands
California Coast |
Caribbean
Carmel, Calif.
Cozumel Isl., Mexico |
Farallon Islands
Galapagos Archiepelago
Guadalupe Island, Mexico
Hawaii |
Red Sea
St. Lucia
Soccoro / San Benedicto
(Revillagigedos Archiepelago) |
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Travel, Scenic and Nature Photography
Subjects
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Caves
Divers
The David
Elephant Seals
Famous Artworks
Flowers
Giant Tortoises |
Harbor Seals
Iguanas
Insects
Landscapes
Lava
Mountains |
The Parthenon
Penguins
Pyramids
Rainforests
Redwood forests
Scenic Views |
Sea Otters
Sea Lions
Sphinx
Temples
Wildlife |
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Travel, Scenic and Nature Photography
Locations
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Big Sur
Channel Islands, Calif.
California Coast
Caribbean
China
Cozumel |
Ecuador
Egypt
Elephant Seals
Farallon Islands
Florence
Galapagos Islands
Greece |
Hong Kong
Italy
Mono Lake
New Mexico
San Francisco
Sedona, Arizona
High Sierra, California |
Soccoro
(Revillagigedos
Archipelago)
Thailand
Tibet
Yosemite |
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Digital Imagery Subjects
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Anything you can imagine.
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And some stuff that you can't!
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Finally, in addition to all the photography listed above, we offer photo
retouching and digitally-created imagery.
Our digitally created images start as photographs, then we use all the tricks
and tools of computer wizardry to enhance and even warp reality. A few prize-winning
examples of this craft are already in our file, and we're working on more.
We'd love to create one of these reality-bending images specifically for you.
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To View Our Photos Accurately
Please examine this color patch closely:
If you see a fine pattern of light dots becoming a pattern of dark dots
from left to right, your display is not set up for accurate viewing of our
photos. Please follow the instructions below.
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On a Macintosh TM
- Open the Control Panel called "Monitors" or "Monitors
and Sound"
- Under "Settings" or "Color Depth," Select "Millions"
- Close the Control panel
- Open a new browser window with more colors by clicking
here.
If you do not have a "Millions" option, and you are using
America Online or Microsoft Internet Explorer to access our site, you
can select "Thousands" instead, and still get good results.
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On a Windows TM
Computer
- Set a Bookmark for this page.
- Switch to the Windows file manager and open "Display Properties."
- Under "Settings" and "Color Palette" choose
the highest number of colors available (hopefully "True Color,
32 bit," or "Millions").
At this point you may be told to reboot your
computer to make the display chage effective.
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If you do not have to reboot, simply return to your
Web browser... |
| Then restart your Web browser. |
...and...
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| Choose the Bookmark you set in step 1, from the
"Go" or "Bookmarks" menu to return to this
page. |
...open a new browser window with more colors by
clicking here. |
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| Many older computers offer only 256 color (8 bit color)
display. Neither Millions of Colors (24/32 bit color) nor Thousands of
Colors (16 bit color) are available. If yours is such a machine, please
accept our apologies and understand that you'll be viewing a coarse rendering
of our photos. |
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Thank You...
...for your time and patience. Now you'll see sharp, brilliant
images in all the colors of nature.
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A Word About Reality and
Integrity
Our Digital Images are not “photographs.” Every
photograph reflects, to some extent, the vision of the photographer. That
said, most of us expect that when we look at a photo we are seeing a certain
view of reality. Lumigenic Media’s Digital Images look like photos,
but they display a reality that existed only in the artist’s imagination.
Because we believe the integrity of these images is important, we will never
present an image that has been digitally recomposed as a photograph. We
create our digital images to entertain, to amuse, even to startle, but not
to deceive. We likewise encourage (and insist when possible) that all those
who reproduce our Digital Images fully inform the viewing audience about
the origin of what they are seeing.
We do adjust our photographs for best presentation.
Every photographer since the imaging pioneers of the last century has had
to make artistic choices about how they wanted their images to look. Decisions
in the field or the darkroom (such as composition, exposure, lighting, cropping,
contrast, and dodging or burning) have always affected the rendering of
reality offered by the resulting photograph. |
Photographs we display on the web, or supply to buyers in
file form, have usually been adjusted using the digital equivalent of these
traditional darkroom processes.
Indeed, our first challenge is to make the image file produced by the scanner
look like the film that was scanned. Of course this is a highly subjective
art (e.g. How much sharpening makes the file look as crisp as the original?)
Beyond this, we frequently adjust contrast, and sometimes digitally burn
or dodge a light or dark area to make a more pleasing image. We always try
to retouch out any dust or dirt that was on the slide when it was scanned
(a rare but annoying problem). Occasionally we will spot retouch spurious
contents of the image, such as backscatter, to remove visual distractions.
Our rule in this process is not to change the view of reality offered
by the photograph, but to clarify and perhaps enhance it. Manipulations
that help resolve an image from life are, in our opinion, part of the photographer’s
art in making a photograph. Manipulations that result in an image that never
occurred in life produce something that, in our opinion, should not be called
a photograph. We call those products of our craft Digital Images. |
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since
March 6, 1997.
Photographs by Marc Shargel are available as
stock
for publication, as
fine-art enlargements
suitable for home, office, or gallery display, and on
notecards.
See our
price list for further information
on ordering enlargement (framed or unframed). See our
infomation
for art directors and editors for stock use purchases. See our selection
of over
60 different NoteCards for unique holiday,
birthday, and occasional cards.
All photos © Marc Shargel, all rights strictly reserved.
You may not use these images, distribute, copy or save them in any way, including
saving copies on your own computer, without the written
permission
of the owner. To do so is a violation of federal copyright law, and will be
vigorously prosecuted. Authorized
permission
to use our images may cost as little as $5 to $10 each and is a lot cheaper
than fighting off that phalanx of lawyers that you'll see in your nightmares
if you do something illegal.
Important Note: If there are visible dots,
or bands of color, in our photos, it is because your monitor is not properly
set up to display our high-quality images. Please take the time to set
up your monitor for accurate display of our photos. Thank you!
For information on Lumigenic Media's multimedia
and web design services, email
our media department.
For information on Living Sea Images photographic products from Lumigenic
Media, email
the photography studio.
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webmaster.
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