Short film depicting some of the beautiful daily sights living here in Quintana Roo, diving with ProTec Dive Center!
Filmed and edited by Katy Fraser
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Almost packed and ready to head to Florida! First portion of the course is in high springs then it’s down to Pompano weather depending or to a rather chilly lake so bringing all the gear #fourthelement #equipmentforadventure #lightmonkey #lightmonkeyheatedvest #apeks #k01 #packinglist
@gremlinboo and @mattreedx look who I bumped into! @roy_diver ☺️ apparently he started his technical training at @evolutiondivingresort aswell ... small 🌍 #cozumel #harmonyoftheseas #cozumelcruise #malapascuaisland #evolutiondiving
New toy 😍 #shearwater #teric
Prepping for starting @guehq tech 1 in Florida in a few days! I’m excited to further my education build my confidence and my training and REPEAT. Amongst projects my aim this year and early into next is to get CCR finally under wraps and choose a unit (still deciding 🙄) and fix a few holes in my Trimix diving with aims to slowly but surely eventually apply it all to my filming and start diving some exciting new places around the world too in the process ☺️ #newprojects #newplaces #newadventures #underwaterfilm #florida #bajacalifornia #capetown #belize
A bit of a different post from my usual ... but I just wanted to share my experience. So over the past months I totally changed my fitness and nutrition. I am the kind of person who LOVES food. I have come to realise that your diet is such a large part of being fit and especially eating at the right times and the right amounts of different components that make up a plate. I can’t begin to express how great I feel physically and mentally. I want to stay fit and flexible so I can do the things I love which involves a lot of weight carrying, walking, crawling and in general adventuring around with my camera for as long as I possibly can. Would totally recommend @consultas_nutricion combined with any kind of regular daily exercise as a way forward for anyone looking to do the same 🙂 #ropeclimbs #foodforthought #happyfriday #adventureanywhere
Sometimes you don’t get the shot you are so hungry for ... so you mesh a couple together and we can just call it ‘art’ OK. I could watch this for ever ☺️ #iceland #waterfalls #oneday #nexttime #northernlights #nowbacktocaves
A country of pure contrasts. Iceland is a place that I would love to go back to. So many adventures to be had in this beautifully harsh place! Bathing in this pool was an amazing experience. The 38 degree water in the sleeting rain (and maybe a glass of 🥂) with my family was such a nice way to spend mums birthday 😌 A fun fact for you! The spectacular water colour is caused by silica which forms a large part of the earths crust. As the geothermal water flows up from deep underground as does some silica which binds to the lava rock and radiates more blue in daylight than any other colour 💙 #iceland #geothermalpool
Bye bye Iceland ... have so many pictures to post over the next few days. Mum had a wonderful time which was the most important thing! Now a couple of days at home before catching up with friends and back down to London. #heartyou #northernlights #lightpainting
It has always been a dream of mine to see the northern lights! Well after hours of hunting chasing meteorological reports until the early hours in the cold and wind we found them. They were very faint and it’s crazy how the colours really come out through the camera!! #iceland🇮🇸 #northernlights #auroraborealis #picofthenight #panasonicgh5s
And we are off to Iceland 🇮🇸 for the first part of Mum’s 60th!! It’s been a very well kept secret and every day of the trip is going to be a new surprise for Mum. HAPPY BIRTHDAY @maryfraser09 love you 😍 #surprise
@nauticamhousings has been near and dear to my heart since the very start of my career. They were my first underwater housing and still firmly my first choice today. As a manufacturer they have been nothing short of awesome in their help with support and advice. Not to mention they also have some great articles on their website which have really helped me at stages in my career and still do.
I am very flattered to see my bio along side some of the people I most admire in my field. You can read all about me and them here! : https://www.nauticam.com/blogs/ambassadors/katy-fraser
#nauticam #underwatercamera #underwaterhousing #underwaterfilm #amabassador
Another pic from the shoot the other day of Yann and Jon working as a team 👊
There is so much team work behind film shoots that perhaps unfairly you never see in the videos. The light placement corrections, the repeating of shots for multiple angles or takes, all these accumulate many many minutes of patience from all involved and sometimes it just doesn't work out but hey ... when it does! It's such a great feeling :) Really enjoying editing the footage from this shoot that depicts a little of what goes on behind the scenes. Unfortunately I'm in England and missing the editing speeds of my Mac Pro ... My Macbook sounds like it's going to levitate off the table at any minute with all the whirring going on so having to take it a bit easy on the 4k editing.
Photo by Katy Fraser @shedivestech
#cavediving #nauticam #cenote #filmshoot #bigbluedivelights #lighting #workshop #fouthelement
It was an absolute pleasure to run a lighting workshop for this years OWUSS North American Rolex Scholar, Yann. I really really enjoyed sharing what for me is a passion and seeing it all come together. We did about an hour of talking about lighting techniques, running through story boards ... then gelled lots of video light and went diving!
Using colored lights I found was a great way to differentiate between where lights have already been placed and still need to be placed for someone who is new to practicing lighting. They are also more forgiving in terms of 'the burn' than straight white light. Congrats Yann, you did a great job, good luck with everything, it was awesome to meet you! and thank you @kieren38 for getting me involved and being a good student.
Little film clip is in post production :) Photo by Katy Fraser @shedivestech
#cavediving #workshop #underwaterfilm #underwaterlighting #fourthelement #lightmonkeylights #bigbluedivelights #cenote #sidemount #underwaterfilming #buceo #nauticam #cavecamp
What an awesome course! Thank you @rodrigosalsas, @julien_pranamaya and last but by no means least my buddy @arturo.saltydog for all the laughter (did I mention he is a magician 🎩🤟🏻 so cool haha) So what did I learn? For me the main thing was this sport is incredibly psychologically challenging ... so much respect to the men and women that achieve some serious depth. I can’t wait to come back from the UK to do more. #naomigittoesfins #beuchat #freedivingtraining #aida #pranamaya #cenote #sunshine #apnea #freedivingart
Rough mock ups and rehearsal done in Alina's workshop. Lots of shapes mocked up in illustrator and currently being lazer cut! I think this is one of my most ambitious projects yet and I'm super excited to take it underwater. Lets see how it goes! There are so many stories down there to tell :) #shadow #concept #storytelling #lighting #projection #art #underwaterfilm #workshop #cavediving
You know I don’t think I have ever with ☝🏻 the exception of being creative been naturally good at ANYTHING. I remember my first dive in twinset sucked and many many many dives after that. It took me so long to get it and with each and every course I do it’s a new challenge and comes with its frustrations and triumphs. Then again how boring would life be if you could waltz into everything and just rock (although secretly today it would have been awesome to have put my head underwater and morphed into some kind of aquatic humanoid that could hold its breath impressively ... did not quite happen that way though haha) so here we go square one and hopefully an exciting new branch in my career! #apnea #static #aida #freediving #freedivingtraining #pranamaya
It’s been just over a year since I began to collaborate with @fourthelementdive and what a year it has been! I can honestly say I’m so proud to have the support of such an innovative brand that have helped me in my career to no end, the least of which was providing me with this fantastic drysuit which is still firmly standing without a patch up needed through 8km jungle hikes, repelling, scrambling through kilometres of dry cave and together with their undergarments keeping me warm and dry! It may not look like much but this photo was taken somewhere deep in a cave on the last day of a month long natural history shoot which will be aired next year ... Fourth Element helped put me right HERE in this moment! Exhausted, sweaty and in my absolute own element 🙏 and for that I am eternally grateful. Here is to many more years! #equipmentforadventure #cavediving #filmshoot #expedition #fourthelement #argonaut #stealth #drysuit #exploration 📸 @scott_carnahan
We came to surveeeyy #exploration #resurvey #survey #team #drycaving
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