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3 Essential Camera Settings for Shooting Underwater

By Brent Durand

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Brent Durand

3 Essential Camera Settings for Shooting Underwater

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3 Essential Camera Settings for Shooting Underwater

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Tips to Capture Incredible Schooling Fish Photos

By Craig Dietrich

Pelagic Fish Photography

Craig Dietrich

Tips to Capture Incredible Schooling Fish Photos

What’s a pelagic school of fish? The term “pelagic” refers to fish that live neither close to the bottom (called “demersal” fish), nor close to the surface, nor on a reef. They are the fish that we see at open water dive sites subject to currents and chance encounters with large marine life.

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The Essentials of Muck Dive Photography

By Mike Bartick

A Photographer's Guide to Muck Diving

Mike Bartick

The Essentials of Muck Dive Photography

The scuba industry has coined the phrase “Muck Diving” to describe a style of diving or a location. Most of these muck dive sites/locations share many of the same characteristics worldwide and should be approached differently than their reef or open water counterparts.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mike Bartick is an avid and experienced scuba diver and Marine Wildlife Photographer. He has an insatiable love for nudibranchs, frogfish and other underwater critters, and is the official critter expert for the Underwater Photography Guide. Mike is also one of the UWPG trip leaders. See more of his work at www.saltwaterphoto.com.

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Tips for Strobe Positioning, Power Settings and General Shooting

By Brent Durand

Shooting with a Single Strobe

Brent Durand

Tips for Strobe Positioning, Power Settings and General Shooting

Strobes are a light in the darkness for underwater photography – literally. We learn in open water scuba classes about light falloff (starting with red) as we descend in the water column. We also know that the water itself gets darker as we descend, especially when visibility is less than 30ft (10m), when clouds block the sun or (obviously) at night. Using a strobe will bring not only light, but also vivid color and contrast back into the scene.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Brent Durand is a weekend wanderer and story teller from California.

Brent is an avid diver and adventure photographer, and shoots underwater any time he can get hands on a camera system. He can be reached at brent@uwphotographyguide.com.

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Advanced Technique: Capture Wide Underwater Vistas

By Rico Besserdich

Shooting Underwater Panoramas

Rico Besserdich

Advanced Technique: Capture Wide Underwater Vistas

Shooting Underwater Panoramas

Advanced Technique: Capture Wide Underwater Vistas

Text and Photos By Rico Besserdich

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Photographing an Underwater Dive Model Made Easy

By Christina & Eusebio Saenz de Santamaria

Tips for Dive Model Photography

Christina & Eusebio Saenz de Santamaria

Photographing an Underwater Dive Model Made Easy

There is an old saying that goes “never work with animals or children due to their unpredictable nature”, but I guess the actor W.C. Fields, who coined this phrase, never tried his hand at dive model photography! The underwater realm is a far cry from the dry safety of a movie set, however the mercurial mixture of water, wildlife and breath-holding models presents a very different and sometimes equally challenging equation to work with.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

One ocean One breath’ is a creative collaboration between professional freedivers, husband and wife duo, Eusebio and Christina Saenz de Santamaria. Eusebio from Spain is the co-founder of ‘Apnea Total’, one of the world’s largest freediving education systems, and is one of the few men to have surpassed 100 metres (328 feet) in depth in the self-powered disciplines of freediving. Christina, originally from Australia, holds the record as the deepest Australian female freediver in history with dives to 82 metres (270 feet) in depth, and ranked in the top 5 deepest women in the world.

When not teaching or training on their island home of Koh Tao in Thailand, they are exploring the world’s ocean on one breath with camera in hand, learning and discovering more about their passions for freediving, underwater photography and filming.

For more information, please visit their websites:

www.oneoceanonebreath.com

www.apneatotal.com

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Is a Mirrorless Camera Right for You?

By Matt Krumins

5 Reasons to go Mirrorless

5 Reasons To Go Mirrorless

Matt Krumins

Is a Mirrorless Camera Right for You?

As an underwater mirrorless shooter and u/w photography instructor I am frequently quizzed about why I shoot micro-four-thirds and not dSLR. Compact camera shooters often ask for advice on whether they should take the next step into the interchangeable lens systems.

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Matt Krumins is the owner and operator of Deeper Than Diving UW Photography and ambassador to the Olympus underwater housing range. His experience in UW photography is concentrated around the Asia Pacific region and it has led him to launch his own unique, fun and contemporary brand of UW photography courses based in Australia. To follow his photography and course information jump onto www.facebook.com/deeperthandiving and be sure to check out www.deeperthandiving.com.

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The Spider Crabs of Rye Pier

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Thinking Outside the Box to Capture Stunning Macro Detail

By Rico Besserdich

Tips for Artistic Macro Shooting

Rico Besserdich

Thinking Outside the Box to Capture Stunning Macro Detail

Macro is arguably the most popular underwater photography category, attracting divers in all corners of the globe.

Classic underwater macro photography has its own styles, techniques and objectives. We have all seen the great images produced with these techniques, but sometimes the images start to look very similar to each other, especially after the 100th pygmy seahorse or frogfish photo. This is when the desire to shoot different macro images begins to grow in u/w shooters’ hearts.

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Creating Artistic Photos with Narrow Beams of Light

By Matt Krumins

Top 5 Shooting Tips for Underwater Snoots

Matt Krumins

Creating Artistic Photos with Narrow Beams of Light

Unlike some of my warm water counterparts, my diving patch is located in Victoria, Australia. It rarely cracks 20 degrees Celsius, 20m visibility is astonishing and the vast majority of our ocean floor is a messy and complicated mix of weeds, sponges, broken shell and sand. Luckily, this visually puzzling bottom composition camouflages a treasure trove of macro life that surrounds our piers, and it can all be found in just a few meters of water.

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Tips for Capturing the Moment of Peak Action

By Todd Winner

Shooting Fast Action Underwater

Todd Winner

Tips for Capturing the Moment of Peak Action

Shooting Fast Action Underwater

Tips for Capturing the Moment of Peak Action

Text and Photos By Todd Winner

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