Technique/Tutorial

Underwater photo tutorials, techniques and tips for all types of underwater photo and video, including macro, supermacro, wide-angle, composition and best camera gear.

Great tips to consider for shore diving and special considerations for your camera
By Brent Durand

10 Tips for Fun Beach Diving

Brent Durand
Great tips to consider for shore diving and special considerations for your camera

10 Tips for Fun Beach Diving


A few tips from an experienced California beach diver and underwater photographer

By Brent Durand

January 2013

 

Reef Scene in Malibu

Great beach dive conditions in Southern California.

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From shooting manual to checking your histogram, thinking about these settings will dramatically improve your underwater photography.
By Scott Gietler

Top 5 Settings To Improve Your Underwater Photos

Top 5 Settings That Will Improve Your Underwater Photography
Scott Gietler
From shooting manual to checking your histogram, thinking about these settings will dramatically improve your underwater photography.

Starfish on jetty photo - F18, 1/320th, ISO 100, Nikon D7000, Tokina 10-17mm lens at 10mm

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Scott Gietler is the owner of Bluewater Photo, Bluewater Travel, and the Underwater Photography Guide. Bluewater Photo, based in Culver City, CA is one of the world’s largest and most prestigious underwater camera stores, serving many thousands of customers each year, where nothing is more important than customer service. The Underwater Photography Guide is the world’s first website to feature free tutorials on underwater photography, and has become the most trafficked resource on underwater photography worldwide. Bluewater Travel is a full-service dive travel wholesaler sending groups and individuals on the world’s best dive vacations. 

Scott is also an avid diver, underwater photographer, and budding marine biologist, having created the online guide to the underwater flora and fauna of Southern California. He is the past vice-president of the Los Angeles Underwater Photographic Society, has volunteered extensively at the Santa Monica aquarium, and is the creator of the Ocean Art underwater photo competition, one of the largest underwater international photo competitions ever held in terms of value of prizes. He lives in California with his wife, newborn girl and scuba-diving, photo taking 4 year old son.

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Improve your underwater photography by learning from these common mistakes made my new underwater photographers.
By Michael Zeigler

Top 5 Tips for New Underwater Photographers

Michael Zeigler
Improve your underwater photography by learning from these common mistakes made my new underwater photographers.

Top 5 Tips for New Underwater Photographers

Learn from these mistakes to help improve your underwater photography

By Michael Zeigler

 

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Our top 5 underwater camera recommendations that would make excellent Christmas gifts
By Travis Ball

Top 5 Underwater Cameras for Christmas 2012

Travis Ball
Our top 5 underwater camera recommendations that would make excellent Christmas gifts

Top 5 Underwater Cameras for Christmas 2012

By Travis Ball

 

Sony RX100

 

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Shooting Underwater with Big Cameras, Wide Lenses and Large, Powerful Strobes
By Matthew Meier

Shooting Underwater with Big Cameras, Wide Lenses and Large, Powerful Strobes

Matthew Meier
Shooting Underwater with Big Cameras, Wide Lenses and Large, Powerful Strobes

 

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For the Olympus OM-D, E-PL3, E-PL5, Panasonic GX1, GF2 and more...
By Scott Gietler

Best Micro-four lenses for underwater photography

Best micro four-thirds lenses for Underwater Photography
Scott Gietler
For the Olympus OM-D, E-PL3, E-PL5, Panasonic GX1, GF2 and more...

There are many good options for lenses if you're an underwater photography who owns a mirrorless micro four-thirds camera like the Olympus E-PL1, E-PL2, E-PL3, OM-D E-M5, E-PM1, or the Panasonic GF1, GF2, GH2, or GX1. Let's take a look at some of my favorites for underwater:

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Scott Gietler is the owner of Bluewater Photo, Bluewater Travel, and the Underwater Photography Guide. Bluewater Photo, based in Culver City, CA is one of the world’s largest and most prestigious underwater camera stores, serving many thousands of customers each year, where nothing is more important than customer service. The Underwater Photography Guide is the world’s first website to feature free tutorials on underwater photography, and has become the most trafficked resource on underwater photography worldwide. Bluewater Travel is a full-service dive travel wholesaler sending groups and individuals on the world’s best dive vacations. 

Scott is also an avid diver, underwater photographer, and budding marine biologist, having created the online guide to the underwater flora and fauna of Southern California. He is the past vice-president of the Los Angeles Underwater Photographic Society, has volunteered extensively at the Santa Monica aquarium, and is the creator of the Ocean Art underwater photo competition, one of the largest underwater international photo competitions ever held in terms of value of prizes. He lives in California with his wife, newborn girl and scuba-diving, photo taking 4 year old son.

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We share our top ten tips for capturing amazing underwater portraits.
By Michael Zeigler

Top 10 Tips for Amazing Portraits

Michael Zeigler
We share our top ten tips for capturing amazing underwater portraits.

Have you ever taken a photo, reviewed it on the LCD screen, and thought to yourself, "Nailed it!"? Chances are you have, and chances are it wasn't on accident. 

We've compiled our Top 10 Tips for Amazing Portraits, and we'll share some of our favorite underwater portraits as well.  Be sure to take some notes, and refer back to them before your next underwater adventure. Hey . . . I don't see you writing!

 

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How to make a reliable rope handle for your underwater housing
By Michael Zeigler

Get a Handle on your Housing

DIY Project: Underwater Housing Rope Handle
Michael Zeigler
How to make a reliable rope handle for your underwater housing

Fun fact #324: This hobby is expensive. Protecting my invesment is of utmost importance to me, and at the same time I like to help the boat crews that I frequent make handling my rig as easy as possible. 

Handing a rig (large or small) to a crew member near the swim-step of a swaying vessel can, at times, be less than easy. After too many close calls of a dropped rig, or a rig grabbed by a sync cord (only takes once), I decided to look into getting a lanyard handle for my housing.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Zeigler is a contributor, instructor, and trip leader for the Underwater Photography Guideand Bluewater Photo, as well as an AAUS Scientific Diver. Michael's underwater photography and blog can be seen at SeaInFocus.com.

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Tips and techniques for how, when, and where to get the best possible sunburst shot underwater.
By Todd Winner

Photographing A Perfect Sunburst

Todd Winner
Tips and techniques for how, when, and where to get the best possible sunburst shot underwater.

Photographing A Perfect Sunburst

Tips and techniques for how, when, and where to get the best possible sunburst shot underwater

By Todd Winner

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The little things I learned in Anilao that made a big difference in my underwater photography.
By Nayan Savla

What I Learned On The Anilao Photo Workshop

Nayan Savla
The little things I learned in Anilao that made a big difference in my underwater photography.

What I Learned On The Anilao Photo Workshop

The little things I learned in Anilao that made a big difference in my underwater photography

By Nayan Savla
 
 
 

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