Underwater photo tutorials, techniques and tips for all types of underwater photo and video, including macro, supermacro, wide-angle, composition and best camera gear.
Improve your underwater wreck photography with these essential tools and tips for lighting, composing and shooting different scenes
By Brook Peterson
Improve your underwater wreck photography with these essential tools and tips for lighting, composing and shooting different scenes
Every scuba dive brings a new adventure, and there is something about diving on a shipwreck that awakens the little kid in me. Maybe it is the mystery of the ship's sinking, or maybe the fantasy that there will be a hidden treasure chest, or maybe it is even a sense of the wandering spirits who are forever trapped in their watery grave.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brook Peterson is an avid scuba diver and underwater photographer who enjoys capturing the beauty of the under water environment throughout the world. She is an original member of the SEA&SEA Alpha program. Her work has been featured in both print and online magazines. She is the owner of Waterdog Photography and authors a blog on underwater photography and techniques. More of her work can be found at:
www.waterdogphotography.com | Facebook | instagram@waterdogphotography_brook.
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The best settings and menu selections for shooting pro-level video with the Panasonic GH4 mirrorless camera
By Bobby Arnold
The best settings and menu selections for shooting pro-level video with the Panasonic GH4 mirrorless camera
The Panasonic GH4 captures incredible 4K video quality and color, rivaling cameras costing many times more. Having shot underwater video with the GH4 since it was released in 2014, I want to share with you what I have learned to get the most of this camera to be able to produce the best possible underwater films.
GH4 Basic Video Settings
Format & Quality
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bobby Arnold starting shooting underwater video in 2001. In 2004 he made the switch to HD using the first available consumer HD video camera. 8 years later he moved from traditional video cameras, to the mirrorless Micro 4/3 cameras, opting for the ability of full manual control in a compact package, with a large selection of lenses to match the needs of each dive location. Bobby lives in Orange County, Southern California and enjoys dives locally as much as possible.
Bobby's video productions can be viewed here:
https://vimeo.com/user786715
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Explore a creative technique to get the most from wide-angle color when shooting with a single strobe and video light
By Brent Durand
Explore a creative technique to get the most from wide-angle color when shooting with a single strobe and video light
Sometimes our creative inspiration comes from difficulties with gear in the field. This is the time when a solid understanding of the principals of photography might help save the shoot, the dive, and even the trip. During the recent Bluewater Photo workshop in Bali, Indonesia, the bulb on one of my YS-D1 strobes bulbs blew on day one.
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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Keep these tips in mind to create crisp, engaging underwater macro photos on compact, mirrorless or dslr cameras
By Brent Durand
Keep these tips in mind to create crisp, engaging underwater macro photos on compact, mirrorless or dslr cameras
Underwater macro photography takes us deep inside the reef, exploring the nuances of a complex, symbiotic ecosystem that many divers swim right past. The inhabitants of this world display the shapes, colors, patterns and textures that inspire even the most radical of sci fi junkies, and it's our priviledge to document those critters and show them to the world.
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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How to use Diopters to shoot supermacro photos, including best aperture, strobe position and best camera lenses
By Mike Bartick
How to use Diopters to shoot supermacro photos, including best aperture, strobe position and best camera lenses
Macro photography has always been my first love for shooting underwater. Taking time to find just the right subject can force me to slow down and enjoy the dive, explore a little more and concentrate on just one thing: making an image. Once that special subject is found, the next task is to photograph it in just the right manner. For this there could be a myriad of options depending on my camera set up. As an SLR shooter, I prefer to use my Nikkor 105mm macro lens on almost every macro dive.
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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Tutorial on how to approach big animals and shoot powerful images in blue water, including photo gear and settings
By Todd Thimios
Tutorial on how to approach big animals and shoot powerful images in blue water, including photo gear and settings
Shooting photographs in open blue water can be one of the most challenging and yet rewarding forms of underwater photography.
For me it has always been the most exciting way to shoot underwater as it requires all kinds of patience and experience while also being full of surprises and split second opportunities. And when all the right factors come into place the encounters can be life changing.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Todd Thimios is a Dive Guide/Instructor for private cliental. A submersible pilot and expedition leader, but foremost a lover of underwater photography/cinematography and marine conservation, with a lust for remote travel and wildlife. He has circumnavigated the globe by private yacht and includes living on a remote Pacific island for 6 years with 500 people as - “as good as it gets.”
www.toddthimios.com | Instagram.com/toddthimios | Facebook.com/toddthimios.tv
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Detailed settings information for using the Sony A7R II camera underwater
By Kelli Dickinson
Detailed settings information for using the Sony A7R II camera underwater
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kelli Dickinson is an avid diver and underwater photographer who shoots primarily on mirrorless cameras. Familiar with a variety of cameras and housings she tries to shoot on as many different options as possible to improve her overall knowledge of underwater camera systems. In addition she is Manager of Bluewater Photo. In her spare time she can be found running, hiking or underwater.
Connect with her on instagram @kelnkelp or at www.kelnkelp.com.
She can be reached via email at kelli@bluewaterphotostore.com.
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Start shooting energetic surf photos with these fundamental tips, including focus, settings and camera gear
By Stan Moniz
Start shooting energetic surf photos with these fundamental tips, including focus, settings and camera gear
There's something to be said about capturing a breaking wave - locking yourself into a barrel with a surfer, stopping time - and capturing that precise moment on camera. Surf photography is a very demanding art form that doesn't only require technical skill, but high physical endurance and a great knowledge and understanding of the surroundings in and out of the water. Critical timing is everything when trying to engage with a surfer. Here are five tips to get you started in the right direction.
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Use your dive or video light to create vibrant underwater photos with your compact camera without use of a strobe
By Brent Durand
Use your dive or video light to create vibrant underwater photos with your compact camera without use of a strobe
The rare red rhinopias rocked forward through the perfect photo composition, greeted with a muffled "clack clack clack" as I fired off three shots at just the right moment. All three frames had excellent exposure, as there was no dark frame indicative of a strobe recycling to full power. There were also no flashes; these photos were shot using just my underwater video lights.
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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Reefscapes, schooling fish and photo tips for capturing unique wide-angle photos in some very rarely dived areas of India
By Erik Lukas
Reefscapes, schooling fish and photo tips for capturing unique wide-angle photos in some very rarely dived areas of India
I had the privilege of joining Bluewater Photo’s Mark Strickland on an amazing 10-day underwater photo workshop to the Andaman Islands, on the beautiful Infiniti Liveaboard. For those who are unfamiliar with the Andaman Islands, they are a territory of India, situated in the Bay of Bengal between India to the west, and Myanmar and Thailand to the east.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Erik Lukas is an active diver and photographer based in Los Angeles, CA. He is a volunteer scuba diver at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA. You can expect to find Erik diving many of the amazing Pacific Ocean sites of Southern California, camera in hand, at any chance he can get.
See more of his underwater photography on Instagram at SeeUnderSea, or visit his website at www.seeundersea.com.
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