Underwater Composition for Beginners

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Guide for Beginners
- Introduction
- FAQ
- Underwater Basics
- Camera Basics
- Lens Basics
- Compact cameras
- Great Underwater Photos Without a Strobe
- From Compact To dSLR: Preparing For The Switch
- Video Tutorials
  - Wet Lenses
Underwater Photography Equipment
- Equipment Photos
- Camera Body Basics
  - Introduction to Mirrorless Cameras for Underwater Photography
    - 5 Reasons to go Mirrorless
  - Shooting Underwater with Big Cameras, Wide Lenses and Large, Powerful Strobes
- Camera Selection Guide
- Underwater Camera Housings
- Best Lenses for Underwater Photography
- Underwater Strobes
- Dome Ports and Macro Ports
- Dome Ports and Wide-Angle Optics
  - Sea & Sea Glass & Acrylic Dome Port tests
- Video & Focus Lights
- Other Underwater Gear & Equipment
- TTL Converter Options
- Checklist and Cost of Equipment
- Best GoPro Hero 7 and 8 Underwater Settings
Settings & Technical Info
- Best Underwater Settings for Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II Camera
  - Nikon Z7, Z7II, Z6, Z6II Underwater Settings
  - Panasonic GH6 Underwater Settings
  - Sony A7S III Underwater Settings
- Canon EOS R5 Underwater Settings
- Canon G7X II Best Settings
- Getting To Know Your Camera's Image Quality Formats
- Olympus OM-D and PEN underwater settings
- Panasonic LX100 Settings for Underwater Video
- Sony a7R II Best Video Settings for Underwater
- Top 5 Settings To Improve Your Underwater Photos
- Understanding Exposure
- Underwater Settings for Sony RX100 II & III & IV & V
- Utilizing Instant Recall Modes on your dSLR
- Aperture
  - F8 and Be There
- Shutter Speed
- Understanding ISO
  - How High Can You Increase Your ISO?
- Underwater Camera Modes
- RAW versus JPEG
- Settings for Macro and Wide-Angle
  - Canon S90/S95/S100 G11/G12 Settings
  - Nikon D300 & D90 Underwater settings
  - Ultimate Guide to Canon 7D Underwater Settings
  - Underwater Photography Tutorial - Canon G11, G12
  - Underwater Settings for the Sony RX 100
  - When Auto is Better than Manual - S and A Modes
  - Understanding your underwater camera settings
- Changing Settings on a dive
- Histograms
- Reciprocity and stops
- Technical Information
  - Full Frame vs Cropped Sensors
Tutorials
- Macro Underwater Photography
  - A Photographer's Guide to Muck Diving
  - Bokeh
    - The Hidden Bokeh Benefit of Snoot Photography
    - Top Ten Tips for Nice Underwater Bokeh
  - Creative DIY Bokeh
  - DSLR and TG-5: A New Level of Underwater Photography
  - Essential Tips for Nudibranch Photography
  - Five DSLR Life-hacks for Great Macro Photography
  - How to Improve your Fish Portraits
  - How to Shoot Stills with a Video Light
  - Macro Methods: Sharp Eyes and Nice Bokeh
  - Macro Wide Open
  - Macro with a dome port
  - Marelux SOFT Lite Snoot Review
  - Nauticam EMWL (Extended Macro Wide Angle) Lens Review
  - Photo Tips for Blackwater Diving
  - Pushing the Limits of Macro with a Compact Camera
  - The Art of Blackwater Photography
  - The Quick Guide to Macro Composition
  - Tips for Artistic Macro Shooting
  - Tips for Shooting with Diopters
  - Ultimate Guide to Snoot Photography
- Super macro Photography
  - Learning Super Macro in Papua New Guinea
  - Story Behind the Shot: Bettina Balnis
  - Story Behind the Shot: Super Macro in Puget Sound
  - Stunning Super Macro with Diopters
  - Teleconverters
  - Supermacro with the New SubSee Diopter
- Wide-Angle Photography
  - 3 Quick Tips for Dive Buddy Photos
  - 9 Wide Angle Underwater Photography Tips
  - Ambient Light
    - 10 Essential Ambient Light U/W Photo Tips
    - Ambient Photography: An Artist’s Pursuit for the Most Natural Underwater Photography
    - Tips to Create Striking Ambient Light Photos
  - Are You Playing to Win or Playing Not to Lose?
  - Capturing Fast Ocean Action
  - Fisheye Lens vs. Wide-Angle Lens
  - Guide to Shooting Striking Sunbursts
  - Ocean Art Wide-Angle Winner
  - Shooting Tips: Canon 5D Mark IV in Poor Vis
  - Shooting Tips: Sharks and Sunbursts
  - Shooting from the Hip
  - Shooting with a Dive Model
  - Ten Amazing Photos You Can Take With A Fisheye Lens
  - The Big Picture: Shooting Reefscapes
  - Ultimate Guide to Photographing Sea Lions Up Close
  - Whale Shark Photo & Video Tips
  - Wide Angle Tutorial on the Oil Rigs
  - Wide-Angle Photography in Low Light Conditions
  - Wide-Angle Strobe Exposures
  - Shooter's Toolbox: Balanced Light
    - Story of the Shot: Todd Winner
- Image Sharpness
- Photographing Schools of Fish
  - Fish photography
  - Pelagic Fish Photography
- Underwater Models
  - Inside Look: Gear for Shooting Models in Pools
  - Top tips for working with a model underwater
- Post-processing & Photoshop
  - 5 Easy Steps To Process Your Underwater Photos
  - Adobe Lightroom 4 released, with video editing
    - Lightroom 4.2 Update Supports Sony RX100
  - Color Filters vs. Post-Processing
  - Cropping example
  - Enhancing your Images with Photoshop
  - How to Create a Fractal Image in Photoshop
  - How to Remove Backscatter Quickly & Easily with Photoshop
  - How to convert images to black & white
  - Keeping Your Digital Images Safe
  - Lessons on Copyright
    - Copyright, Trademark and Patent – The Difference
    - How to Register Your Images
    - Why You Should Register Your Images
  - Lightroom 3 Adjustment Brush
  - Lightroom CC vs Lightroom Classic
  - Lightroom Lens Correction
  - Lightroom Overview - Who and Why you should use Lightroom
  - Lightroom Tips & Tricks: Crop Image Overlay Tool
  - Lightroom Tips & Tricks: The Spray Can Tool
  - Lightroom Tricks: Adjusting Tones using the Histogram
  - Lightroom for the Rest of Us
  - Nikon Releases RAW Image Processing Software
  - One-Click Editing with Vivid-Pix
  - Optimizing Your Lightroom Workflow
  - ProRes RAW Now Possible with Nikon Z6/Z7
  - Removing Backscatter in Photoshop
  - Removing Backscatter with Photoshop’s Content Aware Tool
  - The Basics of Editing Underwater Photos in Adobe Lightroom
  - Using Dehaze in new Adobe Lightroom CC
  - Vivid-Pix Land & Sea 1-click Photo Editing
  - Workflow Basics in Adobe Lightroom
  - Underwater Photoshop Lesson - Gaussian Blur
- Improving your Underwater Photography
  - 5 Tips for Underwater Photography at Night
  - Advance your Skills with Underwater Photography Workshops
  - Creating Simple and Strong Compositions
  - Making Underwater Photography Simple with the TG-5
  - Stories from a Underwater photo workshop
  - Take Your Photography to the Next Level
  - Visualization to Realization
- 5 Photos you Need in your Portfolio
- 5 Tips for Surf Photography
- 7 Tips for Great Sea Lion Photos
- A Field Guide to Blackwater Diving in Hawai‘i
- Adobe Lightroom vs Photoshop for Underwater Photographers
- Best Photoshop Tips for Underwater Photography
- Best Strobe Positions for Underwater Macro Photography
- Best Ways to Protect the Ocean
- Capture Great Photos in Blue Water
- Color Space, Color Profiles, and Color Management
- Editing Video With GoPro Quik
- Fish Photography
- How to Choose Award Winning Images
- How to Combine Strobe and Video Light
- How to Set Up and Maintain Your Underwater Camera
- Jason Ching: Photographing Alaska Salmon
- Mermaids and Underwater Fashion Photography
- Nauticam M10 Ball Mount Installation
- Panasonic GH4 Underwater Video Settings
- Photographing Pygmy Seahorses
- Picture Perfect: What Makes a Good Image Great
- Preparing Photos For Print
- Pro Tips for Achieving Sharp Focus
- Selling Your Photos: Art Shows and Printing
- The Essentials of Wave Photography
- Top 10 Tips for Photographing Eels and Eel-Like Fish
- Top Stay-at-Home Tutorials for Underwater Photography
- Underwater Photography Technique: Envision Your Capture
- Using a Crop Sensor Lens on a Full Frame Camera (and Vise Versa)
- Wide Angle Macro Photography
Lighting & Strobes
- Lighting Fundamentals
- Shooting with a Single Strobe
- Strobe Positioning for Wide-Angle Underwater
- Ambient Light & Manual White Balance
- Getting Good Blues Underwater
- Magic Filters
- Underwater Lighting with Strobes
- Backscatter in underwater photography, cause and prevention
- Strobe Positioning
- Preventing Hot Spots In Underwater Photography
- Strobes on Manual Power
- Underwater Snoots
Underwater Composition
- 3 Reasons to Shoot Vertical
- Close Focus Wide Angle (CFWA)
- Composition for Beginners
- Diagonal Underwater Composition
- Face-on Composition
- Frozen Perspectives: Behind the Scenes on Greenland Iceberg Photo Composition and Post-Processing
- The Secrets of Shooting Amazing Patterns
- Top 10 Tips for Amazing Portraits
- Underwater Composition: Fill the Frame
- Intermediate Composition
  - Careful Composition in your Underwater Photos
- More Composition Ideas
- Wrecks, Silhouettes, Close-focus WA Compositions
- Artistic Compositions
- Sharks, sea fans, people
  - Story of the Shot: Douglas Hoffman
- Lens choices and Composition
- Natural Light Underwater - Capturing the Surface
  - Guide to Manual White Balance on the Sony a6500
- Over-Under Photography
  - 5 Tips for Awesome Over-Under Shots
- Creative Shooting
- Sunbursts and Sunballs
  - Photographing A Perfect Sunburst
Underwater Video
- 10 Tips for Shooting Underwater Video
- 3 Tips for Underwater Macro Video
- 5 Best Underwater Video Editing Tips
- Best Underwater Video Cameras
- Best Underwater Video Lights
- Creating Videos with GoPro Studio 2.0
- External Underwater Video Monitors & Recorders
- Light & Motion Sola 2500 Review
- SeaLife announces new Sea Dragon Duo 10K+ Color Boost™ Underwater Photo-Video Light Set
- Sony A7R III 4K Underwater Video
- Sony a6400 Underwater Video
- Video with the Panasonic GH5
Dive Destinations
- Best Dive Destinations in the World
  - 10 Epic Shark Dive Destinations
  - Alor: Indonesia's Secret Gem
  - Best UK Diving
  - Cave Photography in Mexico's Lesser-Known Cenotes
  - Choosing a dive destination
  - Critters in Ambon Photo Essay
  - Dancing with (Sea) Dragons in South Australia
  - Dispatch from Batanta Island
  - Dispatch from Yap, Micronesia
  - Diving Cabilao, Bohol: A Wall Diving Underwater Photography Tutorial
  - Diving Fiji after Cyclone Winston
  - Diving French Poly: Moorea, Bora Bora, and Huahine
  - Diving Japan's Ogasawara Islands
  - Diving Komodo, Indonesia
  - Diving Timor-Leste (East Timor)
  - Diving the Mexico Cenotes
  - Diving the World's Fastest Tidal Current
  - Diving with Volcanoes
  - Dolphin Play in Bimini
  - Epic Photo Destinations: French Polynesia
  - Epic Photo Destinations: Raja Ampat
  - Epic Photo Destinations: Solomon Islands
  - Fisheyed in Fakarava - Premiere Shark Diving
  - Hawaii Underwater
  - Jurassic Park Meets The Beach
  - Photo Dispatch from Alor, Indonesia
  - Photo Dispatch from Misool, Raja Ampat
  - Photo Dispatch from Siau, Indonesia
  - Raja Ampat After Dark
  - Singapore’s First Marine Park
  - Striped Marlin and Baitballs in Mexico - An Adrenaline Rush
  - Swimming with Dinosaurs in Mexico
  - The Hammerheads of Bimini
  - The Unforgettable Red Sea
  - Top 10 Macro Photography Destinations
  - Top 5 Big Animal Encounters
  - Wall of Sharks, Thousands of Groupers & More in French Polynesia
  - What You Need to Know about Diving Tiger Beach
  - Wide-Angle in Bunaken Marine Park
  - Wide-Angle in the Andaman Islands
  - Choosing a Dive Destination, Part 2
- 5 Reasons to Dive Malapascua
- A Guide to Mixing Business with (Scuba) Pleasure
- Anda, Bohol: The Hidden Gem of the Philippines
- Anilao, Philippines
  - Anilao Photo Essay
  - Anilao Shootout Winners 2011
  - Anilao Underwater Photo Workshop and Shootout 2011
  - Anilao Workshop Photo Essay
  - Anilao Workshop Photo Essay December 2017
  - Anilao in Photos - A Must-Visit Destination
  - Beautiful Underwater Photos from Anilao
  - Sogod Bay: Dive Paradise off the Beaten Track (pg 3)
  - Sogod Bay: Dive Paradise off the Beaten Track (pg2)
  - Sogod Bay: Dive Paradise off the Beaten Track
- Antarctica
  - Diving in the South Georgia Islands
- Baja Underwater: Where Desert Sun Meets Blue Sea
- Blue Whales in Sri Lanka with Theresa Guise and Peter de Maagt
- Bonaire
- Cocos Island
- Coiba: Fish Photography at Surprise Island
- Cozumel, Mexico
  - Diving Cozumel: A Photo Essay
- Discovering Shetland, Scotland
- Dispatch from Reunion Island
- Dive Adventure: Arenui Liveaboard
- Dive Adventure: Dive Damai
- Dive Adventure: Diving the Arctic
- Dive Adventure: Grand Cayman
- Dive Adventure: Valparaiso, Chile
- Dive Ancient Ruins of Lion City in Qiandao Lake
- Diving Bali
  - An Unforgettable Octopus Encounter
  - Bali: A Diving Safari To "The Other Side"
  - Diving Nusa Penida, Bali
  - Diving Tulamben, Bali: Macro, Wide and Wreck!
  - Photographer's Guide to Tulamben
- Diving Belize
- Diving Cabo San Lucas & Cabo Pulmo
  - A Weekend Dive Getaway in Cabo
- Diving Cebu, Philippines
- Diving Curacao
  - Must Do Diving in Curacao
- Diving Grand Bahama Island
- Diving Jeju Island, South Korea
- Diving Kenya
- Diving La Paz
  - La Paz 2010 workshop at Club Cantamar
  - La Paz Through a Mollusk Photographer's Lens
  - UWPG La Paz photo workshop 2011
  - Underwater Photo Journey Through La Paz
- Diving Malapascua – Beyond the Thresher Sharks
- Diving Reunion Island
- Diving Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
  - Photo Journey Through Southeast Sulawesi
- Diving into Egyptian History: Cleopatra's Palace
- Diving into History: The Flooded Farms
- Diving on the Socorro Vortex
- Diving the Bay Islands of Honduras
- Dominican Republic
  - Beyond the Resorts: Diving in the Dominican Republic
- Dumaguete
  - Dive Adventure: Dumaguete
- Fiji
  - Aboard Nai'a, Destination: Fiji
  - The Colorful Fish of Fiji
  - The Vibrant Soft Corals of Fiji
- Galapagos Islands
  - An Immersion into Evolution: Galapagos Photo Essay
  - Buddy Dive starts Galapagos Island, Wolf / Darwin itinerary
- Guadalupe Island
  - Diving with Great White Sharks
  - One Shark Diver's Perspective: Caged vs Open Water Shark Diving
  - Story of the Shot: Guadalupe Island
  - The Cage Diving Experience and Photo Tips
- Heaven is a Place on Earth: Diving Mauritius
- Ice Diving Greenland: A Story of Icebergs, Frozen Critters, and Unique Lingo
- Iceland: Diving in the Land of Fire and Ice
- Jupiter by Surprise
- Macro Surprises at the Blue Heron Bridge
- Malpelo: A Must-Visit for Big Fish Photographers
  - Malpelo in Photos - Sharks & Big Fish Galore
  - Silky Sharks of Malpelo Island
- Marsa Shagra, Red Sea
- Northern Exploring: Discovering the Remote Arctic
- Our Favorite Dive Destinations, Part 1
- Pacific Northwest
  - Photo Essay: Port Hardy, British Columbia
  - Portraits from God's Pocket
- Palau
  - Palau Workshop Report - Epic Diving!
- Papua New Guinea, PNG
  - Diving Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea
  - Diving Papua New Guinea on the MV Febrina
  - Diving Papua New Guinea, Part II: Macro
- Philippines Diving Hot Spot: Moalboal (pg 2)
- Philippines Diving Hot Spot: Moalboal
- Photographing the Wrecks of the St. Lawrence River (pg 2)
- Photographing the Wrecks of the St. Lawrence River
- Putting Kosrae on the Map
- Raja Ampat
  - Raja Ampat Dive Report
  - Raja Ampat on the Indo-Siren - massive fish report
  - Misool and Triton Bay on the Arenui
- Russia's White Sea
- SCUBA Diving Mozambique
- Sea of Cortez: Photo Workshop Trip Report
  - Inspiring Photos from the Sea of Cortez
  - Secret Dances in the Sand Flats
  - Secret Macro Subjects of the Sea of Cortez
  - Wide-Angle in the Sea of Cortez & Midriff Islands
- Sipadan
  - Sipadan History and Upcoming Underwater Camera Ban
- Socorro Islands
  - Big Animal Encounter: Humpback Whales
  - Socorro Island Adventure on the Solmar V
  - Socorro Workshop Photos & Report
  - The Circle of Life at Socorro
  - Vortex: The Full Ride
- Solomon Islands
  - 10 Dive Sites you Must See in the Solomon Islands
- Southern Red Sea
- St. Vincent
- Swimming with Crocodiles in Banco Chinchorro
- The Allure of Papua New Guinea
- The Amazing and Unique Underwater World of Blackwater Diving
- The Best Kept Shark Diving Secret: Cuba (pg 2)
- The Best Kept Shark Diving Secret: Cuba
- The Two Faces of Dumaguete
- Tonga
- Trip Report: Komodo
- Trip Report: Tioman Island
- Truk Lagoon
- Under the Jungle in México's Flooded Caves
- Underwater Photographer's Guide to Raja Ampat
- Bunaken Island diving
- Lembeh diving
  - Diving KBR Resort Lembeh
- Kona, Hawaii
  - Huge School of Fish Loved by Photographers Almost Captured by Fishermen
  - Manta Ray Night Dive
- Siladen
- Channel Islands, USA
  - California Sea Lions Nursing at Eureka Rigs
  - Channel Islands Diving Report
  - How to Get the Shot: Oil Rigs
  - The Wild Side of the Channel Islands
  - Catalina Island
- Best Diving & Underwater Photography Locations in Southeast Asia
- Muck Diving
  - Dive Adventure: Blue Heron Bridge
  - The Bali Muck Diving Experience
  - Underwater Photo Essay: Ambon, Indonesia
- Adelaide, Australia
  - Rapid bay jetty
  - Edithburgh Jetty
- Hanifaru Bay, Maldives
  - Maldives Liveaboard Photo Essay
- Vietnam
- Best Shark Diving Destinations
- Diving Ticao and Donsol, the Philippines
- Milford Sound
Diving and Dive Travel
- 10 Tips for Fun Beach Diving
- Dive Equipment
- Dive Travel: Making a List
- Diving Under the Ice
- Shore Diving with a dSLR
- Trip Planning - Article 1
- Underwater Photography On A Non-Diving Vacation
- Dive Site Research and Planning
- Dive Etiquette
- Liveaboard or Resort Diving?
  - Inside Look at a Philippines Liveaboard Photo Workshop
  - Is a liveboard right for you?
- Etiquette on Liveaboards and at Resorts
- Packing, baggage fees and Insurance
  - Baggage Fees
  - Beating Airline Baggage fees, part 2
  - Must-Pack Items for your Underwater Photo Trip
  - Packing Strategies for Traveling Photographers
  - Top 10 Tips for Dive Travel
- Lessons learned - dive safety
- Navigating the Kelp Forest Safely Underwater and Still Getting that Great Shot
- A Family Humpback Adventure in Moorea
- Get the Most from your Photo Workshop
- I Went for a Dive in the Gulf of Maine and I Saw One Fish
- Inside Look: Cold Water Expeditions
- Liveaboard Customizations for Photographers
- Photo Tips for Adventure Diving and Expeditions
- The Packing Guide for Underwater Photographers
- Time is Perfection: the Launch of the Socorro Vortex
- Kruger park safari logistics and photography information
Underwater Photography Tips
- Top 5 Tips for New Underwater Photographers
- Easy Ways to Eliminate Backscatter in your Photos
- Essential Drift Diving Photo Tips
- The Breakdown on Back Button Focus
- Underwater Video Tips
  - Guide to underwater video with the Canon 7D
  - Howard Hall's amazing underwater video
- Achieving Fast Focus Underwater
- Focusing in Low Light Underwater
- Great Color in your Underwater Photos
- How to Choose Photos for a Competition
- How to Start Taking Underwater Photos
- It's All in the Flash
- Never Leave Your Macro Gear at Home
- Shallow Depth of Field Underwater
- Shooting Fast Action Underwater
- Shooting Great Portraits of Sharks
- The Art of Backlighting Waves
- Tips for Capturing Marine Life Behavior
- Tips for Dive Model Photography
- Tips to Capture Amazing Freshwater Images
- Top 11 Tips for Cenote Photography
Marine Life
- Photographing Behavior Underwater
- Marine Life Behavior
  - An 8-Arm Camera Thief
  - In The News: Fish Uses Tool to Get Food
  - Nudibranch Self Defense in Action
  - Sperm Whale Photography with Franco Banfi
- Marine Taxonomy
- 10 Underwater Creature Facts You Don't Know
- 5 Critters You Must See in the Indo-Pacific
- Underwater Critter List
  - Indo-Pacific Critter Guide Gets Updated
- California Marine Life
- Bartick's Water Column: Mimic, Muck, & Beyond
- Bartick's Water Column: Searching for Rhinopias
- Celebrating California's Underwater Parks
- Diving Underwater With Manatees
- Diving with Whale Sharks: Isla Mujeres, Mexico
- Diving with the West Papua Whale Sharks
- Fascinating Creatures of the Pacific Northwest
- January Critter Season
- 3 Tips to Capture Manta Ray Action
- An Encounter with Orcas in Mexico
- Behind the Scenes at Bimini Sharklab
- California Squid Run: A Photo Essay
- Caribbean Creature Feature: Glass Blennies
- Caribbean Creature Feature: Hamlets
- Caribbean Creature Feature: The Secretary Blenny
- Cephalopods of Okinawa, Japan
- Coral Reefs Now More Resistant to Ocean Warming than a Decade Ago
- Diving with Devils - Ultimate Guide to Manta Rays
- Encounter with an Oceanic Whitetip Shark
- Environmental Message Behind Darwin's Dream Film
- Face-to-Face with Killer Whales
- Facts about Orcas, aka Killer Whales
- Get Involved: Protecting Our Ocean
- Green Sea Turtles
- How Coral Photography Can Inspire Your Next Dive
- Inside Look: Training Sharks to Eat Lionfish
- Interview with Rene Umberger - Scuba Diver who was attacked underwater
- Knowing your Subject: its Habits, Habitat and Behavior
- Lionfish Invade the Mediterranean
- Photographing Signal Blennies
- Plastic Pollution: What You Can Do to Save Our Oceans
- Satellite Tagging – The SHARC Tag Program
- Sea Stars of the Ocean
- Secret Worlds Magnified
- Seeing Double: Colorful Fish Couples
- The Craziest Critters in Lembeh
- The Gentle Giants of the Pacific Northwest
- The Mimic Octopus: Photos, Behavior and Best Dive Sites
- The Sand Tiger Sharks of North Carolina
- The Spider Crabs of Rye Pier
- Three Crazy Critters of the Dauin Coast
- Tips for Interacting with Dolphins and Whales
- Tips to Capture Vibrant Manta Ray Photos
- Ultimate Guide to Sea Turtle Photography
- Video: Octopus Life, Death & Birth
- Wolf Eels: A Face Only a Mother Could Love
- Mouthbrooding Cardinalfish
- Once in a Lifetime Humpback Whale Experience
- Photographing Manatees
  - Swimming with the Manatees in Crystal River
- Return to Tiger Beach
- Shark Angels - Making a Difference
- The Hunt For The Pink Frogfish
- Where and How to Photograph Basking Sharks
- Black Sea Bass
- Blue Ringed Octopus
- Bobbit worm - ambush predator, Eunice aphroditois
- Frogfish
- Giant Kelp Forests
- Harlequin Shrimp
- Jellyfish & Salps
  - Diving underwater with giant jellyfish
  - Jellyfish Encounters
  - Photographing Jellyfish Lakes
- Bartick's Critter Column: Reflecting on 2011
- Blue-water Diving for Pelagic Invertebrates
- Bluefin Tuna - What You Can Do
- Leafy Sea Dragon
- Nudibranchs
  - A Nudibranch Safari in Norway
  - Basic Breakdown: Nudibranch Defenses
  - How to Find Nudibranchs
  - Kevin Lee Photos Featured At Univ Of Connecticut
  - The Sand Dwelling Slugs of California
  - 3 Really Unique Nudibranchs
- Pacific Seahorse Photos
  - Hippocampus ingens
- Wonderpus Octopus
Underwater Camera Maintenance
- Don't Melt Your Lens - Literally
Featured Artists & Inspiration
- Ten Amazing Photos from Friends of the Guide
- 10 Amazing Photos from Friends of the Guide
- Story Behind the Shot: Lion-mane Nudibranch
- Story Behind the Shot: Frozen Fjord
- Story Behind the Shot: Cave Reflection
- Story Behind the Shot: "Manta Madness"
- Bryde's Whale: Story Behind the Shot
- Experimenting with Color Strobe Gels
- Free Frogfishes Book: Interview with Teresa Zubi
- Incredible Photo Sequence "Eyes Bigger than the Stomach"
- Insight into Art: Amok Island
- Mating Blue-Ringed Octopus: Story Behind the Shot
- Rolling in the Deep: Komodo Macro
- Rolling in the Deep: Komodo Wide-Angle
- Story Behind the Shot "Angry Sepiola"
- 4 Photos with Matt Draper
- Diving in Italy: Interview with Pietro Formis
- Dugong Photos on a Single Breath
- Duncan Murrell: The Story of a Whaleman and his Kayak
- Made in Puget Sound
- May, 2020: A Month of AWESOME Content!
- Moments with a Humpback Mother & Calf
- Nudibranch Encounters Pygmy Squid: Story Behind the Shot
- Story Behind the Shot "Attention Seeker"
  - Celebrating Rajan the Swimming Elephant
  - Story Behind the Shot: Octopus Sunball
  - Surprise Encounter with Spawning Corals
- Story Behind the Shot: A Happy Bunch
- Story Behind the Shot: A Sad Catch
- Story Behind the Shot: Chew With Your Mouth Closed!
- Story Behind the Shot: Dolphin Formation
- Story Behind the Shot: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
- Story Behind the Shot: En Garde
- Story Behind the Shot: Love Between Scales
- Story Behind the Shot: Octopus Mother
- Story Behind the Shot: Swallows Cave
- Story Behind the Wave
- The Ocean Decade Exhibition
- Video: Diving a Nuclear Missile Silo
- Video: The Wrecks of Bell Island
- What's in the Camera Bag: Brook Peterson
- What's in the Camera Bag: Ken Kiefer
- What's in the Camera Bag: Mike Bartick
- What's in the Camera Bag: Ron Watkins
- What's in the Camera Bag: Serge Abourjeily
- Story Behind the Shot "Glaucus Atlanticus"
  - An Interview with PT Hirschfield
- Story Behind the Shot "Kirra Underwater"
- Story Behind the Shot "Lionfish Stares at its Lunch"
- Story Behind the Shot "Underwater Circus"
- Story Behind the Shot: "Shout"
- The Squid Eye: Story Behind the Shot
- Diving the Oil Rigs: An Interview with Milton Love
- Featured Artist: Joshua Lambus
- Featured Artist: Cynthia Hankins
- Featured Artist: Steve Rosenberg
- Featured Artist: Brandi E. Irwin Ultraviolet light
Photography Glossary
Alor Diving: What if Lembeh had a Raja?
Coral Seeding - Synergies in Technology and Application to Restore Coral Reefs in the Caribbean
How to Support the Maui Dive Community
Ocean Art Photo Competition
- 2016 Ocean Art Contest Winners
- 2015 Ocean Art Contest Winners
- 2014 Ocean Art Contest Winners
  - 2014 Ocean Art Photo Competition
    - Ocean Art Photo Competition: Rules, Judges, Categories, Prizes
- 2013 Ocean Art Contest Winners
  - 2013 Ocean Art Photo Competition
- 2011 Ocean Art Photo Contest Winners
- 2010 Ocean Art Photo Contest Winners
- 2018 Ocean Art Contest Winners
- 2019 Ocean Art Contest Winners
- 2020 Ocean Art Contest Winners
- 2021 Ocean Art Contest Winners
  - Ocean Art Photo Competition 2021 Judges Comments
- 2022 Ocean Art Contest Winners
  - Ocean Art 2022 - 1st Place Blackwater
- 2023 Ocean Art Contest Winners
- An Underwater Panorama - "The Ruby" by Nicolas Barraqué
- Ocean Art 2023 Photo Competition Judges Comments
- Ocean Art 2023 Winners Announced
- Ocean Art Media Coverage
- Ocean Art Photo Competition 2022 Judges Comments
Photography as a Tool for Nature Conservation
Safeguarding the Genetic Diversity of Bonaire’s Coral Reefs
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