What's New in the Underwater Photography Guide?

June 2010

• Sigma 8-16mm lens review
• New forums!
• Olympus E-PL1 Review
• Lots of new articles - check out the home page 
• Best underwater settings for the Canon S90 & G11

May 2010

• Dive adventure column: Lesson's Learned in cavern diving
• Dive travel column: Two of the best shark dives
• Underwater Photography Destination: Diving Marsa Shagra, Red Sea, Egypt
• Whaling ban in danger - what you can do
• Shooter's ToolBox - learning wide-angle photography, part 1

April 2010 

• Article - Two of the Best Shark Diving Destinations
• How to photograph Jellyfish, Salps and Pelagic Invertebrates
• Nexus Underwater Housings
• Blue-ringed Octopus - facts, dive sites, underwater photo tips
• Dive Travel Article - Timing is Everything
• Equipment Advice - How to choose the right arms and clamps
• News - new Nocturnal dive/focus light announced
• News- new Nexus dome ports available
• Featured Blogger - Vincent Kneefel, Underwater Photography

March 2010

• Launched! Dive Destination Guide for Underwater Photographers
• Tutorial - Best tips for achieving fast focus underwater
• Blue Water Diving tips and techniques
• Guide to Diving Milford Sound, New Zealand
• Tutorial - finding the right underwater compositon
• Canon S90 - sample wide-angle and macro underwater photos
• Exclusive! First published photos of a Pacific Seahorse in California
• Guide to diving Kona, Hawaii
• Aquatica Canon 7D Underwater Housing Review
• Guide to diving Truk Lagoon

February 2010

• Instructional video tutorials (very cool!)
• Wonderpus Octopus
• Diving Antarctica
• Getting a great Bokeh Effect
• Shooting macro behind a dome port
• Diving the Socorro Islands
• Kelden Luna 8 video light review
• Underwater video tips

January 2010

• Diving Cozumel
• Diving Cocos islands
• Guide to Inon Wet Lenses
• Canon S90 FIX Housing Review
• Underwater camera modes for compact cameras
• Review of Panasonic Lumix LX3 and 10bar housing 
• Canon S90 Underwater housings
• Sea & Sea YS-110 review

• Underwater Photography Basics              Everything for the new photographer
• Rapid Bay Jetty, Adelaide, Australia         Great dive site in Australia!
• Diving Siladen, Sulawesi                         Unknown Gem near Bunaken
• Muck diving locations                            Including places you didn't know about!
• Frogfish                                                  Master of camouflage and ambush
• Black Sea Bass                                         Gentle giants of California waters
• Giant Kelp Forests                                   Beautiful forests under the sea

December 2009 

• Leafy Sea Dragon -    photography, behavior, locations
• Guide to California Marine Life
• Underwater photography basics
• Guide to Fish Photography
• Nikon 18-55mm lens review

November 2009 

• Using your compact camera underwater - tips and differences from a dSLR
• Inon Z240 review expanded with Inon Z240 settings and type 1-4 differences
• Catalina island underwater photography and best dive sites
• Added more info to the lens basics page
• Channel islands underwater photography and dive sites
• Nudibranch and sea slug photography tips

October 2009

• Sea & Sea dome port pool tests - glass, compact and fisheye dome ports
• Overview of fisheye lenses versus regular rectiliear wide-angle lenses
• In-depth article on the Bobbit worm, Eunice aphroditois

July 2009

• Complete Anilao diving report with photos, logistics and best dive sites
• Complete Bunaken island diving report with photos, logistics and best dive sites
• Complete Lembeh straits diving report with photos, logistics and best dive sites

June 2009

• Article on getting great color in your underwater photos
• Adding a section on common causes of underwater camera floods
• How to prevent your camera from fogging underwater
• Complete Bali report with photos, logistics and best dive sites

May 2009

• Minimum focus distances added to the best dSLR underwater lens charts for Nikon and Canon
• Complete macro critter list for muck dives in the indo-pacific area
• StrobeChart added, showing underwater strobe features for different models
• Cal Mero wrote a guide to photographing models underwater in a pool. This is a great tutorial covering lighting, model selection, tips and compostion.
• We have a new section on natural light underwater photography, featuring photographs from Carol Yin. This tutorial emphasizes how to take wide-angle photographs near the surface.
• New tutorial on over-under & split photos, featuring work by Michel Lonfat and Kelly Bracken.

April 25th 2009

• Added a new underwater photography blog with stories about the Bobbit worm, focusing in low light, and camera settings, along with an RSS feed
• Added a facebook group page - I hope you join it!
• Added additional info to the camera and lens basics page, a must read for all beginners

April 10th 2009

• Added 4 new positions to the strobe position diagrams page, for a total of 10 strobe positions
• Review page for housings, lenses, strobes & diopters. S&S D300 housing, Subsee diopter, nikon 105mm lens, Inon Z40 strobe reviews are up.
• Sharpness and diffractions tests on the nikon 105mm VR lens
• Review of the SubSee adapter and +10 diopter for supermacro
• Examples showing effects of shutter-speed on background lighting underwater
• Examples showing depth of field at different apertures

March 2009

• Learning the basics - zooms, primes, focal length, defining macro and wide-angle
  
• Choosing between a 60mm and a 100mm or 105mm macro lens for underwater
  
• Getting good blue water in underwater photos - what affects the blue color?
• Shooting over-under shots underwater - technique, tips and examples (with some photos by Michel Lonfat)
• Preventing hot spots in underwater photography