What's New in the Underwater Photography Guide?
March 2010
- Exclusive! First 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