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.

Improve your underwater photography through visualization and learning to be more proactive than reactive.
By Mike Bartick

Visualization to Realization

Mike Bartick
Improve your underwater photography through visualization and learning to be more proactive than reactive.

Visualization to Realization

Improve your underwater photography through visualization and learning to be more proactive than reactive

By Mike Bartick

 

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Use pool photography to hone your underwater photography skills, experiment and be creative!
By Ron Watkins

Underwater Pool Photography

Underwater Pool Photography
Ron Watkins
Use pool photography to hone your underwater photography skills, experiment and be creative!

How often do you get the opportunity to go diving and do underwater photography? If you're like me and live in a land-locked state or country, probably not as often as you'd like. When you've finally saved up enough vacation days and splurged for that long-awaited trip, you often spend the first part of it relearning your underwater photography equipment and skills. By the end of the trip you are finally getting some great shots and then it's time to pack up your bags and head back home.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ron Watkins is an international award winning photographer and writer. He has been passionate about underwater photography since 1996 and his photography has appeared in magazines, websites, juried art displays, national aquariums, libraries and private collections.

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Part II in a series: How to get a perfect wide-angle shot
By Victor Tang

Wide-Angle Shots Underwater with Canon G12

Taking Wide-Angle Shots Underwater With The Canon G12
Victor Tang
Part II in a series: How to get a perfect wide-angle shot

Underwater photography can be generally classified under two categories: wide-angle and macro. The primary difference between the two is the field of view (FOV) of the image, namely the extent of the observable environment at a given moment. In macro photography the subject tends to be small, so a relatively small FOV is desirable to concentrate on your subject.

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Part I in a series about the Canon G12 compact camera: How to get a perfect macro shot
By Victor Tang

Taking Macro Shots Underwater with the Canon G12

Taking Macro Shots Underwater with the Canon G12
Victor Tang
Part I in a series about the Canon G12 compact camera: How to get a perfect macro shot

Since the introduction of the Canon Powershot G9 and it's associated underwater housing the WP-DC21, the G series of cameras have fast become the compact of choice for many scuba enthusiasts seeking their first foray into underwater photography. With it's affordability, excellent image quality and great ergonomics that allow an exceptional amount of manual control, many first time buyers find the G series a great learning platform before graduating to DSLRs.

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This guide offers tips, tricks and instruction on how to take underwater photos with diagonal composition
By Scott Gietler

Diagonal Underwater Composition

Scott Gietler
This guide offers tips, tricks and instruction on how to take underwater photos with diagonal composition

Diagonal Underwater Composition

Part II in a series on composition: tips and tricks on how to take the perfect diagonal shot

by Scott Gietler

 

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Awesome photographic opportunities sometimes present themselves unexpectedly. Best be prepared by using your Instant Recall Modes!
By Michael Zeigler

Utilizing Instant Recall Modes on your dSLR

Michael Zeigler
Awesome photographic opportunities sometimes present themselves unexpectedly. Best be prepared by using your Instant Recall Modes!

Take Advantage of Instant Recall Modes

Be prepared for that unexpected opportunity by programming your dSLR mode dial

By Michael Zeigler

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Todd explains how to keep digital images and videos safe through backup hard drive storage.
By Todd Winner

Keeping Your Digital Images Safe

Todd Winner
Todd explains how to keep digital images and videos safe through backup hard drive storage.

Keeping Your Digital Images Safe

Learn how to protect your digital photographs by backing them up on an external hard drive

by Todd Winner

 

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Another great approach to your underwater composition. This is the first part in a series on underwater composition.
By Scott Gietler

Face-on Composition

Scott Gietler
Another great approach to your underwater composition. This is the first part in a series on underwater composition.

Face-on Underwater Composition

Part I in a series on underwater photography composition

By Scott Gietler

 

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Guide to shooting underwater video with the Canon 7D or Canon T2i including settings, focusing and white balance
By Todd Winner

Guide to underwater video with the Canon 7D

Todd Winner
Guide to shooting underwater video with the Canon 7D or Canon T2i including settings, focusing and white balance

Guide to Shooting Underwater Video with Canon 7D

Exposure, settings, white balance and focusing tips

by Todd Winner

 

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Learn some photo tips that can help you get some incredible underwater behavior photos on your next trip.
By Scott Gietler

Photographing Behavior Underwater

Scott Gietler
Learn some photo tips that can help you get some incredible underwater behavior photos on your next trip.


One of my favorite underwater past times is trying to photograph marine life behavior. In this article I show some examples of my favorite behavior photos, and some tips that I've learned over the years in getting these kinds of shots. Everyone has their own methods, so I hope you share some of yours too!

 

 

 

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