Marine life portraits are a great addition to any underwater photo portfolio. Like portraits on land, underwater portraits convey a sense of the subject’s personality. They also highly unique features of the subject, from eyes to colors to appendages like a frogfish’s lure or a shark’s teeth.
Underwater marine life portraits can be shot with a macro or wide-angle lens using a compact, mirrorless or DSLR camera. Shooting a nice portrait requires excellent composition and lighting skills, which are discussed and made easy in the portrait tutorials below.
Top 10 Tips for Amazing Portraits
How to Improve your Fish Portraits
Shooting Great Portraits of Sharks
If there’s something you want to learn about shooting portraits that is not in the tutorials above, email me at brent@uwphotographyguide.com and we’ll get an article up on the site. Enjoy!
