This book is an absolutely essential guide for those who want to shoot beautiful digital pictures underwater. The complete “How to” guide with detailed descriptions and professional secrets, explanations about using digital cameras underwater, exposure, use of light and shooting techniques for macro and wide-angle imagery. Packed with information, key points, tips and techniques, and professional secrets, it includes; Digital Essentials, Shooting Digital Underwater, Art of Underwater Photography, The Digital Darkroom, Beyond the Basics.
An Essential Guide to Digital Underwater Photography takes you from the basics, channels your creativity to greater heights and guides you to produce some of the most beautiful pictures of the sea. It will also help you to learn the art form of photography and master the vocabulary of digital imaging. Above all this book will open your eyes to the enjoyment of digital underwater photography increasing the fun factor of your diving. It is a complete digital "How To" guide. An important new title for underwater photographers. All pages are color coded for quick reference.
For aspiring underwater photographers the road to success is littered with obstacles. Surfacing from a promising dive, we are faced with photographs of a blurred buddy, a fish giving us the arse or a blast of backscatter sneering back at us. Despite the desire to capture the magical moments we are privy to each time we submerge ourselves in the ocean, for most, underwater photography is nothing but a cruel joke.
That is until Michael Aw and Mathieu Meur came together to reveal the secrets of their success in producing this complete how-to guide to underwater digital photography. The guide includes well thought-out modules, tutorials, tips and hints on topics such as exposure, light manipulation, shooting techniques, macro and wide angle imagery, color correction, file management and most importantly what to do in that moment of terror when water gurgles into your camera!
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