Winning Images with Any Underwater Camera
The Essential Guide to Creating Engaging Photos
Published on 30. May 2014
224 pages
978-1-909455-09-2 (ISBN)
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A supremely cost-effective tool for improving underwater photography.
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Paul Colley
Winning Images with Any Underwater Camera
The Essential Guide to Creating Engaging Photos
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05/2014
Dived Up Publications
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright and publication details
- Table of Contents
- Foreword by Dr Alexander Mustard
- About the author and acknowledgements
- How to use this book
- Introduction
- List of figures
- Composition
- The Big Picture and Why Composition Matters: Aesthetics and Photographic Intent
- What makes a good picture?
- Searching for kingfisher moments
- Elements of photographic design
- Subject Selection: The Right Things in the Right Frame at the Right Time
- Before you dive
- Observation: interacting thoughtfully with the environment
- Skittish subjects
- Visualising your image?-?getting into the zone
- Capitalising on chance opportunities
- Exploiting the full potential of a subject
- Light
- Why light dominates photography
- Properties of light
- Natural light
- Artificial light
- Balanced light
- Viewpoint
- Angle
- Viewfinder
- Eyes
- Distortion
- Image Depth Perspective
- Background fish
- Background diver
- Layers everywhere
- Head-on
- Wrecks
- Background and Space
- Boats
- Contrast
- Context
- Space
- Lines, Shapes and Vectors: Real and Perceived
- Gestalt perception
- Graphic elements
- Contrasts
- Light and dark
- Potential underwater contrasts
- Colour
- Colour systems
- Colour spaces
- Combining colour in composition
- Greyscale
- Organising the Whole Picture
- Reference frames
- Organization of objects within an image: position and balance
- Composition techniques
- Visual weight and balance
- Closing thoughts
- Easy-to-remember reference models for underwater composition
- The Reference Models
- 1: Shipwreck in colour
- 2: Shipwreck in monochrome
- 3: Silhouette
- 4: Fish school
- 5: Frame within a frame
- 6: Coral reef at dusk
- 7: Big animal
- 8: Frame-filling subject
- 9: Character and behaviour
- 10: Movement
- 11: Reflections
- 12: Forced perspective
- Advanced techniques to improve your composition
- Understanding Dynamic Range
- Sensors and pixels
- Indications and adjustments
- Natural Light Photography
- The necessary minimum theory
- In practice
- Sunbeams
- Advantages and disadvantages
- Caves and swim-throughs
- Remote Lighting Techniques
- Basic equipment
- Typical opportunities
- Split Level Images
- Composition and image format
- Subject selection and other aspects of composition
- Optimum conditions and equipment
- Managing the dome, aperture, shutter and ISO
- Selected techniques: the importance of the horizon and managing the dynamic range
- Post-processing
- Post-production techniques to fine tune your composition
- Rescuing Composition Errors and Enhancing Good Composition
- Example work flow
- Image Manipulation
- Making selections
- Layers and blending
- Masks
- Demonstration projects
- Glossary
- Index
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