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Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1: Introduction to Underwater Photography

1.1 Essentials of a Good Underwater Photographer

1.2 The Effects of Light Underwater

1.3 Choosing a Compact Camera for Underwater Use

1.4 How Many Megapixels Do I Need?

1.5 Essential Accessories for Your Compact

1.6 Travelling With Your Compact Camera

1.7 Caring for Your Equipment Before and After a Dive

Chapter 2: Understanding Your Cameras Main Settings

2.1 Getting Started - Choosing The Correct Set-Up Options

2.2 Automatic Underwater Mode

2.3 Programme Mode

2.4 Understanding Aperture Settings

2.5 Understanding Shutter Speed Settings

2.6 Understanding Manual Mode

Chapter 3: Exploring Your Cameras Menu Settings

3.1 Autofocus -v- Manual Focus

3.2 Continuous Shooting

3.3 Custom Settings

3.4 Dynamic Range

3.5 Exposure Bracketing

3.6 Film Speed / ISO

3.7 Flash Exposure Compensation

3.8 Image Stabilisation Mode

3.9 Infinity Mode

3.10 Metering Modes

3.11 Noise

3.12 Optical Zoom -v- Digital Zoom

3.13 RAW -v- JPEG

3.14 Rear Curtain Synchronisation or Slow Sync Speed

3.15 Shooting with Colour Options

3.16 Understanding the Exposure Compensation Tool (EV+/EV)

3.17 Using the Built-In Flash With Your Camera

3.18 Using the LCD Screen -v- the Viewfinder

3.19 Using the Video Mode Underwater

3.20 Using Your Cameras White Balance Settings Underwater

Chapter 4: Choosing Different Accessories for Your Compact

4.1 Choosing a Lens

4.2 Using a Close-Up Lens

4.3 Wide-Angle Lenses

4.4 Using a Fisheye Lens

4.5 Filters for Fabulous Underwater Colours

4.6 Using a Focus or Modelling Light

Chapter 5: Lighting Your Subject Underwater

5.1 Introduction to Underwater Lighting

5.2 Considerations When Buying a Strobe

5.3 Arms and Trays for Your Strobe

5.4 Tricks and Tips Before Using Your Strobe

5.5 What is Backscatter?

5.6 One Strobe or Two

5.7 Using a Strobe to Capture Macro Subjects

5.8 Strobes for Wide-Angle Scenes

Chapter 6: Natural Light Photography Ideal for Snorkelling

6.1 Natural Light Photography Ideal for Snorkelling

Chapter 7: Underwater Photography in Temperate Waters

7.1 Underwater Photography in Temperate Waters

Chapter 8: Composing a Great Underwater Photograph

8.1 Abstracts

8.2 Camouflage

8.3 Caves

8.4 Close-Focus Wide-Angle Photographs

8.5 Contrasting Colours Underwater

8.6 Photographing Divers

8.7 Eye-to-Eye Contact

8.8 Fast Moving Subjects

8.9 Fish Behaviour and Interaction

8.10 Fish Portraits

8.11 Landscape or Portrait Shots

8.12 Leading/Diagonal Lines

8.13 Which Way Should Your Subject Go?

8.14 Looking Up or Down on a Subject?

8.15 Photographing Macro Subjects

8.16 Night Dives

8.17 Reflections

8.18 Rule of Thirds

8.19 Same Photo, Different Idea

8.20 Schooling Fish

8.21 Shapes

8.22 Sharks

8.23 Silhouettes

8.24 Split-Level Shots

8.25 Wide-Angle Reef Scenes

8.26 Photographing Wreck Scenes

Chapter 9: Downloading and Storing Your Images

9.1 Downloading and Storing Your Images

Chapter 10: Practise, Practise, Practise

10.1 Practise, Practise, Practise

Chapter 11: Guest Gallery

11.1 Guest Gallery

Notes

Resources

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Glossary

Index

This edition first published 2012

2012 Maria Munn

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Munn, Maria.

Underwater photography for compact camera users : a step-by-step guide to taking professional quality photos with a point-and-shoot camera / Maria Munn.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-118-34555-9 (pbk.)

Underwater photography. I. Title.

TR800.M86 2012

778.73dc23

2012009801

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