Archive for the 'Photo & Video Articles' Category

After the Basic Underwater Photo Course

What Do I Do Now? If you’ve already done the basic photo class, where do you go and what do you do now, other than go out and dive, dive, dive. After the first introductory photo course, there are other basic and more advanced or specialized classes available. These cover the range from locally taught [...]

Buoyancy Control for Underwater Photography

Good buoyancy control for photography underwater isn’t just being able to get to the bottom without crashing into the reef or getting back to the surface without violating your computer. It’s about real, fine-tuned control and awareness of your position in the water column in relation to everything else around you, as well as your [...]

Why Is Choosing Your Underwater Housing Important?

by Chris Kovaz Every time I go diving on a boat, I always get a remark, “What is that thing?” The “thing” the diver is referring to is my underwater camera housing. After I explain what it is and tell him/her how much it costs, they think I am completely insane. Underwater camera housings can [...]

The Tech Photographer

by Pete Nawrocky Many of today’s divers are engaged in “technical” diving. Simply stated, “any dive in which a diver cannot surface immediately and directly to the surface, is performing a tech dive.” However, most of the time “tech” diving is looked upon as dives requiring gas mixtures other than air or dives that require [...]

UW Photo/Video Articles…Contribute Your Own!

Click Here to Submit Your Own Photo or Video Article! Articles in this section are geared toward the underwater photography and use of videos while diving, but can provide useful information to every diver. Articles about training, how to, reef dives, etc. are just a few of the many topics that can be found in [...]