Underwater Photography for Compact Camera Users

This is a step-by-step guide to taking professional quality underwater photos with a point-and-shoot camera.
Modern compact cameras are capable of capturing fantastic underwater images – and this book shows you how. Easy-to-follow techniques are accompanied by hundreds of photographs that show you how it is done and the results you can achieve.
There is advice for both beginners and more advanced compact camera users, covering topics such as what camera to buy and how to look after it, how to master settings for different cameras and how to compose great underwater photographs.
Perfect for divers and snorkelers, this book will take your photography to a new level.

Table of Contents

Introduction to underwater photography

Understanding your camera's main settings

Exploring your camera's menu settings

Different accessories for your compact

Lighting your subject underwater

Natural light photography - ideal for snorkelling

Underwater photography in temperate waters

Composing a great underwater photograph

Downloading & storing your images

Practise, practise, practise

Guest gallery

Glossary

Index

Maria Munn is a multi award-winning underwater photographer and award-winning author. She is deeply passionate about conservation and hopes to bring a better understanding of the marine environment through her photography. She is a highly experienced teacher, helping thousands of photography students across the globe to improve their skills, and even win awards.
Maria has a Licenciateship with the Royal Photographic Society, won BSAC's Travel Photographer of the Year (2008) and has won a Bronze Medal with Underwater Photography's Annual Competition (2010), as well as being a Runner-Up (2011) and short-listed (2012) with two of her photos. One of her photographs, taken with a compact camera (no external lenses or strobes), was voted into the finals of 2013's Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
Since launching PADI's Digital Underwater Photography Speciality at the London Dive Show in 2006, she has continued to be the leader in teaching underwater photography using compact cameras.