Learn to capture sweeping underwater vistas with this deep dive into wide-angle underwater photography.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Wide-angle underwater
- Wide-angle optics
- Wide-angle etiquette
- In-camera histograms
- Strobes and the red channel
- Shutter speed and the blue channel
- Aperture and the RGB channels
- Blending or contrasting the exposure
- ISO and the RGB channels
- Strobe distance rule
- Getting closer
- Avoiding backscatter
- Feathering the light
- Lighting from above
- Lighting a vertical shot
- Shooting on a wall
- Shooting on a slope
- Shooting with a single strobe
- Using a strobe diffuser
- White balance for strobes
- Bull's-eye or center frame
- The golden spiral
- The golden ratio
- Advanced wide angle
- Exposing the sun
- Shooting sunballs
- Capturing rays of sunlight
- Shooting over-unders
- Close-focus wide angle
- Setting up your Lightroom workspaces
- Exposure and contrast in an underwater photo
- White balance and color in an underwater photo
- Advanced tools for developing underwater photos
- Next steps
Taught by
Deke McClelland and Hergen Spalink
