How to take a wonderful photo under water

(1) Make yourself comfortable

Successful water scuba diving and underwater photography is the most important thing is to find a comfortable environment. Don't forget to take the camera shooting is a floating platform, a good swimming skills are necessary, sometimes in order to capture objects to swim very fast. The breathing tube, with a shot of benefits is that you can stay for a long time, dive deeper and closer to the sea creatures. To want to take scuba in underwater photography, you must always in control of your own position, not floating. Said, most of my successful photo shooting or in the upper layer, where light is sufficient, and can take to the big guy, like whales and sharks.

(2) Understanding of underwater life

A good photo shoot, you must know your subject and to seize the key. This in underwater photography is very important. What you can get close to? Is there danger? Understand the mode of action of fish, you can take wonderful pictures. Study their swimming patterns and other details. How to learn these, how near they? Sharks pectoral fins where? It is offensive?

(3) Choose the right camera

There are two basic points is really a different choice, water in the box with the underwater camera card and peripheral flash SLR cameras, as shown in the picture. There are some points of the first system, easy to use (no complicated settings) is still relatively cheap. A machine is also suitable for the phase in the upper shoot there are a lot of light. But the main disadvantage of this system is that the photographer can't handle the face of light, this is because most cases face light flash on the camera. The resulting integrated and manual exposure is also difficult to achieve. Most professional photographers use SLR cameras, because they can complete the operating system. According to site condition and your desired effect to set the aperture and shutter, such as the effect of rapid movement. You can also make flash from different angles. Has its drawbacks as well as SLR cameras, of course, is very heavy, easy to carry, and very expensive.

(4) To be familiar with the main settings

There are several basic settings to help you take better underwater photos. Such settings are fast camera in the water not effective. White balance: most of the white balance set to daylight mode, especially in the case of the use of flash, ISO: keep your ISO in the range of 100 to 200 more. The high setting in most cases in the "noise", aperture: depending on your work in deep waters, most of the time can be set to F8 and F16, which will provide enough depth. The shutter: the right combination to some manually set the aperture and shutter in bring the correct exposure. I tend to view the shutter as a creative tool, if I want my object sharper and still, I will set the shutter higher: 1/125 seconds or 1/250 seconds. If I want to express or capture sports, such as swimming in fish, 1/15 seconds or more slowly Speed is a good choice. Focus: I tend to set auto focus and a single point of focus can be automatically aligned to the focal length. This mode, as long as you hold down the shutter, can maintain the focal length of the alignment of the state, even if the re select picture.

(5) You can be practiced in the swimming pool now

Before going to the sea, you can practice in the pool, there is a safe and controlled environment, and you can learn to set, experimenting with new technologies to ensure that your machine is in good condition. And a member of the family practice together, especially children, they often fidgeting like a swimming fish.

(6) Using existing light sources

Double light lamp cannot solve all the problems, he will produce great photos, but remember this is not the only choice, if your camera card play very good, also can produce incredible photos. Correct exposure is very important, if you want to show interesting contour and lower gear exposure compensation, if you want to water intake of solidification of light, using 1 / 250 seconds shutter or higher.

(7) Learning to use the principle of composition

Underwater photography is photography, but also for the same rules, just because you shot in the water so no method to ensure that the film is very good, good photos not shoot out, is created. Learning then contact the composition principles, including the third principle, frame principle, the line of sight guidance principle, principle of movement and so on, the full use of them to shoot to.