Product Description

This work features eight highly readable and innovative chapters about motivation, equipment, technique, mindframe, philosophy, artistic and media influences, camera models and brands, underwater housings, strobes, macrophotography, wide-angle images, portraits, topside dive interval photography and many, many other subjects. It is illustrated with a spectacular selection of some of the Ferrari's best shots of a lifetime plus exceptional image contributions by some of the world's best professional and gifted amateur (this is a first!) underwater photographers - including Doug Perrine, Charles Hood, John Scarlett, Alex Mustard, Eric Cheng, Tony Wu, Stephen Wong, Takako Uno, Alberto Luca Recchi and many, many others."A Divers Guide to the Art of Underwater Photography" strives to be completely different from other guides currently on the market, and features scores of spectacular images from some of the world's most influential professionals and also many extraordinarily gifted amateurs. Each photograph is extensively captioned illustrating technique, equipment used, location, creative choices and final results.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39971 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• 360 pages

Review
This book gives us a rare insight into the mindset, dedication and imagination involved in creating magnificent underwater images ... I sat down and read this enjoyable book from cover to cover. The lack of techno-talk makes it a very accessible method to improve your photography ... The images are some of the finest you will see in a guide to underwater photography. About half are the very best from the Ferrari s own collection, while uniquely the other half come from a cast of 21 guest photographers that includes the likes of Doug Perrine, Tony Wu, Eric Cheng, Charles Hood and Stephen Wong. --Alex Mustard (author of Reefs Revealed and The Art of Diving), Wetpixel

With an enviable reputation for authoring fine books on underwater photography, the Ferraris have laced the pages of their new book with juicy pictures (...) There is none of the pseudo-art talk that often ruins otherwise beautiful books of photographs. I read it from cover to cover, and it s a great read. The pictures do the talking, and need no talking-up. (...) This 360-page volume doesn t have a weak page in it. --John Bantin, Diver Magazine, April 2008

This book is filled with spectacular images, designed not only to offer great technical guidance, but also help the underwater photographer discover and develop the artist within. Clearly the best and most beautiful 'how-to" book ever produced. Rigorously field-tested digital techniques; the hidden techniques behind imaginative framing and lighting, wide-angle and fish-eye to macro photography, from fish portraits to above/below split images, from basic point-and-shoot digital pocket cameras to complex housed professional DSLR systems, it's all here in a highly-readable, technically-accessible, step-by-step guide. --Undercurrent, April 2008

Customer Reviews

The Art of Underwater Photography
This is truly an amazing book, featuring 360 richly illustrated color pages with hundreds of incredible full-page underwater images (most by the authors and several by the world's best underwater photographers, like Doug Perrine), plus informative, wonderfully accessible texts. Be aware this really isn't a technical, dry, boring guide in the strictest sense of the word like most of the others available on the market. It's rather more of a highly inspirational book which begs to be read and re-read again to find creative inspiration, to bring out the inner hidden artist. I loved the photos and highly enjoyed the clever suggestions in the text - and I can already see how my own underwater photography has incredibly been enriched by this volume. It's like having your own personal tutor! This is a book I'll treasure for many years to come.

Worth It
When buying reference books I always buy in twos that way I can compare content (like having two teachers for the same subject). I found this one useful although I was expecting something a bit more technical. Doesn't mean there's anything wrong with it. The shape of the book is a bit akward for my bookshelf.

Consider this book as well for a bit more technical stuff.
The Underwater Photographer