Product Description

Discover the secrets of the world's best underwater photographers in 360 spectacular, image-filled pages in full color. Learn how you can shoot better underwater images thanks to technical tips and creative suggestions from the masters. Find out about rigorously field-tested digital and film techniques and u/w photo equipment, including lenses, strobes and camera systems. Unlock the hidden techniques which are behind imaginative framing and lighting to achieve new striking results. From 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, from blue-water encounters to colorful coral reef diving and muck critter hunting, from daily maintenance to the choice of the right lens--it's all here! A highly-readable, technically-accessible, step-by-step guide in eight chapters to the secrets and wonders of underwater photography. 360 color photos. YOUR UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AFTER READING THIS BOOK!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #334781 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-30
• 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. All the images are very well reproduced, which will not come as a surprise to anyone who owns any of the other books by the authors. (...) A "Diver's Guide to the Art of Underwater Photography" is a large format 360 page feast of fabulous images and thought provoking and enjoyable writing on taking pictures in the ocean." --Dr. Alex Mustard, Author of "Reefs Revealed" and "The Art of Diving,") wetpixel

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. 9 x 9 inches, 360 color photos. --Undercurrent, April 2008

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

About the Author
Andrea and Antonella Ferrari are world-famous underwater photographers and book authors. Their best-selling titles on marine life and u/w photography - which have been published in Italy, Great Britain, the USA, France, Germany, Spain, Holland, Mexico, Malaysia and Japan - include; "Malaysia Diving Guide;" (1997), "Malaysia - An Underwater Paradise;" (1998), "Reef Life;" (1999), "Sharks;" (2000), "Oceani Segreti;" (2004, World Grand Prize at the International Festival of the Underwater Image in Antibes); "A Diver's Guide to Underwater Malaysia Macrolife;" (2003) and "A Diver's Guide to Reef Life;" (2006). The home base of these world travellers is Italy.

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 amazing 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 book. It's like having your own personal tutor! Go on and buy it - this is something you'll treasure for many years to come.

Underwater Photography
Its a terrific book, fantastic pictures. Liked that you could get helpful hints for point and shoot UW cameras, not just the expensive ones. Only thing I didn't care for was that the commentaries were not continued on the next page - you had to go 2 or 3 pages for them to continue.

The Art Of Underwater Photography, Creative Techniques and Camera Systems for Digital and Film
Physical limitations now prevent me from diving, but I started young, very young! In fact, in the late 1940's by simply holding my breath and going as deep and as long as possible to see `nature' in areas along the east coast of North America and various areas in the Caribbean. And in the following decades when traveling to other global areas where the ocean was a short distance away, I always made time to explore the local depths. And even though I've never owned sophisticated diving equipment, or had the skill to photograph underwater creatures, those adventures brought much pleasure and an appreciation for the complexities in the underwater world. I've also been an aquarist for over 60 years, and have tried to duplicate nature in all my aquariums, whether they were freshwater or marine aquariums.

And in the past where certain world areas where not available to me, I depended upon the `icons' such as Jacques Cousteau and others to publish the results of their diving adventures so I could enjoy seeing the fruits of their underwater travels. Today is no different, and thank goodness there are people like Andrea & Antonella Ferrari! Their new book `The Art Of Underwater Photography' is a welcome addition to my library, and even though I cannot comment on its photography techniques and equipment, except to say it appears quite informative, I can say I'm impressed with their organization of the material and its artwork. Therefore, whether you're an armchair adventurer or diver, (even a past diver like myself), you'll enjoy slowly going through this massive 360 page book and viewing their and their co-contributors stunning contributions!
Bob Goemans