Underwater Photography: Wide Angle

Learn to capture sweeping underwater vistas with this deep dive into wide-angle underwater photography.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. What Is Wide Angle?

• Wide-angle underwater
• Wide-angle optics
• Wide-angle etiquette

2. Exposure

• 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

3. Lighting

• 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

4. Composition

• Bull's-eye or center frame
• The golden spiral
• The golden ratio

5. Special Techniques

• Advanced wide angle
• Exposing the sun
• Shooting sunballs
• Capturing rays of sunlight
• Shooting over-unders
• Close-focus wide angle

6. Post Processing

• 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

Conclusion

• Next steps