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52 Assignments: Underwater Photography is a year’s worth of inspiring weekly assignments to kick-start your creativity.
This collection of photographic workshop assignments is designed to build core skills, expand horizons and kickstart creativity. The book takes readers on an underwater adventure with assignments designed to teach valuable lessons and produce stunning images. It has a year's worth of weekly challenges and concepts for conceiving and composing powerful, dynamic underwater photographs and videos. Complete the assignments weekly over a year, or dip in every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to underwater photography.
Full of technical advice and professional tips, the book includes space for readers to add their own notes, lists and tech specs, allowing them to create a unique journal to record the journey they have made with their imagination.
Assignments include:
- Silhouettes
- Macro backlight
- Reflections
"A perfect book for photographers who want to create breath-taking photos of underwater vistas, 52 Assignments: Underwater Photography is a valuable guide. Mustard, widely regarded as one of the world’s leading underwater photographers, has presented 52 assignments to guide you to capturing unique photographs under the sea. . Not simply a book about methods, this is one where you'll find a series of ideas, exercises, gadgets, and even gear that will build the skills of a beginner photographer and expand the skills of those with more experience."—Photographic Society of America Journal
"...accompanied by solid but not overly technical advice, with space for notes...full of inspirational Alex Mustard shots, tips, panels and the sort of direct writing that ensures his advice lands...For most underwater photographers serious about self-improvement, simply reading through this book will be an enjoyable process that leaves them with plenty of ideas to take on their next trip."—Divernet
“This book is going to be popular with both those just starting out in underwater photography and seasoned pros alike. The book breaks the mould of traditional underwater photography guides. Gone are the sometimes daunting, long chapters on techniques, settings and equipment. This offers a much more accessible and refreshing approach. Simple, useful, practical skills to try whatever camera you are taking on your dive."—Scubaverse
"This latest book is written by Alex Mustard, a celebrated underwater photographer and the author of the Ammonite Press book, Underwater Photography Masterclass (2016). This isn’t a book to simply read, it is a book for those who really want to develop skills and improve. It is intended that you read an assignment and then get in the water and work on it. Each of these assignments will allow you to build a broad base of skills and experience across a diversity of genres...Alex has plenty of ideas for novices to, and veterans of, underwater photography."—Underwater Photography Magazine
"[Alex Mustard] is recognised as one of the world's leading underwater photographers for decades he’s taught and motivated people to capture their own underwater works of art...This handbook collates some of these gems of wisdom into a concise, practical guide. This workbook is designed to encourage resourcefulness and imagination...the book encourages you to explore, learn and master. Over time this will allow you to build up a diverse portfolio of photographs as you expand the depth and breadth of your work. Overall, 52 Assignments - Underwater Photography is a valuable guidebook to inspire your creativity.”—DIVE
Available Light Fantastic 8
Float Like A Jelly 10
Earn That Angle 12
Shoot From The Hip 14
Subject Not Scene 16
One Strobe Macro 18
Color Combos 20
Silhouettes 24
Black & White Wrecks 26
Verticals On The Sand 28
Wide Angle Blues 30
Bossing Depth Of Field 32
Natural Patterns 34
Bang With Black 36
Wide Angle Macro 38
Vintage Lenses 40
Circular Fisheye 44
Splits Without A Mask 46
Surface Reflections 48
Snell’s Window 50
Missing The Bullseye 52
Mandarinfish 54
Blackwater 56
Sumptuous Sunbursts 58
Beam Me Up 62
In The Spotlight 64
Snoot With Movement 66
Simple Is Strong 68
Go Super 70
Work With A Guide 72
Small In The Frame 74
Work The Background 76
Off-Camera Strobe 78
Full Color Wreck 80
Pose A Model 82
Light A Model 86
Double Eye Contact 88
Macro Backlight 90
Wide Angle Fluorescence 92
Pan-tastic 94
Digital Doubles 96
Zoom Blur 100
High-Speed Synch 102
Sunset Splits 104
Panoramas 106
Photogrammetry 110
Macro Flashlight 112
Decisive Moment 114
Wrong Lens 116
Cover Shot 118
Tell A Story 120
Recipe For Success 122