Underwater Photography

As ALEX MUSTARD points out, you don’t see the sort of images that appear on this spread too often in magazines such as DIVER

In last month’s column on producing photos of contest-winning standard, ALEX MUSTARD looked at schools of fish.

It’s drummed into us to get close to our subjects, but all that goes out of the window when it comes to photographing

This month marks a significant landmark, as ALEX MUSTARD  presents the 60th in this series on taking potentially prize-winning

A British WW2 BSA M20 motorbike on the upper deck, port side of the Thistlegorm’s hold 2, is backlit with two strobes.

The best formations in cave systems such as the cenotes of mexico’s yucatan tend to be a little deeper inside, where it’s dark.

A British WW2 BSA M20 motorbike on the upper deck, port side of the Thistlegorm’s hold 2, is backlit with two strobes.

Underwater photographers continue their unending quest for the perfect shot – so how close did the BSoUP Prints competitors get?

Underwater photographers continue their unending quest for the perfect shot – so how close did the BSoUP Prints competitors get?

PHOTO DIVER Sewage Surfer Sets Sustainability Tone THE FIRST WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER of the Year 2017 finalist images were revealed in September ahead of the announcement

Peter Scoones, who died three years ago, was a celebrated wildlife cameraman, but many feel that the extent

Whether you’re a qualified cave-diver or simply enjoy caverns, getting good photos in a dark environment such as the cenotes

A BRITISH WW2 BSA M20 motorbike on the upper deck, port side of the Thistlegorm’s hold 2, is backlit with two strobes. As I explained

It’s the sixth year of the Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition but only the second in which there

WE BROUGHT YOU FOUR of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017 diving-related finalist images in last month’s issue, and

It’s an experience unlike any other in scuba-diving, and needs to be reflected in your photography in all its vertical

NIGEL WADE was DIVER’s Technical Editor and equipment tester until his tragic death from a heart attack earlier this year.

As ALEX MUSTARD points out, you don’t see the sort of images that appear on this spread too often in

In last month”s column on producing photos of contest-winning standard, ALEX MUSTARD looked at schools of fish. Tiny anthias can

It’s drummed into us to get close to our subjects, but all that goes out of the window when it

THE NORTHERN UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP held its second annual Print Competition at the Great Northern Dive Show in Manchester in

This month marks a significant landmark, as ALEX MUSTARD presents the 60th in this series on taking potentially prize-winning underwater

They are the sort of underwater photographs that will make many of us feel like giving up, and they keep

The double-exposure was a sensation when it burst into underwater photo contests back in the 1980s, but had gone out

It’s clean-up time – continuing his long-running series on finding ways to take prize-winning photos, this month ALEX MUSTARD considers

How can you take memorable photos and be a good dive-buddy? The fashionable art of snoot-shooting has led HENLEY SPIERS

Finding out how competitive photographers go about their work, and how judges go about rating their efforts can be very

Last month ALEX MUSTARD looked at how and when to use a monochrome approach while shooting under water, but when

The British Society of Underwater Photographers, better known as BSoUP, was one of the first underwater photographic societies in the

This month we look back at 50 years of the British Society of Underwater Photographers, but where does the society

In January ALEX MUSTARD considered the ‘new black’ for underwater photographers – it’s black, by the way – and he

Never mind ‘The New Black’, underwater photographers are happy to stick with ‘Black is Black’, because you can’t beat it

Success at any cost? Some underwater photographers will stop at nothing to obtain that winning shot, and as a result

‘There is good bokeh, bad bokeh and much debate about which lenses have which!’
New photographers may sometimes be surprised to

Still in ‘rules are made to be broken’ mode this month, ALEX MUSTARD stops to look at the bigger picture

STUART WESTMORELAND wrote PADI’s Fluorescence Night Diver distinctive speciality course, and he reckons there’s far more to fluo-diving than wow-factor

Rules is rules – but don’t be ruled by them. That’s ALEX MUSTARD’s message this month, because ultimately even if

Mastering colour is ALEX MUSTARD’s subject this month – there’s no need to become obsessive about it, he says, because

You don’t need your audience to be wearing funny glasses for your images to appear three-dimensional, says ALEX MUSTARD –

THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHERS (BSoUP) holds its Beginners Portfolio competition towards the end of each year.

The latest narrow-beam LED torches, like Inon’s LF800, are specifically designed for photography. They are easiest to use when aimed

THE OCEAN ART UNDERWATER PHOTO COMPETITION is organised each year by the influential online Underwater Photography Guide, and its recently

A French diver is using a new artform to explore the underwater world from his computer – and reckons there are no limits to ways