52 Assignments
Underwater Photography
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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 and reflections.
About this Author
Dr Alexander Mustard MBE, has been widely regarded as one of the world's leading underwater photographers for the last 20 years. He has pioneered many techniques within underwater photography, which he shares through magazine articles, talks and workshops. His photographs have won many awards including, on five occasions, the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year. He has also won multiple categories in the British Wildlife Photography Awards. In 2013, Alex was named GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Yearfor his image Night Moves. He has a PhD in marine ecology and still occasionally publishes peer-reviewed papers. He is based in the UK.
Reviews
"Assignments range from getting the perfect supermacro shot of life on the seabed to creative use of available light for moody photos of wrecks, and each one is accompanied by solid but not overly technical advice, with space for notes...full of inspirational Alex Mustard shots, tips, panels and he fort of direct writing that ensures his advice lands...The simple approach works to focus attention on key elements. Some of the assignments cover initiatives such as entering competitions or producing magazine covershots...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 https://divernet.com/scuba-diving/gift-guide-7-new-books-for-divers/
"For underwater photographers out there, a new book by Alex Mustard is always something to look forward to. But this is something completely new. A book to help people improve their underwater photography one assignment at a time...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.com https://www.scubaverse.com/book-review-52-assignments-underwater-photography/
"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, October 2024
"[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 magazine, October 2024 https://divemagazine.com/?p=18908?p=18908&preview=1&_ppp=dd0e92ab8e
Praise for Underwater Photography Masterclass by Alex Mustard:
"With more than 30 years' experience as a photographer, and a deep knowledge of marine life, Mustard is the ideal guide to help you take the plunge and discover the beauty and majesty of the underwater world." Outdoor Photography Magazine
"It is full of mind-blowingly good images. As you then delve in more deeply, you find all the information you need to do just that - improve your photography. There is no doubt that this will be considered THE essential read for those who are just starting out in underwater photography all the way to the seasoned pros." Scubaverse.com
"marine biologist [and] underwater photographer Alex Mustard is the modern master of what he does, and willingly reveals to others, by way of escorted photo-safaris, how he does it. Instead of producing just a coffee table book of pictures, he is more didactic in his approach, disguising his superb photos in this book as demonstrations of how to do it, or as inspiration to others to have a go themselves. It's a master class and it's stuffed with information." Undercurrent Magazine
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