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Summary: Underwater photography requires special equipment such as a custom housing for the camera to keep it dry, as well as basic scuba diving equipment. Take photos of fish, eels, coral reefs and other underwater wildlife using the tips in this free video on photography from a professional photographer.
Anthony Maddaloni is a professional photographer from Austin, Texas. A New York native, he moved to Austin 10 years ago after graduating from Purchase College in New York. He has...read more
"My name is Anthony Maddaloni and I'm going to talk about underwater photography right now. Underwater photography is a really interesting, interesting genre of photography. In that you take a camera and you go underwater and you make images of it. Now an underwater camera has what's called a housing. And that housing obviously keeps the water out of the camera. And there are certain camera manufacturers that make cameras to photograph underwater with. There's digital and there's also analog. Now obviously underwater photographer might consist of swimming, it might consist of wildlife, it might consist of scuba diving. It might even consist of industrial welding. I know a professional photographer that made quite a bit of money photographing welding units, that were all have to be underwater cages. They have to have a special camera and they have to learn how to use it. Underwater photography is not inexpensive. It is, like any other photography, it's quite expensive. But once you become good at it again, it's very lucrative. And actually quite interesting to learn about. That is a little bit about underwater photography."
eHow Article: How to Shoot Underwater Photography