Book Review: An Advanced Guide to Digital Underwater Photography

Peter Rowlands · Issue 38, Sep/Oct 2007 · pp. 60–61

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Book Review An Advanced Guide to Digital Underwater Photography by Michael Aw with Mathieu Meur with contributions by Doug Perrine, David Doubilet, Alex Mustard and Stephen Frink This 132 page A5 size book is a follow on from the hugely successful An Essential Guide to Digital Underwater Photography. As its title implies it is aimed at those who want to go beyond the basics and get the most out their highly capable digital camera. As with their previous book Messrs Aw and Meur have the gift of imparting potentially complex information into a series of precise and easy to digest modules. Digital cameras may have brought a new capability but the image is still king and this book provides detailed thinking behind some stunning images not only by the authors but by the four internationally acclaimed contributors. The result is both informative and inspiring. For me a very useful section was …