Editorial

Staff · Issue 68, Sep/Oct 2012 · pp. 4

Editorial Diving for photography Unlike terrestrial photography its underwater counterpart is significantly different and difficult despite the advances offered by digital. The result is that you have to become preficient at something else first i.e. diving before you should even consider taking images. Learning to dive is easy, comparatively affordable and universally available. Learning to take underwater photographs, on the other hand, is definitely not so easy, almost certainly expensive (and that’s just the gear, not the travel) and not everywhere has conditions or wildlife conducive for good images. Underwater photography tends to be a fairly lone activity. There are very few clubs like there are dive clubs so learning to take and improve underwater images is not as easy. Fortunately help has always been at hand but I’m not talking about a PADI Certification. I’m talking about dive…