Build the Foundation for Underwater Photography
If you’re tired of feeling like underwater photography is locked behind expensive gear or years of trial and error, this guide will give you the clarity to begin, and the foundation to grow.
This guide is about learning to see underwater. It focuses on ambient-light underwater photography, so you can start creating strong images now, using the camera gear you already own (providing guidance to help you upgrade when the time comes).
Underwater Photography Guide
Underwater Photography Guide
Learn to create powerful, ethical underwater images that captivate and tell stories with clarity, confidence, and respect for the ocean.
39€
Why This Guide Exists
For a long time, I knew I wanted to photograph the underwater world...to preserve the wonder I felt every time I submerged, and to help others connect with the ocean through images.
But getting started felt overwhelming:
Expensive gear, complex settings, colour loss, editing images that behaved nothing like land photography...
I wish I’d had a clear, beginner-friendly resource that walked me through the process.
This guide is that foundation.
It gathers the lessons I've learned through trial and error, mentorship, and years of shooting underwater, and presents them in a practical, accessible way, so you can dive in with confidence, intention, and care.
Who This Guide Is For
This guide is for snorkelers, freedivers, and scuba divers who want to move beyond “lucky shots” and start creating images that truly reflect their vision.
- Shoot underwater (or want to) and feel overwhelmed by getting started
- Want to understand how to craft your own powerful images — not just copy presets
- Prefer ambient-light photography over heavy strobe setups
- Care deeply about ethical wildlife interaction
- Want your images to reflect your vision, not your camera’s guess
Whether you shoot with a DSLR, mirrorless camera, compact, or action camera, the principles in this guide apply.
What Makes this Guide Different
✔ Focus on ambient light — so you can do more with the gear you already own
✔ Designed so you can start shooting immediately
✔ Strong focus on image-making, not just settings
✔ Clear guidance on gear care and longevity
✔ Ethical, intentional approach to underwater photography
✔ Includes RAW images to practice editing and post production.
What You'll Learn with The Underwater Photography Guide
Chapter I — Getting Started:
Camera options for underwater photography, choosing the right setup for your goals, underwater housings, lenses, ports, and accessories explained simply.
Chapter II — The Physics of Underwater Photography:
Understand why underwater images behave differently through light, colour and the role of water quality. This chapter alone will change how you shoot.
Chapter III — Diving in:
The core of this guide. Where theory meets practice:
- Preparedness and mindset
- Mastering manual mode
- Key camera settings beyond exposure
- Finding images underwater
- Crafting a captivating image
- A clear, beginner-friendly introduction to post-production
Chapter IV — Best practices:
Because great images should never come at the ocean’s or your gear's expense:
- Awareness and education underwater
- Ethical considerations in wildlife photography
- Peak buoyancy and environmental care
- Pre-dive and post-dive routines as a photographer
Chapter V — Summary and next steps:
Common mistakes (and how to avoid them), how to keep progressing after this guide, and final thoughts to take with you underwater.
Bonus Content
When you purchase the guide, you’ll also get:
- Underwater Manual Settings Cheat Sheet
- Action Camera (GoPro-style) Cheat Sheet
- RAW Images to practice editing
Start Creating with Intention
You don’t need more gear.
You don’t need perfect conditions.
You don’t need years of experience.
You need a strong foundation.
This guide will help you understand the underwater world, make intentional creative choices, and photograph the ocean with respect, so your images do more than look good.
