52 Assignments: Underwater Photography - by Alex Mustard (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

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
• Reflections

Review Quotes

"A perfect book for photographers who want to create breath-taking photos of underwater vistas, 52 Assignments: Underwater Photography is a valuable guide. Mustard, widely regarded as one of the world's leading underwater photographers, has presented 52 assignments to guide you to capturing unique photographs under the sea. . Not simply a book about methods, this is one where you'll find a series of ideas, exercises, gadgets, and even gear that will build the skills of a beginner photographer and expand the skills of those with more experience."--Photographic Society of America Journal

"...accompanied by solid but not overly technical advice, with space for notes...full of inspirational Alex Mustard shots, tips, panels and the sort of direct writing that ensures his advice lands...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

"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

"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

"[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

About the 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 Year for his image Night Moves. He has a PhD in marine ecology and still occasionally publishes peer-reviewed papers. He is based in the UK.