Underwater Digital Video Made Easy is a book that will take you from beginner through advanced underwater video skills. Packed with practical, real world information from three underwater video professionals, the book includes the following chapters:
- Camera Selection
- Housing Selection
- Accessories
- Gear Set-Up
- Shooting Topside in the Marine Environment
- Shooting Underwater
- Lighting Underwater
- Travel
- Maintenance
- Editing
- and much more!
- Underwater Digital Video Made Easy, Sug. Retail Price $23.95
- 192 pages, over 150 photographs and illustrations
- Written by Steven M. Barsky, Lance Milbrand,
- and Mark Thurlow
- ISBN Number: 0-9674305-5-0
Whether you've always wanted to be a motion picture director, or just want to make home videos of your next diving vacation, this book is the place to start! This is the most up-to-date book on the exciting world of underwater video.
You'll learn hints and techniques for underwater video that you won't find anywhere else. Each chapter includes useful tips based upon actual underwater video or film projects that have been shown in theaters, seen on television, or are available on DVD.
Authors Barsky, Milbrand, and Thurlow are all professional underwater cameramen with a combined total of over 37 years in the field of underwater video production.
I am not an underwater videographer, but this book made me want to become one, and that speaks volumes of its qualities. It really is a high art form to write a clear, yet comprehensive “How-to” guide book without resorting to complex language or a huge volume of intricate words and technical phrases. This book is a good example of how well it can be done. There is sufficient detail, precisely balanced with brevity, presented with ease of navigation.
This guide starts at the beginning with the considerations that surround the purchase of a camera and housing, then takes the reader through a natural progression of chapters leading up to the last chapter, which addresses what you do with your finished masterpiece when you are ready to distribute it. The nine other chapters that lie in between could almost pass for a self study course textbook in underwater photography, or at least serve as a very handy reference.
Authored by the accomplished writer, videographer and commercial diver, Steve Barsky, who is the main author, with fellow dive professionals Lance Milbrand and Mark Thurlow, decades of experience are packed into the book’s 190 pages all those very valuable small tips come from working many years. From selecting your equipment, story board to topside shooting, tips, setting up your gear and performing shoots with available light or setting your own lighting, to maintenance of and editing and distribution… everything you will need is here and then some.
I don’t quite know if I fully agree with the title of the book. Videography, it seems, as with u/w photography, requires diligence and dedication, so can it be made ‘easy’? In any case, semantics aside, this book on underwater video certainly lowers the bar.
Peter Symes - Editor of X-Ray Magazine
Review by Peter Symes - Editor of X-Ray Magazine
