52 Assignments

Underwater Photography

Alex Mustard

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Ammonite Press
01 February 2025

Photographic equipment & techniques; Special kinds of photography

Series: 52 Assignments

This collection of photographic workshop assignments is designed to build core skills, expand horizons and kick-start creativity. The book takes readers on an underwater adventure with assignments created 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.

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Full of technical advice .

Professional tips .

Space for readers to add their own notes .

Lists and specialised specs .

A unique journal is used to record the journey

Assignments include: .

Silhouettes .

Macro backlight .

Reflections

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.

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.

SELLING POINTS: .

A year's worth of weekly photography assignments to kick-start your creativity .

Innovative briefs from one of the world's leading underwater photographers .

Features high quality underwater photography throughout from a range of locations .

Aimed at beginners and enthusiasts

By: Alex Mustard
Imprint: Ammonite Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9781781454893
ISBN 10: 1781454892
Series: 52 Assignments
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 01 February 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

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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.

Reviews for 52 Assignments: Underwater Photography

For underwater photographers out there, a new book by Alex Mustard is always something to look forward to. But this is something completely new. A book to help people improve their underwater photography one assignment at a time. There are 52 different assignments in the book ranging from Black and White Wreck, Posing a Model, Off-Camera Strobes and everything in-between. You can tick each one off as you feel that you have successfully completed it. Start at the beginning and work through methodically or see what your next dive is going to be and select an assignment to suit. 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. I love this idea and am looking forward to picking out an assignment that will fit each of the dives I have coming up. -- Caroline Robertson-Brown * Scubaverse.com * 52 Assignments: Underwater Photography by Alex Mustard is the next photographic journal and guide book in the popular series from Ammonite Press. The 52 Assignment journals are handy project journals for photographers of all skill levels and are designed in such a way that over the course of a year the reader can try out one assignment a week and hone their skills and embrace new ways of being creative. 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. From capturing a sumptuous sunburst to taking a one-strobe macro of a strange sea creature there ideas a plenty… consider the classic black & white ship wreck photo or perhaps be daring and shoot from the hip, Alex has plenty of ideas for novices to, and veterans of, underwater photography. * Underwater Photography magazine *