Underwater Digital Video Made Easy
Underwater Digital Video Made Easy is the latest book from Hammerhead Press of Ventura, California. 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.

Underwater Digital Video Made Easy is a book that will take you from beginning through advanced underwater video skills. Packed with practical information from three underwater video professionals, topics covered include: Camera Selection, Housing Selection, Accessories, Gear Set-Up, Shooting Topside in the Marine Environment, Shooting Underwater, Lighting Underwater, Travel, Maintenance and Editing

Each chapter includes useful tips based upon actual underwater video or film projects that have been shown in theaters, on television, or are available on DVD.

Authors Steve Barsky, Lance Milbrand, and Mark Thurlow are all professional cameramen with a combined total of over 37 years in the field of underwater video production.

Underwater Digital Video Made Easy is 192 pages in length with over 150 photographs, charts, and illustrations. For more information, or to download a free sample chapter, visit www.hammerheadpress.com.

Mesmerizing color, dizzyingly intricate patterns and mind-bending shapes are on display in this unique collection of underwater images by award-winning photographer and documentarian, Dos Winkel.

Below the surface of the ocean is a world teeming with life, color, and motion. Dos Winkel’s photographs introduce readers to an eye-popping experience that blends science and art, biology and design. Fantastically shaped corals take on endless variations from mountains to buildings to perfect spheres. Brightly colored vases and blankets of sponges litter the ocean floor. Tiny fish peer out with hypnotic eyes at the camera while anemones’ languid tentacles seem to reach out of the page. Throughout the more than one hundred large-format images in this book, the mystery, beauty and pulsating life of the world’s coral reefs is everywhere in evidence. Coupled with an informative text on the ecology of coral reefs, the photographs are an inspiration to anyone searching for colors and patterns in the world around us, with a reminder that some of the wonders of the universe lie waiting to be discovered on our own planet.

Dos Winkel is an award-winning nature photographer, author, and filmmaker. His images have been published in dozens of magazines, including Voyager, Naturfoto, Terra, Oceans Illustrated, National Geographic, and Asian Diver.

Kalli de Meyer is a renowned marine biologist known for her coral reef conservation work.

For more information on the book Another World: Colors, Textures, Patterns of the Deep, visit the publisher’s web site at www.prestel.com.