This is a revised and extended article based on the one published as number 5 in the six part underwater photography series in Nuigini Blue (see below...)

It expands on the theme of how to achieve great macro images and covers equipment, technique and composure.

If the Nikon D100 was a real underwater photography game-changer, then the D200 moved the goal posts..... Digital camera technology is moving so fast it's making camera bodies obsolete in a couple of years and gone are the good old days of film cameras when you could "invest" in a new SLR & housing and expect to use it at least 5 years.

In January 2006 I managed to get one of the first Nikon D200 camera bodies to come in to Australia, courtesy of the guys at the Subal agent Sea Optics in Adelaide. but had to wait another 4 months till I recieved my new Subal housing & GS viewfinder.

I went through the upgrade process very carefully and really believed that I had the perfect system - and it was till Nikon brought out the D300 15 months later! I ended up buying a D300 body for land photography, but am currently not convinced that I should spend another small fortune and change my housing.

Wide-angle.....

Most people get into underwater photography by taking macro photographs, because it seems easier than all that difficult to master wide-angle stuff.

But there's macro and there's macro. The former is the point & shoot variety, which can produce some nice images, but if you want really eye-catching images it's like anything else - you have to work hard at it!

This fifth article in the Nuigini Blue series should help you improve your macro images.

Let there be light.....artificial light from underwater strobes is the key to good underwater images, but it's all so complicated - right?

How many strobes do you need? Is TTL necessary? Which underwater strobe to buy? How do you mount them? What do you aim that at?

This fourth article in the Nuigini Blue series should help you navigate through this particular minfield!

Well...if you are like me and believe that a housed DSLR is the way to go with your underwater photography, you should find this article of interest!

Written when the Nikon D200 was the current prosumer DSLR, and just after my upgrade from the D100, it looks at the full range of Nikon DSLR's (D40/D40X/D80/D200/D2X) available at that point in time and suggests the best use for underwater photography.

It also looks at the different aluminium underwater housings - Subal, Seacam, Aquautica, Nexus and Sea & Sea and the Ikelite plastic DSLR housings and ports.

So....you already have a nice digicam camera and have decided to take the plunge and buy a housing so that you can get into underwater photography?

Or maybe you don't but have decided to buy one complete with it's own underwater housing?

This is the second of the six part series and provides some good insight on where to start and what to buy.

Thinking of buying an underwater camera, but confused about the difference between a digicam and a DSLR? Not sure how many megapixels you need or what they actually are? What is that dynamic range anyway?

This is the first of a six part series I wrote for Nuigini Blue on underwater photography and starts off with the basics.

If you have decided to get into underwater photography, but are not sure where to start, try reading this article.

The Nikon D100 was a real game-changer when it was first released in June 2002. It was the DSLR that brought quality digital photography to the prosumer market and like many other photographers, I was convinced it was time to upgrade from my SLR film camera and "go digital".

Looking back, I probably learned more about underwater photography from using the D100 than I did from the previous 18 years of using Nikonos underwater cameras and housed SLR's.

Technology moves on and it's very easy to get swept along in "upgrade fever" - so I thought I would document my experience with the D100 and Subal housing for others considering it as their first underwater DSLR, given that second hand outfits are now a very cost-effective way of getting into underwater photography.