{"id":280,"date":"2010-08-22T22:20:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=280"},"modified":"2025-05-17T16:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T15:25:38","slug":"underwater-videography-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Underwater Videography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=257\" target=\"_blank\">posted a few weeks ago<\/a> about having to &#8220;make do&#8221; with a still camera to do underwater &#8220;video-&#8220;graphy &#8211; and then using photoshop and effects to make it look less like a slideshow.&nbsp; Well this time I made it work with actual video.&nbsp; Granted, there are a lot sexier underwater videos out there made by guys who have the gear to go down 10 meters, but what if you&#8217;re just a reg&#8217;lar person with a reg&#8217;lar camera?&nbsp; What can you do?&nbsp; Well here&#8217;s what I learned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The importance of using a tripod applies underwater.\u00a0 If you &#8220;chase&#8221; fish (as I did) the effect is the same as it would be above water.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lighting is as important underwater &#8211; if not more so.\u00a0 Film in shallow water (unless you have a fancy-schmancy underwater spotlight) and when it&#8217;s sunny.\u00a0 Keep the sun behind you if possible so it illuminates the fish<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Everything will have a blue tint, even though it looked normal underwater.\u00a0 Use a video editing program that allows you to take out some of the blue, and enhance some of the reds and browns &#8211; while still making it clear you&#8217;re underwater (i.e. leave some of the blue)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Find some kind of music that captures that underwater &#8220;feeling&#8221;&#8230;I found this particularly difficult.\u00a0 See my <a href=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=166\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post on finding legal music.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I came up with.&nbsp; Feedback?&nbsp; Ideas on doing it better?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Crete - Underwater Views\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lopo2LM_NYo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a few weeks ago about having to &#8220;make do&#8221; with a still camera to do underwater &#8220;video-&#8220;graphy &#8211; and then using photoshop and effects to make it look less like a slideshow.&nbsp; Well this time I made it work with actual video.&nbsp; Granted, there are a lot sexier underwater videos out there made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[20,112,142,120],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-editing","tag-tips","tag-underwater","tag-videography","tag-waterproof"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5688,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/5688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}