NSU Oceanographic Campus Library Hardware Resources: Cameras for Checkout
General Information
The Oceanographic Campus Library has seven cameras available for checkout:
3 GoPros
2 Olympus TG-6 Underwater Cameras
1 Nikon Underwater Camera
1 Canon Eos Rebel T7 (NOT an underwater camera)
Due to the low number and high demand of the research hardware we have available for the Halmos College programs, we are only able to check out these items to those patrons at this time.
Cameras for Checkout
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The OCL has two Olympus TG-6 Underwater Cameras available. They may be checked out by Ocean faculty, staff, and students for up to 14 days, plus a single renewal for a further 14 days.
Once you've taken your pictures, go here to learn how to edit them! |
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- Olympus TG-6 Product Page
Go here to download all reference materials and software available for the Nikon Coolpix W300. - Olympus TG-6 Product Support
Go here to download the complete Nikon CoolPix W300 Reference Manual.
Underwater Photography: Macro
Capture the close-up beauty of fish, coral, and all manner of undersea wonders with this guide to underwater macro photography. In this course, Photoshop guru Deke McClelland is joined by master diver and professional underwater photographer Hergen Spalink to explore techniques, concepts, and gear involved in underwater macro photography. Deke and Hergen explain what macro is and which lenses you'll need to start shooting the sea's tiniest creatures. They also walk through exposure, key lighting, fill lighting, the strobe distance rule, composition, and post processing. Plus, they cover special techniques such as capturing natural fluorescence in underwater creatures.
Underwater Photography: Wide Angle
Forget landscape photography—it's time to try shooting seascapes. Wide-angle underwater photography enables you to capture the broad vistas of undersea life. In this course, Deke McClelland and master diver and professional underwater photographer Hergen Spalink take you below the surface to explore the creative options, gear, and techniques behind wide-angle underwater photography. Learn how to adjust strobe strength, aperture, and ISO with in-camera histograms; capture blended and contrasted images; expertly light underwater scenes; and distinguish your photos from the rest of the pack by capturing sunballs, rays of light, and over–unders. Plus, get an introduction to close-focus wide-angle techniques for producing even more attention-grabbing compositions.
Learning Underwater Photography
Curious about underwater photography? Dive in! In this course, Photoshop guru Deke McClelland is joined by master diver and professional underwater photographer Hergen Spalink to explore the essential techniques, concepts, and gear involved in underwater photography. Learn what it means to shoot underwater, and how to use wide-angle and macro lenses to capture a diverse array of sea life. Discover the gear you'll need to go deep, including housings, lights, and ports, and how to use strobes and torches, along with important camera settings like aperture and ISO, to achieve the right exposure. Understand how focal length and depth of field affect underwater optics, and how to ready your jump settings before you jump in the water. Whether you're a new diver or seasoned pro, these tips and techniques will help you take your underwater photography to the next level.
Enhancing Underwater Photos with Photoshop
Getting a great underwater shot isn't easy. The dives are short, the fish move fast, and colors are filtered away by the water between your lens and the subject. You can bring back the full glory of sea life, though, by using the tools in Photoshop. In this course, expert Deke McClelland takes pictures from a recent dive in Honduras—where he captured jellyfish, angelfish, parrotfish, sea turtles, octopi, moray eels, fire worms, and even a passing reef shark—and makes the images even more incredible with Photoshop's photo editing and enhancement tools. Learn how to correct contrast, enhance color, sharpen moving targets, correct distortion, and develop black-and-white versions of your images, as well as movies and animated GIFs. It's an ocean of creative possibilities—as only Photoshop can offer. Watch and learn how to take your underwater photography to even greater depths.
Photographing Life in the Sea
Get a primer in underwater photography as another form of wildlife photography that requires you to adapt to a unique set of circumstances. You'll learn how light works underwater, why you should be careful using flash, and why particular shots of underwater fauna work so well.
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The OCL has one Panasonic PT-LB90NTU LCD Projector available. It may be checked out by Ocean faculty, staff, and students for up to 24 hours. We would prefer for the projector to stay within the building. Additional peripherals include:
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The Epson PowerLite LCD Projector was donated by Ann Porterfield in December 2018 as part of a technology enhancement donation to the NSU Oceanographic Campus Library. The OCL has one available. It may be checked out by Ocean faculty, staff, and students for up to 24 hours. We would prefer for the projector to stay within the building. Additional peripherals include:
Make use of the iProjection app to project directly from your smartphone or tablet. |
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The OCL has two GoPro HERO5 cameras available. They may be checked out by Ocean faculty, staff, and students for up to 14 days, plus a single renewal for a further 14 days.
Once you've taken your pictures, go here to learn how to edit them! |
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- GoPro Download Center
Go here to download all reference materials and product updates for the GoPro Hero 5 Black.
GoPro HERO5 and HERO6: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
Got a GoPro? Whether you capture stills, video, or even time-lapse photography, this beginner's course equips you with the essential skills you need to get out from behind your computer and start shooting in the field with your GoPro HERO5 or HERO6 camera. Rich Harrington starts right at the beginning, showing how to get the camera out of the box—which is trickier than it sounds—and set up for your shoot. He also covers strategies for excelling in different shooting scenarios, and shares his insights on different menus and buttons to ensure that you get up and running quickly, without needing to fuss over controls.
Preparing GoPro Footage for Editing
After you've captured action shots in the field with your GoPro, you're ready to get your footage off of your camera and into your video editing software. In this course, Rich Harrington walks through how to transfer and organize your GoPro footage so you can edit and share it. He explains how to use built-in tools such as GoPro Studio. He shows how to trim away unwanted clips or parts of clips, transcode footage to formats optimized for video editing, use options—such as the GoPro CineForm codec—to ensure that your files are ready to edit in any popular editing tool, and more. Upon completing this course, you'll have the knowledge you need to prepare footage for major professional and consumer video editing applications.
Editing GoPro HERO Photos and Videos with Lightroom and Photoshop
From fixing lens distortion and making colors pop to assembling time-lapse movies, Lightroom and Photoshop are the perfect pair for making the most of your GoPro footage. Watch this course to learn how to correct and enhance still images and video with these powerful toolsets. Author Rich Harrington starts with the basics: importing and organizing photos, correcting distortion, adjusting color and exposure, and getting ready for print. He then moves on to working with video: developing color and exposure with adjustment layers and presets, and then rendering out the adjustments for editing in another application. He wraps things up with a short, fun tutorial on assembling a time-lapse sequence. Start watching and learn the skills you need to get the best-looking footage from the GoPro and other action cameras.
GoPro: Creative Photography and Video Techniques
Although GoPro HERO cameras are typically used for sports and action shots, the truth is they're useful in any scenario that might challenge your regular DSLR or video camera. Think underwater shoots, down and (literally) dirty perspectives, and quadcopter-mounted aerial video and photography. It sounds like an ideal set of challenges for photojournalist Paul Taggart, who also shoots video for the Discovery Channel and other media outlets. In this course, he takes us to a farming community in the state of Washington to showcase creative uses for the GoPro HERO, in a variety of situations. He goes deep at a shellfish farm, gets footage from the tractor's perspective at an organic farm, and mounts the GoPro to a quadcopter to get aerial footage at a vineyard. At the end of each chapter, he recaps the shoot and reviews the final still photos and video.
My Gopro Hero5 Camera by
My GoPro Hero5 Camera, Second Edition offers a comprehensive introduction to using the most recently released GoPro Hero camera models. All of these cameras utilize the same basic operating system and menus, but each has slightly different features, functions and possible shooting resolutions for digital images and video. It also explains how to use the GoPro Apple Watch app or the user's own voice in order to remotely control their camera, and includes a chapter about using one of the GoPro HERO5 cameras with GoPro's Karma drone. After offering an initial introduction to the cameras themselves, as well as their menus and buttons, this book offers an overview of the different camera housings and mounts available, plus explain how to utilize the GoPro mobile app and computer software. How to best use other "must have" GoPro accessories, including the Wi-Fi Remote and the LCD Touch BacPac display, for example, will also be covered. Throughout the book will be hundreds of shooting tips and strategies that teach readers how to capture the best possible photos and videos in a wide range of situations. For example, this book will offer strategies for shooting professional-quality first and third-person photos/videos, as well as traditional photos/video, plus explain ways to achieve the best possible results indoors, outdoors, underwater, in low-light situations, and in high-action situations, for example. This book will appeal to mainstream consumers who have purchased a GoPro camera to take on vacation or to capture "family moments," as well as to more active people who want to capture crystal-clear "action" images or videos of themselves engaged in various activities, using their GoPro camera in conjunction with the best combination of optional camera accessories, housings and mounts, based on their activity and the shooting conditions.
Call Number: E-BOOKISBN: 9780789758309Publication Date: 2017-05-01
GoPro Cameras for Dummies by
Shoot, edit, and share action-packed video with a GoPro The world moves fast'so if you want to capture it in real time, only a fast-moving camera will do. Enter the GoPro! This small but powerful camera is easy to hold, wear, or mount to capture video of all your high-speed adventures. Unfortunately, to the uninitiated, it can be a bit intimidating'but fear not! With the help of this revised edition of GoPro Cameras For Dummies, you'll acquire the skills needed to shoot high-quality video or photos, edit raw footage into a final masterpiece, and share your GoPro works of art with the world. Compared with traditional digital video devices, the GoPro is a superhero. Okay, so it can't scale high rises, but it can go virtually anywhere and produce thrilling new perspectives of an epic slalom down the slopes or awesomely scenic hike'and everything in between. When still photos simply won't do the trick, GoPro Cameras For Dummies shows you step by step how to use your GoPro camera to make movies, work with available light, create time-lapse sequences, and so much more. Meet the full line of GoPro cameras, including the HERO5, and find the one that's right for you Get help setting your GoPro to shoot better video Discover what you need (or don't need) to shoot in the water Find step-by-step guidance for capturing better sound Edit your work like a GoPro guru Packed with full-color photos and updated to cover the latest GoPro cameras and software, this fun and accessible guide is a gadget lover's dream.
Call Number: E-BOOKISBN: 9781119285540Publication Date: 2017-01-10
GoPro Cameras by
"Nowadays, society loves to capture their lives in colorful shots and movies they can place on YouTube, Facebook, or their own websites. Rugged and lightweight, GoPro cameras empower their users by providing powerful technology to tell stories that strike the right balance of words and pictures. These high-tech cameras enable users to capture powerful images--whether it's the miraculous beauty of a shark swimming by a coral reef or a motor cross biker flying. However, users can't just thrust this camera underwater or mount the camera to a bike and hope for the best. They need to understand the basics about how to correctly operate, mount, and care for this camera in all types of environments. They need to learn the camera's capabilities before they start spending serious cash on accessories and actually using it."
Call Number: E-BOOKISBN: 9781615648931Publication Date: 2016-06-14
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The OCL has one Nikon Coolpix W300 underwater camera available. It may be checked out by Ocean faculty, staff, and students for up to 14 days, plus a single renewal for a further 14 days.
Once you've taken your pictures, go here to learn how to edit them! |
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- Nikon Download Center
Go here to download all reference materials and software available for the Nikon Coolpix W300.
Underwater Photography: Macro
Capture the close-up beauty of fish, coral, and all manner of undersea wonders with this guide to underwater macro photography. In this course, Photoshop guru Deke McClelland is joined by master diver and professional underwater photographer Hergen Spalink to explore techniques, concepts, and gear involved in underwater macro photography. Deke and Hergen explain what macro is and which lenses you'll need to start shooting the sea's tiniest creatures. They also walk through exposure, key lighting, fill lighting, the strobe distance rule, composition, and post processing. Plus, they cover special techniques such as capturing natural fluorescence in underwater creatures.
Underwater Photography: Wide Angle
Forget landscape photography—it's time to try shooting seascapes. Wide-angle underwater photography enables you to capture the broad vistas of undersea life. In this course, Deke McClelland and master diver and professional underwater photographer Hergen Spalink take you below the surface to explore the creative options, gear, and techniques behind wide-angle underwater photography. Learn how to adjust strobe strength, aperture, and ISO with in-camera histograms; capture blended and contrasted images; expertly light underwater scenes; and distinguish your photos from the rest of the pack by capturing sunballs, rays of light, and over–unders. Plus, get an introduction to close-focus wide-angle techniques for producing even more attention-grabbing compositions.
Learning Underwater Photography
Curious about underwater photography? Dive in! In this course, Photoshop guru Deke McClelland is joined by master diver and professional underwater photographer Hergen Spalink to explore the essential techniques, concepts, and gear involved in underwater photography. Learn what it means to shoot underwater, and how to use wide-angle and macro lenses to capture a diverse array of sea life. Discover the gear you'll need to go deep, including housings, lights, and ports, and how to use strobes and torches, along with important camera settings like aperture and ISO, to achieve the right exposure. Understand how focal length and depth of field affect underwater optics, and how to ready your jump settings before you jump in the water. Whether you're a new diver or seasoned pro, these tips and techniques will help you take your underwater photography to the next level.
Enhancing Underwater Photos with Photoshop
Getting a great underwater shot isn't easy. The dives are short, the fish move fast, and colors are filtered away by the water between your lens and the subject. You can bring back the full glory of sea life, though, by using the tools in Photoshop. In this course, expert Deke McClelland takes pictures from a recent dive in Honduras—where he captured jellyfish, angelfish, parrotfish, sea turtles, octopi, moray eels, fire worms, and even a passing reef shark—and makes the images even more incredible with Photoshop's photo editing and enhancement tools. Learn how to correct contrast, enhance color, sharpen moving targets, correct distortion, and develop black-and-white versions of your images, as well as movies and animated GIFs. It's an ocean of creative possibilities—as only Photoshop can offer. Watch and learn how to take your underwater photography to even greater depths.
Photographing Life in the Sea
Get a primer in underwater photography as another form of wildlife photography that requires you to adapt to a unique set of circumstances. You'll learn how light works underwater, why you should be careful using flash, and why particular shots of underwater fauna work so well.
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The OCL has one Canon Eos Rebel T7 available. It may be checked out by Ocean faculty, staff, and students for up to 14 days, plus a single renewal for a further 14 days.
Once you've taken your pictures, go here to learn how to edit them! |
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Welcome to Photography 101
Learn basics such as how to hold the camera, what various modes mean and when to use them, and even how and when to use the camera's flash.
Lanscape Photography - Tropical Scenes
Tropical destinations offer a wealth of photographic opportunities, from lush forests to waterfalls to dramatic foliage. In this course, join photographer and educator Justin Reznick as he showcases these and other options. With the breathtaking Hawaiian island of Maui as the backdrop, Justin explains how to protect your gear in humid, tropical settings and shows how to convey the essence of tropical scenes. He also discusses lens choices, compositional considerations, post-processing, and more.
Learning Portrait Photography
Learn simple techniques for creating great portraits. In this course, Levi Sim shows how to find and make great light with basic tools, and demonstrates the easiest methods for helping people look their best while remaining comfortable. Find out how to use reflectors, diffusers, and simple strobe setups to maximize existing light, and adjust your camera settings to get excellent raw results. Levi, an experienced portrait photographer, also helps you understand the goal for each session, and bring out the best in every subject. Start watching to learn how to take better portraits with simple tools in almost all shooting situations.
7 Photography Tips for Beginners - Canon EOS Rebel T7
7 useful tips to help get you started with using the Canon EOS Rebel T7.
Camera Tricks for Creative Photos
Looking for some fun new things to try with your camera? This course is perfect for all kinds of photographers who would like to create something fun and new. Join Rich Harrington to discover hacks and tricks that you can create with your DSLR, mirrorless, or smartphone camera. Rich shows you how to set up and execute trick photography shots, techniques for long exposure light painting, how to shoot through water without getting wet, double exposures, macro photography, and more. He also shows you some tricks you can do with Live Photos in iOS. Whether you're stuck at home or on the road, these are fun things to try for amazing effects.