With good lighting and a steady hand, you can take great “photos” straight from your video camera. These are video caps taken from all my RAW video archive of underwater flora and fauna.
It’s really simple — all you need to do is make sure that you have very still shots of your subject with relatively good light. The STILL part is most important. Motion blur is a frequent culprit in videocaps so make sure your hands don’t shake. It also helps if your subjects don’t move.
It also helps that the camera is 1080p quality.
I’ll be doing this regularly in Facebook and on Flickr. In the meantime, the link is here:
http://bit.ly/underwatershots
Enjoy!