Curriculum Overview

 

 

 

Workshop Calendar

 

Workshop Descriptions

 

Essentials of Underwater Photography

 

• Highly recommended for anyone unfamiliar with concepts such as aperture, shutter, ISO, focal length, and magnification
• Topics Covered
  • ​The exposure triangle
  • Aperture and depth of field
  • Shutter and motion blur
  • ISO and digital noise
  • Fundamentals of strobes and balancing light
  • Fundamentals of composition
  • 5 tips for better underwater photography
• 1 day course with 2 hr lecture, 1-2 dives, and 1-2hr debrief
• Course Requirements
  • Personal dive gear and 2 full tanks
  • Camera and underwater housing (recommended: camera with adjustable aperture/shutter)

 

Composition Workshop

• Recommended for photographers looking to improve their theoretical/practical knowledge of composing a photo
• Topics Covered
  • ​Composition: putting a picture together
  • Portrait vs. landscape:
  • Traditional composition rules
    • Rule of thirds
    • Converging lines
    • Parallel lines
    • S-curves
  • ​The importance of negative space
  • Filling the frame
  • Practical tips to improving composition
• 1 day course with 2 hr lecture, 2 dives, and 1-2hr debrief
• Course Requirements
  • Personal dive gear and 2 full tanks
  • Camera and underwater housing (recommended: camera with adjustable aperture/shutter)

 

Worlds Collide

 

Lighting Workshop

• Recommended for divers interested in learning more about strobes for underwater photography
• Topics Covered
  • ​Exposure review
  • Underwater strobes: cutting through the mumbo jumbo
  • Single strobe techniques
  • Double strobe techniques
  • Macro photography with strobe
  • Wide angle photography with strobes
  • Balancing exposure
  • Limiting backscatter
  • 5 tips for smarter strobe use
• 1 day course with 2 hr lecture, 1-2 dives, and 1-2hr debrief
• Course Requirements
  • Personal dive gear and 2 full tanks
  • Camera and underwater housing
  • 1+ Underwater strobe
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Digital Darkroom (Lightroom) Workshop

• Recommended for photographers interested in learning how to use Adobe Lightroom to import, edit, organize, and archive photos
• Topics Covered
  • Photo editing software packages
  • ​Adobe Lightroom
  • Importing photos and the DNG file format
  • Keywords, flags, ratings, and colors
  • The library module
  • The develop module
    • ​Global image adjustments
    • Local image adjustments
  • Underwater photography pearls of wisdom
  • The slideshow and print modules
  • Digitally sharing your images
• 1 day course
• Course Requirements
  • Adobe Lightroom 3 or 4
  • Laptop computer preferred but not required

 

Advanced Topics in Underwater Photography

• Recommended for photographers looking to push the underwater photography envelope
• Taught in a mentorship style
• Potential Topics
  • ​Close focus wide angle photography
  • Snoot photography
  • Fluorescence photography
  • Supermacro photography
  • Over-unders
• ​Please inquire for more details