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Workshop Overview
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| Private Workshops |
A Private Workshop is the best way to get what you want, when you want it. It is tailored to meet any combination of the subjects listed above that you feel you need. It is ideal for couples and highly recommended for Maui visitors or anyone that wants more personal attention. It is also a money saver because you will learn much more in a shorter peiod of time. ...(details) |
| PADI Digital Underwater Photography Specialty Course |
Very basic underwater course that is designed to get the new underwater photographer up and running. This course may be used toward your PADI Advanced Open Water Certification. ...(details) |
| UW Digital Photography – Taking Control |
Getting a little more serious about your photos. Using manual mode. Auxiliary lighting, and lenses. Exposure, focus and composition. Why RAW? Serious Photoshop post processing. Using ACR. ...(details) |
| Photoshop CS® Techniques for UW Photography |
Image processing is a necessary part of digital underwater photography and Photoshop is the industry standard. Explore the tools used in the latest version of Photoshop® and ACR® that bring out the best of your UW shots. Also, how to fix the not-so-hot shots that should be saved. ...(details) |
| UW Photography Composition |
Once you have mastered, or at least understand, focus and exposure, and you are ready to move beyond "fish ID" shots. ...(details) |
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Workshop Details
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Private Workshops
The Private Workshop is a simple concept. You and I spend a little time evaluating where you are at in terms of underwater digital photography and the rest of the time working on improving it. Any topics listed in the other workshops are possible. Choose as many days as you would like and we will work about 5 hours a day. We may do one or two dives, or we may stay in the classroom for the whole session. It just depends on what we want to accomplish. We will make the decision together. We can work with the latest version of Photoshop Elements or Photoshop CSx. Whatever you want.
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| Included in the Private Workshop: Class workshop, dive(s), weights, and air.
(An additional $10 per day will be charged for a companion that needs weights and air)
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| Pre-requisites: SCUBA certified, Good buoyancy control, your camera and housing. |
| Recommended: laptop computer with Photoshop Elements or CSx installed (free trial software from Adobe® is available). |
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One day workshop for you, or you and one companion, is $225.
Additional days are $195/day.
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| Included in "basics" workshop: Class workshop, dive(s), weights, air, your pictures on cd |
| Pre-requisites: SCUBA certified, Good buoyancy control, your camera and housing. |
| Recommended: laptop computer (free trial software from Adobe® is available), familiarity with Windows® |
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One day workshop $149.95 per person with 1 tank shore dive
Optional 2nd day (additional dive and workshop) $79.00
Minimum 2 divers maximum 4 divers
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UW Digital Photography (Taking control)
Predive Workshop (approx 2hr)
Taking control of your photographs
Get the most your equipment can offer.
Strobes - Are they necessary? TTL or manual? One or 2? Aiming.
Additional lenses
What makes a good picture? Exposure, focus, and composition.
Manual mode - It's not so scary.
Shooting RAW - Why? - Why not? How?
Dive
Plan the shot before you see it
Work on one type of shot
Shoot – View – Adjust – Shoot again
Post dive workshop (approx 3 hrs)
Download pictures
Culling and RAW conversions
Color adjustments
Cropping
Sharpening - when and how
Critiquing - What's wrong? What's right?
Optional 2nd day (practice what we learned)
Dive
Post dive workshop (approx 3 hrs)
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| Included in workshop: Class workshop, dive(s), weights, air. |
| Pre-requisites: SCUBA certified, Good buoyancy control, Basic workshop or similar experience, your camera and housing |
| Recommended: laptop (free trial software available), familiarity with Windows® |
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One day workshop $149.95 per person with 1 tank shore dive
Optional 2nd day (additional dive and workshop) $79.00
Minimum 2 divers maximum 4 divers
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Photoshop CS® Techniques for UW Photography
One class (approx. 5 hrs)
Ethics and image manipulation. Where do you draw the line?
Copyright and protection
Making a copyright stamp
Image modes, color space, and file types
8 bit vs 16 bit
Important shortcuts to remember
Sequence of corrections
Tools most used for underwater photos
Converting RAW images
Levels and curves
Shadows and highlights
Color adjust or repair?
Selection methods and when to use them
Tools to avoid
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| Included in workshop: Class instruction |
| Pre-requisites: "Taking Control" Workshop (or equivalent experience) |
| Recommended: laptop with Photoshop CS® or CS2® loaded, familiarity with Windows® |
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$99.95 per person
Minimum 2 maximum 6
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Underwater Photography Composition
Predive Workshop (approx 5hr)
Composition is in the eye of the beholder but...
Is there a composition aptitude?
This is not topside photography!
Colors: true, true for the circumstances, adaptive, and chosen.
Frame it right the first time.
The viewer's eye – how to think about composition – The Story
Primary subject
Secondary subject(s)
Telling the story
Jim Church’s 7 key elements
The “rules”
Composing a wide angle shot
Composing a close-up
Working with models
Day two (most of the day)
Dive
Plan to work on composition ONLY
Post Dive classroom
Critiquing - What's wrong? What's right?
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| Included in workshop: 2 day workshop, dive, weights, air. |
| Pre-requisites: "Taking Control" Workshop (or equivalent experience) |
| Recommended: laptop (free trial software available), familiarity with Windows® |
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Two day workshop $199.00 per person with 1 tank shore dive
Minimum 4 divers maximum 6 divers
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