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Discover Underwater Photography for Groups,
Schools and Clubs
Ocean Optics offers a special three part introduction to taking better underwater photographs. This mini - course combines a presentation on how to get started in underwater photography with an hour long introductory underwater photography training session and sixty minutes of supervised underwater photography practice time. The practical sessions take place at Underwater Studios filming tank on the Ocean Optics Underwater Photography Stage.
"Solution Shooting - Taking Better Underwater Photographs" is a one hour presentation based on talks Ocean Optics has given at the London International Dive Show. The presentation explains some of the problems that often trip up new underwater photographers and provides solutions to help underwater photographers overcome these. Subjects covered include why taking photographs underwater is so problematic and explains why we lose light, contrast and colour when we dive. We then look at how we can cope with these problems and make great underwater images using compact digital cameras. Because successful underwater photography does require both equipment and knowledge, INON underwater camera systems and INON UK underwater photography courses are touched on, but we promise to avoid the hard sell! The talk also discusses six common subject types underwater photographers want to take pictures of - divers, fish, critters, wrecks, reefs and pelagics and offers a few simple to follow tips that can give these subjects real impact.
The wet sessions take place in Underwater Studios six metre deep filming tank. The purpose built movie studio has been used for many famous TV shows and movies. "Star Wars"," Bourne" and "Bond" are just three of the motion picture franchises the Underwater Studios team have worked on and TV credits include "Top Gear", "Casualty" and "Spooks". Your introduction to underwater photography and practice time takes place on the unique Ocean Optics Underwater Photography Stage. Built specifically for underwater photography training and practice, the set revolves around underwater workstations. Each of these is there to help you learn and practice underwater photography skills. Our fish props will help you get to grips with marine portraits, while our critters will keep you absorbed shooting close up and macro images. The wreck and coral reef is there for refining wide angle and fisheye skills. Our cinema lamp lets you work with surface lighting to shoot silhouettes of Fergal the hammerhead. During your sixty minute underwater photography introduction you'll be given an underwater radio receiver so your instructor can talk to you. You'll also be provided with a Fuji underwater camera with three INON underwater lenses and an INON underwater strobe to use. Please bring an Xd or SD card along, so you can take your images home with you. The images will be a useful reference for you to refer to in the future.
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Once your first hour is up, we'll ask you to use your own underwater cameras for sixty minutes of supervised practice time.
Minimum group size for these events is eight. If you don't have eight people to hand, call us. We may be able to help make up numbers from our own contacts. Please note that we only work with a maximum of four students underwater at a time.
About the Ocean Optics team
Steve Warren and Mark Koekemoer are experienced underwater photographers. They are contributing authors to Martin Edge's encyclopaedic manual "The Underwater Photographer" and Mark is the author of the "Photocall" underwater photography column for "Diver Magazine" and creator of the accompanying on line underwater photography competition. Steve has written for "Scuba World","Dive International", "Dive" and "Diver Magazine", often working on controversial safety features. Mark and Steve co - designed the INON UK Level One Underwater Photography Course and developed the concept of INON UK Underwater Photography Academies.
The format of an introductory talk followed by the pool practical session and debrief looking at photos worked very well for the Seasearch group, and everyone said they learnt from, and enjoyed the day, and they're now keen to get out into the sea to put everything into practice there!
Best wishes Bryony
Bryony Chapman
Marine Officer
Kent Wildlife Trust
INON uk Demonstation night with Tyneside BSAC
- A Crash Course in Underwater Photography
