PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty

During the past few years the (underwater) photography world is taken by Digital. It is not longer necessary to go underwater with an ordinary film camera with 36 exposures and find out that all photo's have failed to get detail, focus and colors. With a digital camera it is possible to check the composition, focus and colors while you make the photo underwater.

It is great to show your friends what you have seen underwater and even be able to print the results in a photo-shop after your diving holidays in Bali, Indonesia. Now the memory cards for digital camera's get higher capacity and cheaper, you have more exposures during your dive then air in your cilinder. Many hundreds of pictures can be stored on the memory inside the camera.

When you have invested in a digital underwater camera with housing and sufficient memory, most of the cost are covered. There is no extra expence for buying film and the development process of the film, you only print the really good exposures on photo paper in a professional photo-shop.

After the dive the photo's can be viewed on laptop or TV because many camera are being sold with cable to connect to television. There is a range of camera's available priced from a few hundred bucks untill many many thousands of dollars. You can choose a camera and underwater housing from the same manufacturer in polycarbonate and the more expensive SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera's with aluminium housing from different exotic makings with dome ports, lenses and underwater strobes.

Before there were two PADI Underwater Photography Courses, but since there are very few people who upgrade to a ordinary film camera nowadays and since the new SLR digital camera's can really compete with the "old" film camera's, both courses have fused in one.

Course Overview

During the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty Scuba Diving Course, you will learn to use the PADI SEA method (Shoot, Examine and Adjust). This takes full advantage of digital technology. As a result you will produce great underwater photo's faster than you may imagine.

In addition of making good photographs during your diving holidays here in Bali, you also learn how to share the photos with your friends via email and printing, tweaking and optimizing your photographic work with a computer, how to store and much more.

Contained in this course are the following:

  1. Choice and usage of modern digital cameras and underwater housings;
  2. Using the PADI SEA method to get great shots quickly;
  3. Editing and sharing your pictures via a computer or printing;
  4. Learn the three primary basics for getting good photos underwater

This is one of PADI's most adaptable specialty courses and can even be started during the last dive of your PADI Open Water Diver course.

Prerequisites

  • Participating divers needs to be certified as a PADI Open Water Diver, Junior Open Water Diver (or comparable certification from another dive training organisation). Though this course is designed to be a dive course, it is also possible to participate when you are a snorkeler. You will receive a nondiving certificate when certified;
  • Have minimum age of 10 years;
  • Evaluate and sign the PADI medical statement.

This Course Includes

  • Lunch and Drinking water
  • All equipment hire
  • Air fills (free Nitrox available for EANx certified divers)
  • PADI dive insurance during the diving days
  • Transfers before, during and after the diving from and to you accommodation
  • Free Copy of BIDP's "Bali Ocean" Scuba Diving DVD (with underwater video of Bali's dive sites)

Duration Of The Course

  • Recommended duration is 12 hours
  • 3 dives

 

"When U Want To Print Your Memory" - PADI Digital Underwater Photographer

 

  

 

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