Underwater Photography - Amazing water images in no time!
What you'll learn
- What type of camera gear to use in the water
- Take great underwater photos
- Understand the proper camera settings to shoot underwater
- Pre-setup checklist before you go in the water
- Techniques on taking better images
- Safety while in the water
- How to be creative with your water shots
Requirements
- Post Production will be done in Lightroom
- A camera and a waterhousing
- Cameras including DSLR, GoPro
Description
Explore techniques for making beautiful wave and underwater photographs. Learn how to choose the right camera and water housing, what camera settings to use, and how to work with the subject in an original creative fashion.
I'll assist students with lectures and also videos in the water. Learn technical skills of underwater photography and the variety of approaches available: over/under water, marine life, waves, surfing, etc.
Following the videos from in the water, the students will learn post-processing instruction using Lightroom Software. Prerequisite: Knowledge of basic photography and camera settings, and access to a DSLR camera with a water housing or a GoPro. You may even use a waterproof iPhone case.
** This course is not for advanced divers looking to go very deep with a lot of lighting and gear to shoot. This course is intended to focus on people who want to shoot in shallower waters like snorkeling, shore break surf photography, coral / marine life and creative types of shots.
Who this course is for:
- This course is meant for people who want to improve their photography while in the water.
- This course is not suitable for people who can't swim
- This course is more for beginners to intermediate photographers looking to shoot in shallower waters such as snorkeling and shore break surf images.
- This course is NOT intended for deep sea photography where you need a lot of the extra rigs of lighting and very expensive water housings. (that will be another course)
Course content
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Instructor
![Kenji Croman](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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I was born in Hawaii and have always been in love with the ocean. It started out like most teens in Hawaii, body boarding (aka 'boogie boarding') which later transitioned to bodysurfing. It was natural for me to be a bodysurfer since I was a competitive swimmer in high school and even a little bit in college. I really bodysurfing because it's just you, the wave and your fins, nothing else. It's so pure.. So 10 yrs ago when I would be bodysurfing these massive waves at Waimea or Pipe it was such a cool experience I wanted to tell everyone! I would try my best to explain what I just experienced to others, friends, family, whoever would listen. I would flare my arms up to describe how big the waves were, make funny sounds with my mouth describing the thunder and bass the waves make underwater and ramble on how gorgeous the colors and reflections were. Unfortunately, that's what it mainly was, rambling. Then I held my first DSLR camera in 2007 and I instantly knew I found my calling. Literally a few months after I bought my camera, I moved to South East Asia to focus on photography full-time. For nearly a year, I worked on my own unique style as a photographer and artist. The people and energy of the land I visited invariably moved me. When I moved back home to Hawaii, I had a completely different understanding of what I was able to do with my camera; I was able to create art. This led me to combine the two things I really enjoy doing, bodysurfing and photography. I don't have the skills to articulate my experiences or myself very well, but I do know photography and that's how I started out as a swimmer to a bodysurfer to a surf photographer.