Digital Underwater Photography
Digital Underwater Photography
PADI Underwater Digital Photography Course – Age 10+, 1.5 days, 2 dives – 15,500 THB
Sign up for the PADI Underwater Digital Photography Speciality Course with Narima Diving and learn how to take impressive underwater photos in just 1 day. You could produce your underwater photos as a slideshow on CDRom or DVD and impress your friends with the quality of underwater images you can achieve.
Digital has taken the underwater photography world by storm. Get in on the action with the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course. You can quickly and easily capture the underwater world with your camera and on your computer.
During the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course, you learn to use the PADI SEA (Shoot, Examine and Adjust) method, which takes full advantage of digital technology. The result is good underwater photos faster than you may imagine. You not only learn how to take good photos, but how to share them with your friends via email or printing, optimizing your work with your computer, storage and more.
The PADI U/W Digital Photography course is one of PADI’s most adaptable specialty courses, and can even be started during the last dive of your PADI Open Water Course. If you’re aged 10+ and have already completed the PADI Open Water Course (or equivalent), in general good health and fitness, and are not suffering from a cold or ear infection, you should be eligible to become a certified PADI Underwater Digital Photographer.
Please check the health requirements for this course.
On this course you will learn how to:
- Choose and use modern digital cameras and underwater housings
- Use the PADI SEA method for getting great shots quickly
- Edit and share your pictures
- Utilize the three primary principles for getting good photos underwater
The PADI Underwater Digital Photography course is an introduction to digital underwater photography centered around today’s point-and-shoot digital cameras. The course is primarily for those interested in learning the basics of digital underwater photography. You will develop the knowledge, skills and practical techniques necessary to obtain excellent photographs with a digital camera, even on your first photo dive. Learn what equipment you need to take great underwater photographs, how to prepare an U/W photo system, and try out basic U/W photo techniques whilst diving in an environmentally friendly manner. You’ll also look at file formats, resolution settings, making images lighter or darker, getting good color, photo composition, downloading photographs to a computer and adjusting them to look their best.
As an optional extra to the PADI Speciality Underwater Photographer course, you can participate in an introduction to Photoshop still image editing techniques. Gain hands on experience cropping and adjusting colour, contrast, levels, hue and saturation so you can adjust your images to perfection. We’ll happily give you advice on how to take the next steps once you’ve completed the course.
Courses start every day, at a time to suit you. You can book now, or come in to see see us while you’re on holiday in Ko Lanta. We offer free transfers to and from your resort in Ko Lanta for any of our dive courses or daily dive trips.
We run PADI U/W Digital Photography Courses in English, German, Swedish and Thai. We run semi-supported courses in French, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch. Please let us know if you require course materials in another language and we will order them for you.
The PADI U/W Digital Photographer Course costs 15,500 THB. This includes your camera rental. At Narima Diving, all our scuba certification courses include manuals and even a free t-shirts! For the PADI U/W Digital Photography Course program you’ll receive the PADI U/W Digital Photography Manual, White Balance Slate and waterproof zip bag. There may be a fuel surcharge to visit some of the further away dive sites if you choose to dive these sites during your course.
All our courses are taught in strict adherence to PADI Standards and prices include PADI certification fees. On the dive boats, we supply breakfast, lunch, drinking water, soft drinks and fruit. We also provide a selection of fruit juices and towels on each trip.
We keep group sizes small to ensure you receive maximum benefit from your tuition (maximum 4 students per Instructor). This also minimises negative impact on the reefs. Our emphasis is on safety, fun and personal service within a relaxed and stress-free environment.
Beyond the PADI U/W Digital Photography Specialty Course:
The PADI U/W Digital Photography Course certification is only the beginning! You can use this course to complement any of our other PADI Speciality Courses:
Did you know that the PADI Underwater Digital Photography Specialty Diver Course counts as one of five Specialty course certifications required for the PADI Master Scuba Diver certification?
Your next step may be to become a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver, PADI Master Scuba Diver or PADI Divemaster.
LIQUID LENSE – our Underwater Digital Imaging Academy offers longer Underwater Photography and Videography courses, aimed at people who want to take Underwater Digital Imaging a step further.
Or you can just keep diving Ko Lanta…! Narima Diving is ideally located in the South of Ko Lanta to offer shorter journey times on daily dive trips to some of the best dive sites in Thailand. Dive the famous dive sites of Hin Daeng & Hin Muang, or visit Ko Haa, Ko Rok, Ko Phi Phi, the King Cruiser Wreck, Shark Point or Anemone Reef.
