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 Course Overview:
This course will help you learn how to take your fist underwater photographs or fine tune
your existing skills to produce photographs that will stun your friends.
Prerequisites:
Must be at least 10 years old and certified as a Junior Open Water Diver or an Open Water
Diver or have a qualifying certification from another training organization.
 Course Activities:
You will learn about the planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of
underwater-photography diving, photographic principles, composition, film types, flash photography,
available light photography, camera-handling techniques, and care and maintenance of photographic
equipment. You will get to use your new knowledge during the 2 dives performed under the supervision
of an instructor. Before each dive, the instructor will brief the dive, you will then dive the dive
and after each dive, the instructor will debrief the dive.
- Classroom:
There are one classroom session. The classroom session will cover
each of the chapters, review your knowledge review answers and prepare you for the open
water dives.
- Independent Study:
Read the Underwater Photography Specialty manual and complete Knowledge Reviews
parts I and II. You will need to turn in the knowledge reviews prior to certification.
- Open Water Dives:
The 2 open water dives are done at an area lake/scuba park
or on a dive trip.
 Forms Required:
Students training will need to complete the three (3) forms:
Liability Release,
Statement of Understanding, and
Medical Statement
prior to entering the water.
Materials/Equipment Required:
Underwater Photography Manual and White Balance Slate (included in course price). Recommended: Underwater Photography DVD
($25 - NOT included in course price).
Price of Course:
$99 - Price includes Underwater Photography Manual, certification card, picture
for certification card and two dives under the supervision of an instructor. If you have done a underwater photography dive in
connection with your Adventure Diver or Advanced Open Water Diver certification, provide us with a copy of the Adventure Log book
page signed by your instructor evidencing that you have turned in the knowledge review and completed the dive. We will subtract $20
from the cost of the specialty.
Deposit:
$50 - Cost of Materials.
 Length of Course:
If you have read the Underwater Photography Manual, completed the knowledge reviews and watched the entire video prior
to coming to class then the classroom will last approximately 1 hour depending upon class size.
Course Dates: This specialty course is offered on any lake weekend or any dive trip.
See our online Dive Training Calendar for our next lake
weekend or up coming dive trip.
Related Specialties:
Project AWARE,
Boat Diver,
Coral Reef Conservation,
Deep Diver,
Drift Diver,
Dry Suit Diver,
Enriched Air (Nitrox),
Equipment Specialist,
Fish ID,
Multi-Level Diver,
Night Diver,
Peak Performance Buoyancy,
UW Naturalist,
UW Navigation,
UW Digital Photo,
UW Photo,
UW Search & Recovery,
Wreck Diver.
How To Sign-Up:
Call us at (972) 467-8314 or you can
sign-up online for the course.
You can come by and pick up the materials or we can have them delivered to your home or office.
Type of Classes: We offer the following types of classes:
(1) Group Class [scheduled classes with 4 students up to 8],
(2) Make Your Own Group [for 4 to 8 students that want to take the class together],
(3) Semi-Private [maximum of two students],
(4) Private [one person private].
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For more information, please call us at (972) 467-8314 or
email us at
or click here to request
additional information or to sign-up online
for a class or dive trip.
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Dive 1:
- Prepare and assemble an underwater camera system.
- If appropriate, set the shutter speed and aperture for an exposure based on manual meter readings,
general film exposure information or automatic programming information.
- Focus the camera by varying subject-to-camera distance or focus know setting.
- Frame and expose a complete roll of film, if appropriate, taking underwater still-life pictures.
- Bracket the exposure of each type of photo taken underwater by varying either shutter speeds or f/stops
(if appropriate).
- Compose each still life applying basic considerations such as flash angle, camera angle, subject position,
image completeness, foreground, background and complementary colors.
Dive 2:
- Prepare and assemble an underwater camera system.
- If appropriate, set the shutter speed and aperture for an exposure based on manual meter readings,
general film exposure information or automatic programming information.
- Focus the camera by varying subject-to-camera distance or focus know setting.
- Frame and expose a complete roll of film, if appropriate, taking underwater still-life pictures.
- Bracket the exposure of each type of photo taken underwater by varying either shutter speeds or f/stops
(if appropriate).
- Compose each still life applying basic considerations such as flash angle, camera angle, subject position,
image completeness, foreground, background and complementary colors.
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For more information, please call us at (972) 467-8314 or
email us at
or click here to request
additional information or to sign-up online
for a class or dive trip.
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