Under Water photography training in Myanmar

Who is this UW Photography training for?

You are beginner, and you wish to understand underwater photography principles
You are an advanced underwater photographer and you need to improve your skills?
 
This activity is for you!

The Smiling Seahorse gives you the chance to come improve your underwater photography skills, for the first time in Myanmar!

​We will tell you everything you need to know about underwater photography. What you can get out of your camera? How to approch diferents marin species? We will talk about  aperture, shiutter speed, ISO and compositon, etc…

 Improve your shots...

Macro and wide angle...
... ​Myanmar’s water gives you both! ​

Throughout the cruise, you will encounter beautiful underwater landscapes!

The biodiversity is phenomenal, fauna and flora, small and big everything is there whether you are macro entousiast or fish eyes pros you will find what you’re looking for.

Day dives and night dives

4 dives a day: 3 day dives + 1 night dive

night dives every day

Have a great holidays!...

4 experienced dive guides

With hundreds of dives in the area, they know how to find the nicest subjects to take photo of.
Don’t waste your time looking for the frogfish or the ghost pipefish, they will do it for you. So you can focus technical stuff and take the best photo you can!

10 photographers maximum

In order to give everyone the time and advices they seek, we limited the number of participants to 10 instead of 16. This is the guaranty to improve your skills.
Plus this will give each-others more space onboard.

Sharing good time with fellow Under Water Photographers

Being part of a photographer-only cruise is the guaranty to improve your shots. With up to 4 dives a day and as many surface intervals you will have plenty of time to share your experience, technics and tricks. As many opportunities to learn and try new styles and ideas on the next dive. All of it with the advices of a very experienced professional underwater photographer.

Learn how to edit your pictures...

With the digital photography, whether you shoot Jpg or RAW you will learn how to edit your images.

We will explain you the basics you need to know about softwares like “Photoshop” or “Lightroom”.

Diving certification required

Because you need to be a diver prior to bring a camera down there, we ask you to be certified up to 30 metres by any dive organization like Padi, Naui, ssi, Cmas or similar, and you need good buoyancy skills.
Nitrox available for EAN certified divers.

Equipment required

​Compact, hybrid or DSLR no matter the camera you have, as long as you can set it in manual mode. (If you are a Gopro user, this clinic is not for you)

The aim here for beginners is to  set yourself free from automatic modes, and for experienced photographs, the aim is to improve your knowledge and underwater photo skills.

• Minimum 1 external strobe requested 
• You will also need a laptop to edit your images and to put together slideshow to show your pictures during and at the end of the cruise if you wish to.

Think also to bring small equipment like tools and O-rings, batteries ,chargers etc…

 Book your UW-photo clinic

Date: To be confirmed.
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Rendez-vous: at The Smiling Seahorse shop in Ranong in the morning.
 
You are interested and need more info? get in touch!

Be careful, these special trips are rare and fill up quite quicky!!! book ahead of time

The Smiling Seahorse diving cruises

Review: 5, based on 135 reviews "Excellent diving experience" by Barry L, written on March 18, 2020

Just completed an excellent trip on the Smiling Seahorse in the Andamon Sea. The Smiling Seahorse is an well equipped dive boat with great facilities and excellent crew. Dive guides extremely capable and helpful. Dive sites varied and offer lots of photo opportunities, great underwater topography and excellent choice of night diving. Overall a great trip and many thanks to Frank and his crew.

★★★★★ by Barry L January 13, 2020

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