Eric Cheng, at the Boston Sea Rovers Clinic

I.

Digital Underwater Photography: Gear and Techniques
March 4, 2006 . 12:30-4:30 PM (4 hours, $100 per student)
40 attendees max, theater style (space available)

Workshop will cover everything you need to know to get you in the water and shooting properly with a housed digital camera. Topics about gear will include compact digital cameras, digital SLRs, megapixels and their value, housings and accessories, strobes and lighting, maintenance, and travel. We'll also break out into compact camera and SLR groups and discuss setting up for a shoot and packing for travel. In part II of the session, we'll discuss underwater shooting techniques, including focus, exposure, and composition. Workshop includes prepared reference notes that you can take home with you. 4 hours, with short break.

II.

Photoshop CS/CS2 for Underwater Photographers
March 5, 2006 . 12:30-4:30 PM (4 hours, $100 per student)
30 attendees max, classroom style (space available)

Unlike its fabled reputation, Photoshop can only work magic on images with reasonable exposures and focus. We will discuss the essential Photoshop techniques for underwater shooters and draw the dotted line between good underwater exposures and Photoshop's ability to enhance images. Topics will include shooting in RAW and JPEG, creating and preserving digital negatives, elementary workflow, adjustment layers, resizing, safe cropping, sharpening, saving and organizing output files, RAW file conversion techniques, selective dodging and burning, selective focus masking, selective sharpening masking, making water blue, using actions for automated processing, and more. 4 hours, with short break.

Please bring your notebook computer and a power-strip to workshop II! If you do not already have Adobe Photoshop CS or CS2, download and install the 30-day tryout from Adobe's website.

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES -----------------------------------------

Eric Cheng has been rapidly gaining a reputation around the world as a digital underwater photography expert eager to share his knowledge and talent. He edits and runs Wetpixel.com, the premiere website dedicated to digital underwater photography, and has been published in numerous publications. He has also given private digital underwater imaging lessons to some of the world's most successful professional underwater photographers.

Eric was awarded a prestigious Antibes Festival award for his work with Wetpixel.com, and most recently won a category in the Nature's Best Photo Competition, which will place his images in the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum.

Berkley White is a leading expert in the field of underwater photography and digital image processing. As a professional photographer and instructor, he shares his in-field photographic techniques and digital methods through a series of select travel events each year. Berkley is the founder of Backscatter in Monterey, California, the largest specialty underwater photographic supplier in the US, and is the organizer of international photographic events such as the Digital Shootout.

James Wiseman is a deep-water engineer and an avid enthusiast of anything "wet". He helps run Wetpixel.com, and is familiar with nearly every piece of underwater digital photography gear on the market.

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