Course-duration:
Sunday evening until saturday morning
with 6 theory lessons and 5 boat dives

Required photo-equipment:
UW-camera, standart-lense, wideangle-lense, with min. 80 ° picture-angle. UW-Strobe on a double joint arm. Macro-set or lenses.

Course-topics:

• - Preparation and planning of photodives
• - Analogue and digital  basics and techniques .  
• - Strobetechniques.
• - Wideangle-photography
• - Macro-photography
• - Fish-photography
• - Diver/model pictures
• - Wreck-photography
• - Digital-Workflow
  - Care and maintenance of photoequipments
• - Environment and behavings
• - Product information
   

Courseprogamm

Sunday evening: Theory 1

• - Information about the course-
•  Repetition of basic and techniques in underwater photography.
  - Set-up of the Equipment 
  - Briefing of photodive next morning.

Monday morning: Water 1

• - Photodive with free photo-equipment.
  - Free subjects.

Monday-afternoon. Theory 2

• - Topic: "Wideangle-photography and adapted strobe techniques.
  - Briefing with pictures of subjects we're going to shoot in water 2
  - Projection and discussion of the results from water 1.

Tuesday-morning. Water 2

• - Photodive with wideangle-lens and
    adapted lightning-techniques .

Tuesday-afternoon: Theory 3

• - Topic: "Animal-photography "
  - Topic: "Planning of photodives and environmental behavior when photographing.
  - Briefing with pictures of subjects we're going to shoot in water 3
  - Projection and discussion of the results from water 2.

Wednesday-morning: Water 3

• - Photodive shooting animals using the proper techniques.

Wednesday-afternoon Theory 4

• - Topic: "Close-up and macrophotography
  - Topic: Care and maintenance of the photo-equipment
  - Briefing with pictures of the subjects we're going to shoot in water 4
  - Projection and discussion of the results from water 3

Thursday-morning: Water 4

• - Macro-photography or close-ups

Thursday-afternoon: Theory 5

• - Topic: diver/model pictures
  - Topic: wreck-photography
  - Briefing with pictures of the subjects we're going to shoot in water 5
  - Projection and discussion of the results from water 4
  

Friday-morning: water 5

• - Photodive to the airplane-wreck " P-38 Ligthning"
    for diver and wreck pictures
  

Friday-afternoon: Theory 6

• - Projection and discussion of the results from water 5
  - Summary
  - Question-hour
  - Selection of the six best pictures by each participant for the Jury.
  - Closing party with slide show and award giving for the three best portfolios.

Date of the English ADVANCED Workshop 2008: 
       

                     September 28. -  October 04,  2008              

Arrival of the participants  is on Sunday late afternoon
Departure   Saturday-morning.

• - Workshop
  - Films  and developing for analoque Fotographers
  - Accommodation on half board in "La Bastide "  6 nights in double-room.
  - Six theory-lessons and five photo-dives with the "H2O".
  - Diploma

Registration