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Undertake your Digital Underwater Videography Course with our Professional Underwater Photographer and Cinematographer, Paul Macdonald.
The downunderpix Digital Underwater Videography course is designed to help you develop the technical knowledge and practical skills to obtain quality video clips with your camera system.
This is a live in course conducted at Edithburgh, Yorke Peninsula, one of South Australia’s most amazing shore dives and an ideal location for underwater videography.
This course will teach you how to capture quality underwater video clips and provide you with the fundamental knowledge to get you started on your underwater videography journey.
In the self-study theory section you will learn about your video camera’s functions and controls, light underwater and how to use it to your advantage, the basics of composition for aesthetically pleasing video clips, preparing the camera system ready to take it underwater, concepts for creating great underwater footage, how to maintain and care for your camera system post dive and basic post production processing to edit and enhance your video clips.
After completing the theory section you will undertake 2 course dives. On the dives you will apply, underwater, some of the theoretical concepts relating to exposure, composition and lighting whilst using your camera.
To participate in this course, as a minimum you must hold an open water qualification with a recognised scuba diver training agency, be 15 years or older and provide your own scuba diving equipment (minimum of 2 tanks) and underwater camera system. Although not essential, bring your laptop if you have one. Also, to get the most out of this course you will have sufficient diving experience to have good underwater buoyancy control.
Draft Agenda | ||
Friday | 7.00 pm | Theory discussion, knowledge reviews and camera system set-up |
Saturday | 9.00 am | Course dive 1 |
11.30 am | Course dive 2 | |
3.00 pm | Post production session | |
Sunday | 9.00 am | Unsupervised practice dive |
1130 am | Unsupervised practice dive |