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This
Komodo digital photographic workshop expedition also includes advanced
sessions to take your photographic skills to international competition
level. With a modular course structure, participants will be able to
achieve certification and acquire skills that are far beyond just taking
a technically correct photograph. The emphasis is to help aspiring
photographers to compose and paint’ an award winning picture
with a camera, using both natural and artificial lighting. This will
help you achieve a competitive edge with your pictures and at the same
time yield a return on your investment. The Absolute Essentials and
Advanced Essentials course syllabus cater for both Novice and
Advanced shooters (Prosumer and DSLR).
Our Digital
Underwater Photography workshop is taught by accomplished experts and
several times winner at the renowned BBC NHM Wildlife Photographer of
the Year competition and as well at the World Underwater Pictures
Festival, Antibes. The instructor team for this cruise is Michael AW and
Mathieu Meur, authors of Essential and Advanced Guide for Digital
Underwater Photography – these are the best selling guides ever
published for underwater photography. The quality and standard of this
workshop is not found anywhere else in the world. You will be learning
from the best.
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The STUDIO:
10 Day Intensive program with the Best Underwater
Photographic opportunities in one of the most exciting location
in the world; Komodo is designated as a World Heritage site in
1991, encompasses an area of 132,000 hectares making it one of
the largest protected zones on the planet. The Komodo region has
everything from friendly mantas, schooling jacks, barracudas,
and tuna to pygmy seahorses, nudibranchs, frogfishes, and
crustaceans galore. Habitats include mangrove forests, seagrass
beds, and pristine coral reefs are among the staggering variety
of sites with walls, coral gardens, pinnacles, drop offs as well
as quiet bays and inlets for macro photographers seeking rarely
seen critters. Turtles and marine mammals frequent Komodo's
waters with occasional sightings of whales as well. Without
doubt Komodo will be your most conducive and productive studio
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The Expedition and Course package
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Airport
transfer
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Opportunity
for up to 32 dives
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En-suite
cabin with daily service
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Chef prepared
gourmet meals
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Beer and &
soft drinks with evening meals
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6. Classroom based workshops,
practical & critique sessions,
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7. Event T-shirt and
Adventure log book
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8.
Essential or Advanced Digital
Underwater photography guide, course notes,
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9. Free one year subscription to Ocean
Geographic
Awards and dive holiday prizes for Shoot Out
Competition including Best Portfolio and Best Picture
candidates
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10. Free Nitrox for those
with certification
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Expedition
platform – the sleek, stylish and spacious, MY SIREN is one of the
world premier live-aboard dive vessel specially fitted for photographic
expedition
with plenty of wet storage areas, dry prep areas, charge points, rinse
tanks. Each cabin
is equipped with
20” flat screen Dell Vostro computer
work
station network with the main 42” plasma screen in the lounge area where
we will be conducting lectures and editing session.
The vessel
offers the best in cruising comfort with delectable meals, coffee and
wines. This 35m vessel features, wide screen TV/ DVD, comfortable
lounge areas, sun decks, and luxury accommodation. With classic
exterior, polished timber & chrome, gourmet meals and an outstanding
level of service, you will feel like you are aboard your very own
private motor yacht. MY Siren is managed by a team of dedicated
professionals who work together to ensure your diving and your time on
board is fun, safe, and a first rate memorable experience that surpasses
all your expectations.
Special
offer to participants Ikelite, Aquatica, Seacam housing packages
DEPOSIT IS
Euro 1000
Email
download@underwaterartists.com
for an application form
The price
for 10 days 10 nights, four dives per day, enriched air nitrox (if
suitably qualified), all meals, all drinks including beer (excluding
wine and spirits), the full time support and assistance of Michael AW
and Mathieu Meur and the essential and competitive photography course,
the chance to win a free return holiday is: 2680 Euro per person.
Biography -
Workshop Instructors:
this is your chance to learn from
the PRO with proven track records
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Michael AW |
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Mathieu Meur |
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Michael AW :
author Essential Guide to Digital Underwater
Photography, 2 times winner BBC Natural History
Museum Wildlife Photographer, 3 times winner
Antibes World Festival of Underwater Pictures, 3
times winner Nikon International Photographic
competition.
Michael AW
Pursuing the art of underwater photography, Michael AW is
best known for his saturated colour imagery. His photographs and
editorials on environmental issues, natural history and dive travel have
been featured in Asian Geographic, BBC Wildlife, National Geographic
Travel, Asian Geographic, GEO, Nature Focus, Sport Diving, Scuba Diver,
Smithsonian, Islands, FHM, Times, to name but a few. He was the
co-founder and publisher for Asian Geographic and Scuba Diver
Australasia for seven years. Michael AW is also the founding director of
OceanNEnvironment, a charity organization registered with
Environment Australia. In 2002, Michael AW initiated the Celebrate
the Sea Festival in Singapore; the festival was subsequently staged in
Kuala Lumpur 2003 and 2004, Singapore 2005 and 2006 and 2007 in Manila,
Philippines – it has evolved to be the one of the most important
international events of the sea.
His
images have won the Nikon International Photo Contest on three
occasions. Michael is also a three-time winner at the World Festival of
Underwater Pictures, Antibes. In 2002 he won Best Music Adaptation for
Video, the Gold Diver statue for Best Black & White print in 2005 and
the Bronze statue for Portfolio, the most prestigious category of the
festival in 2006. He is also a recipient of two awards from the Natural
History Museum BBC Photographer of the Year Wildlife Competition in
2000. In 2006 he won the Best award in the underwater category.
Over
25,000 of his images have appeared in various publications and
exhibitions worldwide including the Australian Museum and Queensland
Tropical Museum. Michael has presented lectures and slide presentations
on marine life and underwater photography to the Australian Museum
Society, aquariums and private organizations in the pacific-rim
countries including the world renown Monterey Bay Aquarium in
California. He has produced and directed two 24-hour photographic
documentaries of corals reefs in the Australian Great Barrier Reef and
the Maldives in 1995 and 1999 respectively. These extended sojourns have
been encapsulated in books and a broadcast video documentary for
National Geographic. In 2003 he completed “Richest Reefs – Indonesia”, a
visual extravaganza from some of the most beautiful reefs in the world –
this book is adopted by the Indonesian government as an official gift of
state. A feature documentary of the same title was also produced
in 2003 and a revised edition of the book was published in 2006.
Beneath Bunaken (1993)
was his first and
Beneath SulaweSea is his 25th book of the sea. His
most recent project is the launch of Ocean Geographic – the official
journal of Ocean Geographic Society.
www.MichaelAW.com;
www.SeacamAsiapac.com;
www.OceanEnvironment.org;
www.Oneocean.com:
www.OceanGeographic.org
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Mathieu Meur: author Essential Guide
to Digital Underwater Photography,
author of PADI Digital Underwater
Photographer distinctive specialty,
jury member - CMAS World
Championship of Underwater
Photography,
Growing up by
the sea in Mauritius, Mathieu could literally swim before he could walk.
Mathieu started taking photos at a young age while snorkelling and free
diving, over time using various film cameras. Many years later, after
becoming a dive instructor, Mathieu switched over to digital technology
using different setups before settling for his current Nikon digital SLR
cameras housed in Seacam housings, and complemented by Ikelite and Inon
strobes.
Mathieu
authored a PADI Underwater Digital Photographer Distinctive Specialty in
2001, and co-authored An Essential Guide to Digital Underwater
Photography in 2004. Mathieu is a regular contributor to regional and
international diving publications, and has been a speaker or judge at a
number of international underwater photography events. Mathieu is always
happy in the water, be it capturing the beauty of large reef denizens,
majestic wrecks, or the tiniest of subjects.
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