Stephen Frink Digital Masters Underwater Photography Class June 12th to 19th

The week of June 12^th I had the opportunity to attend the Stephen Frink Digital Masters Underwater Photography class in Key Largo Florida.  Steve is possibly the most published underwater photographer in the world and a member of Canon elite list of Explorer’s of Light.

The class consisted of 6 days of instruction.  We started each day with 2 dives, afternoon instruction and evening photo critique of our images captured earlier that day.

What I found excellent about the class.  We have all heard horror stories about other underwater photography classes, where the instructor is more interested in their own diving, adding stock images or afraid to divulge techniques in fear of loosing business.  Steve was the complete opposite and worked with each student to improve their skills by reviewing equipment, set-up and techniques’.   Steve’s goal was to educate how to capture the image seen through viewfinders, to tell our story and reduce the number of “lucky” shots.

We also received expert training on Adobe’s Photoshop CS5, Elements and Lightroom 3.0 by Canon Explorer’s of Light guru Eddie Tapp.

Key lessons: Exposure test for my camera and strobes, white balance settings, subject zone classifications, ambient lighting settings and rear curtain sync.  From the post productions side and new functionally in CS5: content aware, puppet warp, lens correction in camera raw 6.1 and HDR-High Dynamic range.

For additional information about the class and the instructors check out their web sites.

Stephen Frink, Canon Explorer of Light.

Eddie Tapp, Canon Explorer of Light.

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Here are some images from the week and you can also visit the Key Largo Gallery, enjoy!