Since January 2006 Course Director Rainer Suter offers a new PADI Instructor Specialty Course, the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer It’s a two-part course (Level One and Level Two) and gives the new instructor candidates an overview how to teach this specialty. The instructor candidates will learn more about digital underwater photography cantered around today’s point-and-shoot digital cameras. The course helps instructor candidates to develop the knowledge, skills and practical techniques necessary to give to the students excellent photographs with a digital camera, even on their first photo dive. It is a materials-driven course intended for a broad audience snorkelers,
The course is primarily for those interested in learning the basics of digital underwater photography.
Level One of the course guides students in achieving good results easily, even if they’ve never used a digital camera before. It is designed as an introduction to course skills and knowledge. In Level One, students learn what equipment they need to take great underwater photographs, how to prepare their underwater photo system, and basic underwater photo techniques while diving in an environmentally friendly manner. Level One training is open to snorkelers, Open Water Diver students* and certified divers. Students who successfully complete Level One may receive a PADI certification card. You may conduct Level One skill development in a pool/confined water or in open water. After students successfully complete Level One, they may move on to Level Two to learn how to make their photographs even better. Level Two expands what they need to know about file formats, resolution settings, making their images lighter or darker, getting good color, composing their photo, downloading photographs into their computer and adjusting them to look their best Level
Two training is open to snorkelers and certified divers. You conduct Level Two skill development in open water. Participants who successfully complete.
