Re: Any USA-based photo workshops?
darinb wrote:
Can anyone recommend a USA, Caribbean or Roatan, etc underwater photo workshop? I see they are starting back up and I would like to enroll my daughter in one--she's in grad school and has various dive certs, and wants to get "deeper" (!) into underwater photography. She uses an Olympus TG6 now.
I'm looking for something around $500 (lodging/food/travel not included) with lots of time underwater.
Can you define more specifically what you mean by a workshop?
The Bluewater example is essentially no cost addition, but there may be one or two presentations daily, and everyone is encouraged to submit 2-3 daily images for critique. Otherwise, its the intended 3-4 dives per day.
In the US timezones this could be one of the Socorro/Baja trips. In the fat Pacific its a very fruitful, if exhausting 10 days at a place like Anilao. (for macro, this is perhaps the greatest dive+photo learning to $$ trip I've taken in 25 years). About 2300 + airfare for ~36 dives.
Backscatter is associated with an annual "Digital Shootout" that tends to alternate between Bonaire and Little Caymans and next June it's in Bonaire. I've never made the schedule work, but it looks to have a pretty heavy industry presence in terms of demo gear and their ending shootout has a lot of prizes. Backscatter has championed the TG6, so could be a match, though them making 2022 a 2 week event makes it a bit more of a commitment.
Nothing really substitutes for just diving, and ideally for more than 2 or 3 days a trip. It takes a few dives to get dialed back in, unless she's fortunate enough to live somewhere where it's a short drive to get into the water.