workshops
Underwater photography is a complex mixture of different challenges. For everyone it is a life-long process of self-improvement. With guidance from experienced photographers you can advance your level of underwater photography dramatically. During our hands-on photoworkshops we make beginners into semi-pros, and advanced photographers into competition ready shooters.
Why should you join a workshop
- Are you intermediate but feel you haven’t really broken through and have lots of unanswered questions?
- Are you new to underwater photography and want to learn quickly?
- Are you advanced but have some techniques that you just have not cracked yet?
Joining our workshops helps everyone with their photo skills as we have various trainers on site and will offer teaching sessions at various levels. The cooperative dynamic between the 10-15 guests also helps propel your photography to the next level.
Upcoming workshops
What is a workshop like?
What you will learn
Every day we will cover different topics for advanced and beginner photographers. The groups will be offered various talks and presentations for different levels and interest. Some topics will be
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Basics: Framing, manual mode, lighting, strobe positioning,
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Digital: Lightroom and Photoshop, beginner and advanced
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Lighting: Advanced lighting techniques, snoot and background lighting
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Macro and Super-Macro
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Close Focus Wide Angle
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Wide-Angle - Approach
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Artificial backgrounds ("disco bokeh") and other creative techniques
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Shoot to Win - how to win competitions
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JOSCHKA
Learn from the pros: Highly recommend for anyone serious to advance their UW photography. I've done dive trips with photo workshops before, and they've been a mixed bag elsewhere. Here, it all came together: Proper planning (from organisation to season and dive sites), care and hand-selected groups, and most importantly: A schedule jam-packed with diving, workshops, and rubbing shoulders with a great crew of like-minded people.
I submitted some of my photos from the workshop and won in two categories at OG PICOTY!!
Diving the same sites as the pros will help anyone who wants to take their photography game to the next level. I loved the spirit of "get out there to get a killer shot". Proper image reviews, up-to-date software classes, and the pro's insights into composition and overall technique will appeal to beginners or more advanced photographers (like myself) alike.
5 stars – and looking forward to the next trip!
JOHN
My wife and I have both been taking UW photos for years and while getting better, thought we would try and step up our game. We heard about Inside Divers course and since we love Macro Photography we thought we would give it a chance. I have taken other courses in the past that gave me the basics that I have been living by those lessons for many years.
Taking the Inside Divers course was a step above any classes thing we have done before – much more than just the basics, focusing more on really getting a picture that would knock someone’s socks off, being creative, and learning how to create award winning photos. We learned and were able to focus in water on so many things that will really step up our level of UW photography. The out of water classes and evening critique of pictures was extremely helpful.
Simon and Tobias were outstanding teachers, the classes well organized, prepared for, and run, the information delivered invaluable, and the facilities that were chosen at NAD Lembeh were outstanding. As an added bonus, we met some really quality people and some excellent photographers in the class and will continue these relationships and diving with some of them going forward.
I am looking at UW pictures now in a completely different light and it is really helping me visualize and take a much better UW pictures. I am excited about continuing to take all of this knowledge and perfecting it in my normal diving and upcoming Inside Diver classes. I would highly recommend these classes to anyone who really wants to step up their game taking UW pictures.
KITTIE
Just got back from my second adventure with Insider Divers, and I’m already itching to book another one! But seriously, do I even need to explain why?
The Macro Photography Workshop in Lembeh was an absolute mind-blower for photography enthusiasts and critter nerd like myself! It wasn't just a holiday; it was a full-blown photography boot camp that took my skills and confidence to new heights.
Simon Lorenz and Tobias Friedrich, our photography maestros, orchestrated a symphony of lectures on underwater photography, composition, lighting, and those mind-boggling techniques for capturing the tiniest of critters in all their glory.
This might sound wrong, but I loved 6:30 AM lectures that set your creative gears in motion, followed by two long morning dives to immediately put your newfound knowledge into action. Imagine Tobias or Simon, underwater gurus extraordinaire, swimming over to help you achieve that perfect shot you've been dreaming of!
But that's not all! The evening gatherings, aptly dubbed "image review," were absolute game-changers. I got invaluable feedback on my photos and got to see the world of these alien looking critters through the lenses of my fellow 'insiders.'
Spending a week in the company of these underwater photography masters, with the chance to bombard them with questions throughout the day, was nothing short of priceless. My underwater images have been dragged by the ears to a whole new level, and I'm seriously contemplating proudly displaying some of my work in my living room.
Insider Divers – you've done it again! I can't wait to dive back into the deep blue with you for my next epic adventure!