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Do you need help with your underwater photography? Do you want to be able to take better photos? Do you want to be able to tweak your pictures using a photo editing software? Let’s face it; trying to control yourself and then control your camera underwater can be difficult. Then when you think you’ve got a great picture, you get out of the water to be severely disappointed with the results.

Why not join us for photography workshops here at the Dive Centre with Paul Duxfield, aka Duxy on Saturday and Sunday January 28^th /29^th. Duxy is a compact camera guru and writes photography articles for DIVE magazine. He knows compact cameras like no one else and will help you to get the best results from your camera. Now I hope those of you who have been nagging me none stop since Duxy was here last February will be satisfied that I’ve finally got him back to the Dive centre.

Duxy’s talk last January was one of the most popular presentations that we held at the Dive Centre during the whole of 2011. Everyone who attended found his charismatic approach to relaying photography technicalities incredibly easy to follow and extremely valuable information.

There will be a photography presentation and a workshop conducted over the weekend of the 28^th and 29^th January. The presentation on Saturday at 5pm will cover getting the best out of your camera regardless of what make or model you have. Duxy will explain photography fundamentals, camera settings, functions and how to get a cracking shot regardless of the underwater situation. Bring your cameras along so that you can follow along with the presentation, learn how to set your white balance and change your ISO for improved shots as well as much more. This is a different presentation to the one given last February so if you came along last time, there’s more to learn! The charge for this presentation is £15 each.

During the workshop on Sunday at 10.00am, Duxy will show you how to edit your photos to get that extra special picture. This may seem like cheating a little but it’s no different to the days of photo manipulation in dark rooms. You’ll be amazed at how your photo’s can clean up; even the worst photo could look great with a couple of tweaks. Duxy will spend more time with each of the attendees, explaining editing software and how to manipulate your shots to look like stoney cove is a tropical, warm water site or to get rid of the annoying blue shot of death on all of your holiday photo’s! You’ll be able to bring your laptops and a couple of your own photo’s for Duxy to demonstrate hands on editing techniques. The charge for this workshop is £25 each.

There are limited spaces available for each of these photography workshops so you’ll need to put your name down fast. Contact Katy on 01782 207474 for more information.

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