Our Courses
Course Description
Join Bruce Kemp and Sheldon Boyd for a learning experience that brings your snorkeling and scuba diving adventures to the surface for you, your friends and family to enjoy.
If you’ve got an underwater digital camera or are thinking about purchasing one – it’s time to learn about cameras to get better results. Start your digital underwater adventure with courses designed to give both snorkelers and scuba divers the optimal underwater experience.
Award-winning photographer, writer and scuba diver Bruce Kemp, provides a wealth of knowledge, while Sheldon Boyd – Diving Instructor and Dive Shop owner of Serpent Aquatics – brings 38 years of diving and experience to these courses.
PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Course for Snorkelers - $327.75 + HST
This 12 hour - 3 classroom and one pool session course gets you familiar with choosing, using, caring for, and shooting with a digital camera [waterproof] and with underwater housings.
Hands-on practice on "dry land" and in one pool session, emphasize the "SEA Method" - Shoot, Examine, Adjust.
You'll learn how to use manual white balance to improve color in your underwater photos.
A limited number of rental digital cameras are available ($25/pool session for camera/housing); rental fees may be applied towards purchase of camera from Serpent Aquatics within 7 days of class.
Participants are required to supply their own 2GB SD Card for the course. Cards are available at Serpent Aquatics or you can bring your own.
This course is designed to provide you with the skill sets to better understand how to shoot images underwater, lighting requirements, use of macro and wide angle lens and image downloads.
If you own a digital camera or camera & housing bring it along.
Same goes for personal “Snorkeling Gear” Rental Packages are available @ Serpent Aquatics.
PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Course for Scuba Divers - $379.50 + HST
This 15 hour - 3 classroom and 2 pool session course gets you familiar with choosing, using, caring for, and shooting with a digital camera with underwater housing.
Hands-on practice on "dry land" and in two pool sessions, emphasize the "SEA Method" - Shoot, Examine, Adjust.
You'll practice the dive techniques that lead to great pictures while not being hard on the environment. You'll learn how to use manual white balance to improve color in your underwater photos.
A limited number of rental digital cameras are available ($25/pool session for camera/housing); rental fees may be applied towards purchase of camera from Serpent Aquatics within 7 days of class. Participants are required to supply their own 2GB SD Card for the course. Cards are available at Serpent Aquatics or you can bring your own.
This course is designed to provide you with the skill sets to better understand how to shoot images underwater, including lighting requirements, use of macro and wide angle lens and image downloads.
If you own a digital camera or camera & housing bring it along.
Same goes for personal “Scuba Gear”. Rental Packages are available @ Serpent Aquatics.
Additional costs – per/pool session [if you don’t supply your own]
Camera and Housing $25.00 + HST
Snorkeling Gear Package $10.00 + HST
Scuba Gear Package [includes tank] $25.00 + HST
Tank Rental [only] $10.00 + HST
Required Purchase
2GB SD Card – Available @ Serpent Aquatics or provide your own.
Optional Purchases
PADI Digital Underwater Photography Crew-Pack – Includes Manual, CD and White Balance Card - $69.95 + HST
PADI Specialty Course Certification in Digital Underwater Photography - $25.00 +HST
PADI Open Water Dive Session[s] - Dates to be announced
Take what you’ve learned in the class and pool out to Okanagan Lake. It’s a different reality in open water with environmental conditions, natural light and working with a full compliment of scuba gear. We round out the dive with a debriefing and review of you’re results.
Continuing Education Workshops – Dates to be Announced
•Using Strobes Systems and Lights Underwater.
•Learn how to bring more life and colors to you’re images using strobes and video lighting.
•Using Filters Underwater.
•Take the cyan and green out and bring in the colors.
•Using a Wide Angles Lens and Dome Ports.
•Find out how to bring more into you’re images.
•Close-up or Macro Images.
•Bring the smaller things to life in you’re images.
•Shooting Divers Underwater.
•Framing and using divers as models underwater.
