Sam’s Tours Special Diving Event: Mastering Underwater Photography in Palau

Koror/Munich, January 19, 2008

Palau based dive center Sam’s Tours offers advanced digital photographers a workshop to improve their skills and master post-shoot work flow management. Tony Wu, one of Asia’s best underwater photographers and editor of Fins Magazine will hold the workshops from April 22-27, 2008. Joining him will Gunther Deichmann, well renowned for his brilliant landscape and surface shots and also a certified Apple Pro trainer for Aperture. The event will cater to both divers and non-divers with lots of opportunities for underwater and topside photography. It will comprise instruction on Apple Aperture and Adobe Photoshop. Sites underwater include Blue Corner as well as other great locations. Sites ashore include Micronesia’s second largest island of Babeldaob, Palau.

The digital photography workshop will be the first event in the newly opened digital photoshop established on the premises of the dive base along with the major renovation that has been completed in January 2008.
Divers have now access to 7 Apple iMacs, 8 housed digital cameras and 2 housed HD videocams for rental. All workstations have Internet access and 3 of the stations are optimized for digital imaging with Apple Aperture and Adobe Photoshop software. One workstation is optimized for video editing.

Says Dermot Keane, Managing Director of Sam’s Tours: “A couple of years ago, one out of ten divers arrived with a camera and requested photography services – mainly slide development. Nowadays, practically every confident diver wants to benefit from the now very affordable digital camera equipment.

Palau is blessed with unspoiled reefs, spectacular wrecks and soft corals and an abundance of large pelagic animals. We at Sam’s Tours would like to give every diver, whether beginner or expert, the opportunity to take their personal memories of their special dive experiences home and share them with friends, families and fellow divers.”

For more information on this as well as other upcoming events, please visit
www.samstours.com

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