Cathy offers private classes teaching underwater photography, Photoshop and more in sunny Grand Cayman. Cathy is happy to teach beginners or those who have been doing underwater photography for years! She has been teaching underwater photography for over 45 years and is passionate about helping you improve.
You can learn with any camera from the simplest point and shoot, to an advanced DSLR. If you don’t have a camera, we can rent you an Olympus TG-5, Olympus OMD EM5-II or the Sealife DC2000. Students get 50% off rentals when they are used during classes.
What is a class like?
Classes are offered at our photo centre at Sunset House, south of Georgetown in Grand Cayman. Typically they include about one to two hours in the classroom, plus an hour-and-a-half for gearing up and making a leisurely shore dive, weather permitting, followed by a critique if there is time remaining. Or you can charter Cathy’s private dive boat, MY Photo Journey, for diving on sites beyond Sunset Reef.
Classes usually start at 9 a.m. or 1:30 p.m. Topics vary to meet your needs and can include an introduction to digital concepts, the basics of photography, camera settings, optimum menu settings for underwater use, strobe aim and exposures, lens choices, camera handling and diving with a camera.
You can cover the basics in one class or divide it into two. The first class can emphasize how to take exciting close-ups of beautiful small creatures such as hermit crabs and Christmas tree worms. In the second session you will photograph scenes of sponges and corals, or a small wreck or Amphitrite the mermaid, with sunlit backgrounds.
In advanced sessions we can move on to creative strobe lighting and improving your composition. You can also learn about underwater image editing — as a brief overview during a regular class or in more detail in a dry lesson.
PADI Specialty
We offer the Digital UW Photography I, and Digital UW Photography II PADI specialties. The certifications require completion of one or two dives respectively. There is an additional charge of US$40.00 for each certification.
Cathy Church's Photo Centre 