With the continued advancements in underwater cameras today, your friends will think you have been a lifelong photographer. When continuing education programs coincide with a passion, this means you can still have a very relaxing Liveaboard adventure. Taking an onboard photography course during your time at sea is simple yet rewarding. Learn about simple tweaks that will take your underwater photography up several notches.

The folks at Olympus have a dedicated and knowledgeable team who work with their TG line of cameras. Their goal is to ensure their underwater camera settings are simple to learn and that their housings are ergonomic, even if wearing 5mm gloves. This is one of the many reasons we prefer to recommend their products. Also, the fact that the cameras are waterproof, even without a housing, ensures your longtime usage, even if some water enters the housing while on a dive. Being waterproof comes in handy on topside adventures such as cave tubing, waterfall hikes or accidentally being caught in the rain.

The concerns I get most are about software and editing. Luckily, today, there are numerous software options with easy-to-learn tools to bring out the best in your underwater photographs. One-touch white balancing has become the standard in most photo editing software and quickly transforms your blue-hued photo into an explosion of all the true colors. While ‘auto correct’ may not bring your photo to all its glory, these one-click options help you find the ones that you may want to spend more time on once on the airplane ride back home.

I remember the first digital underwater camera I saw a guest using many years ago and could easily see that market exploding with potential. I immediately did as much research as I could at that time and bought a very inexpensive model to test this new world out. Getting immediate results, lead to moving up the chain of available models until I settled on one that gave me the results I was looking for and would last at least a few years in this quickly changing area. For you, there is no need to experiment with different models and spending extra unnecessary dollars. There is more information, reviews and results you can get in real time now to make a great choice your first time.

If you want to get the most out of your camera, you can also take a full weeklong photography class in specially designated underwater Mike & Mike photography school charters. These are dedicated to teaching you everything you need to know about underwater shooting lighting and composition.

The point is, with today’s point-and-shoot cameras, everyone can shoot underwater like a pro with minimal time commitment so you do not miss out on the reason we are all down there to start with, enjoying this magical underwater world on SCUBA.