Visions In The Sea was founded in 1997 by Ocean Optics, specialists in underwater photography, and Colin Doeg, co-creater of The British Society of Underwater Photographers. The concept was to bring the worlds top underwater photographers to a British audience so that skills could be shared and our clients could learn from leading experts how to take better underwater photographs.
Nine years on, Visions remains without parallel in the United Kingdom.

2005 again sees an event which firmly focuses on providing the Visions delgates with real world skills that they can apply immidiately to their own photography. As always, Visions brings together top underwater image makers with professional track records as over achievers who are going to share their hard won experience with you on the day.

As the organisers say “The bottom line is this - if you want underwater images that are better next year than they were last, then there’s only one place to be in October; Visions.”

VISIONS IN THE SEA Programme - 2005
Saturday October 22, 2005

9.30 Coffee, tea and biscuits in room G73 on the ground floor of the Franklin Wilkins Building,
King’s College London, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NN.

10.0 Conference begins in lecture theatre in building on opposite side of Stamford Street.
Shooting big animals by Jason Isley, (Scubazoo).

10.30 RAW versus JPEG, Charles Hood, senior correspondent, DIVE magazine, triggers the Big Debate.

11.15 John Collins, Photoshop plug-ins to make your life easier.

11.45 Dave Barnes - British Antarctic Survey – One giant leap for polar marine ecologists.

12.30 Buffet luncheon in room G73, Franklin Wilkins Building.

1.30 Image clinics in lecture theatre – maximum ten images per delegate.

2.15 Pheobe Rudomino-Dusiacka – The challenges of photographing film stars in the big tank at
Pinewood Studios.

2.45 Peter Rowlands – How to take extra-ordinary images with ordinary cameras.

3.30 Martin Edge – Taking pictures with punch by learning how to break the rules.

4.15 Afternoon tea

4.45 Alex Mustard – Controlling light with filters and the secrets of the Magic Filter.

5.30 Conclusion

Special evening event

7.0 Currents of Contrast - an evening with Tom Peshak. This highly talented marine biologist and
underwater photographer will describe his personal journey exploring South Africa’s two
mightyoceans in a project to document and define the eco systems of the Benguela and
Aghulas currents that hug the east and west seaboards of this vast continent.

Delegates’ dinner
8.30 The perfect way to round off your day with Ocean Optics at the Spaghetti House
restaurant, 30 St Martins Lane, London WC2. Near Trafalgar Square.