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What is MANTART? mantArt is the expert in underwater photo- and video-graphy. During many years of diving in South East Asia, Underwater Photography started to be as my passion. At the beginning I simply wanted to document my trips and impression of an amazing and wonderful underwater world with its great and colourful variety of corals and creatures. Taking simply shots of the underwater world was not enough, I always tried to achieve improvements of the quality of my taken pictures and needed skills – and it is an ongoing demand to myself ‘never ever stop to make a step forward’. With this given experience, taken pictures from the underwater world became now the Art of Underwater Photography Now the time is ready to share my knowledge and experience with other divers who want to start taking pictures under water or want to improve their skill in UW photography. With this internet presentation I want to share information about my diving trips to South East Asia and sharing pictures from an still amazing underwater world. The so called ‘coral triangle’ is famous for their biodiversity, 75% of the world coral species can be found there. Furthermore I want to provide…
Underwater Photo and Video Workshop – Bali / Tulamben
From Sat, 11 till Fri, 17 October 2014 I participated a great Underwater Photo & Video Workshop in Bali / Tulamben – Indonesia. This workshop has been organized and executed by Reef Photo. Diving from ‘Tauch Terminal‘ Diving Resort we had an easy and direct access to the dive sites of the house reef, drop off and the famous Liberty Wreck. Seraya, a nearby located muck diving dive site offered to get in touch with amazing tiny creatures I / most of us never have seen before. Techniques in different field of photo- and video- graphy like e.g. wide-angle, macro and super macro photography have been discussed and worked out during the workshop. Instructions and useful hints have been given on individual basis for improving the skills of each participants, resulting in great photo and video shots of everybody during this time. Skill improvements happened not only in gaining from the instruction imparted by the workshop leaders, but also by an other important factor which is driven by the so called group dynamic. Working together combined with lot of fun, we enjoyed these days so much. Many Thanks to Elly Wray and Chris Parsons for the great event where every body of…
Diving the Austrian Lakes
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We wish you a warm welcome to MANTART! What is MANTART? MANTART is the expert in underwater photo- and video-graphy. During many years of diving in South East Asia, Underwater Photography started to be as my passion. At the beginning I simply wanted to document my trips and impression of an amazing and wonderful underwater world with its great and colourful variety of corals and creatures. Taking simply shots of the underwater world was not enough, I always tried to achieve improvements of the quality of my taken pictures and needed skills – and it is an ongoing demand to myself ‘never ever stop to make a step forward’. With this given experience, taken pictures from the underwater world became now the Art of Underwater Photography in many different fields of underwater photography like: WIde Angle Close Focus Wide Angle Macro Super Macro Silhouette Under-Over (Half-Half) … Now the time is ready to share my knowledge and experience with other divers who want to start taking pictures under water or want to improve their skill in UW photography. With this internet presentation I want to share information about my diving trips to South East Asia and sharing pictures from an…