Photo Services | Cairns Australia Diving

Liveaboard Scuba Diving on the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea

Photo Services

Spoilsport has a range of facilities to suit all levels of interest in underwater photography.

Take photos your mum won’t believe!

Take photos your mum won’t believe! Buddy up with diver size fish at the Cod Hole, witness 50 sharks within 10ft at the Amphitheatre.
If you arrive with a compact camera still in the box or a high end DSLR you will capture amazing images. In February, Juergen Fruend author of the Coral Triangle said the best coral site he had every dived was Komodo ( at the centre of  Indonesian archipelago) until he dived the Acropolis just south of the Cod Hole.

Photo Shoot Out for Compacts & DSLR.

As the sunsets on the Great Barrier Reef on the last evening, you enjoy an Aussie BBQ night with champagne and prawns (straight off the barbecue). Following dinner you help judge the underwater photo competition. It’s a ton of fun & pretty low key... photos displayed are anonymous. The winners are displayed as part of the ‘Reef Reports’ on the Mike Ball website and the best photos from each month are published in the Australian Dive Log magazine. The top photo from the year will win a free trip with Mike Ball Dive Expeditions.

Photo and Video Facilities:

  • 3 large camera stations with air guns
  • A 3 tier camera shelf with recharging facilities, 110v (2 prong straight pin) and 240v (Australian) socket.
  • Dedicated camera freshwater rinse tubs.
  • Cabins 110v (2 prong straight pin) socket. 240v (Australian) socket in cabins.
  • Saloon: public computer (Windows)
  • 1x video/DVD player and 2x large wall-mounted flat screens for viewing photographs and video
  • Guest Underwater Photo Competition run every expedition.

Note: Guests are advised to bring adaptors for the electrical sockets to suit their individual chargers and USB digital memory card readers.

Underwater Camera Hire

The Canon PowerShot G12, 10 megapixel camera delivers superior image quality with amazing low light capability. Featuring a 28mm wide angle lens, 5x zoom and RAW mode, you can enjoy complete flexibility when manipulating images. Not only will you capture amazing stills, but with High Definition Movie Recording you will capture amazing movies.

Hire Includes:

Canon G12 camera and housing per day; initial tuition from onboard Videographer on care and use;evening workshop and use of public computer to download and store photos.

Workshop:

A small workshop will be held at 8.30pm with some simple guidelines and tips to improve your photography skills; the workshop is aimed at divers new to digital photography. Combine camera hire with the PADI Underwater Digital Photography course for even greater knowledge and experience. 

 

Digital Download - Full Service

Backup your photographs and safeguard your memories with our digital download service. Our photo and video pro will download your photographs to the onboard computer and at the completion of your expedition back them up to CD for you to take home.

Holiday Photo CD

Our photo pro will photograph expedition highlights and compile them on to CD for you to take home as a souvenir of your expedition. Taken on multiple dives throughout the expedition our photo pro will be busy both above and below water to capture those special moments. An additional 50 'Best of Mike Ball Dive Expeditions' images is included.

Photo Options:

Personal Holiday Photographs - your onboard photo and video pro will spend a dive taking exclusive underwater photos of you. Package includes cd.
Photo CD - includes photographs of your expedition above and below the water plus additional 'Best Of' photographs of Mike Ball Dive Expeditions.

Holiday DVD

If you like the idea of a no fuss approach to capturing all the memories of your Mike Ball Dive Expeditions adventure, then this is for you. On the last evening of your expedition your photo and video pro will present the week in total on DVD. All the expedition highlights, both above and below the water, will be professionally edited with music and made available for purchase. Re-live your adventure at home.

Video Options:

Standard Holiday Trip DVD or video - includes highlights of your expedition above and below the water (approx 35mins).

Personalised Holiday Trip DVD - includes Standard Holiday Trip DVD plus exclusive personal footage taken by your onboard photo and video pro (approx 15mins). The onboard photo and video pro will create your personalised dive holiday DVD, providing long lasting memories in full colour and motion.