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Experience is our guide |
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Let us help you take better photos! |
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A pro knows only too well that great pictures are not consistently made by taking one or two shots of a subject, or even one or two rolls. Great shots, particularly when dealing with wildlife subjects in their natural habitat, result from exceptional patience and perseverance. A few dives are not enough to assure the perfect image. Indeed, the great nature photographers may spend weeks, months or years in the field to get those legendary photos. Additionally, when the action is happening at one location, it makes little sense from the serious photographer's point of view to leave for another dive spot, just for a change in scenery or because an itinerary calls for a new reef or island. Also, a given trip should be programmed to take advantage of the strengths of a particular area, rather than the weaknesses. For example, it makes little sense to concentrate on shark dives in a location best known for macro subjects. Our Photo Pro Tours will be structured for the sole purpose of obtaining the best possible photo results under the prevailing conditions as we find them, without regard to covering the most extensive itinerary or necessarily offering the most variety. Simply put, this is how it is done. This is how the legendary photos are made. The pros know this, and this is what often separates the pros from amateurs: the patience and dedication to get it right.| |
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Our diving and photography experience is very extensive, and our specific experience in the areas we operate our tours often exceeds that of the local guides. This gives us a body of knowledge and experience matched by very, very few. While every itinerary decision we make will not necessarily be successful, as nature can't be absolutely predicted, our decisions are at least based on well educated guesses. In short, good decisions can have poor results, and often do, but that does not mean the decision was bad. Conversely, bad decisions can have good results, for that is the nature of luck. But like a tourist in Las Vegas making wild and foolish bets, every now and then they will win big, but over the long run they will go broke. Whereas, an educated gambler will play the odds wisely, and is far more likely to come out ahead over the long stretch. If you choose to sign up for one of our Photo Pro Tours, be prepared to participate in a program designed to produce the best photographic results feasible, working the way the pros do, at the possible expense of the most diverse itinerary. That is, we will visit a wide variety of dive sites, but will not hesitate to spend extensive amounts of time whenever and wherever we feel we have found ourselves in unique situation. |
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Photographers and non-photographers alike will enjoy the Chris Newbert and Birgitte Wilms Instructional Slide Show Series, personally presented on all our tours. These evening presentations are primarily designed to be entertaining, while providing technical and compositional hints for the photographers and marine life education for everyone. Chris and Birgitte will be available for personal photographic consultation on each tour, whether it be to review and critique your slides, assist you with equipment problems if possible, or simply answer technical questions. |
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Solomon Islands |
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Rainbowed Sea Tours, Inc.
74-5590 Luhia Street
Kailua-Kona, HI 96740
Toll Free: (800) 762-6827
FAX: (808) 329-2608
In Hawaii: 326-7752
www.rstours.com
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