Photo hints and recommendation with Andy and Allison Sallmon

Andy Sallmon and Allison Vitsky Sallmon are a pictures/writing workforce that has been working collectively since 2010, and so they’ll offer some inspiring hints and recommendation to underwater photographers on the Long Beach Scuba Show on 30-31 May.

Individually and collectively, their work has been acknowledged in dozens of worldwide underwater and nature pictures competitions, graced the partitions of aquariums and museums, together with the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Smithsonian Institute, and extensively printed in magazines and books on diving, nature, and pictures.

Individually, Andy is the gross sales supervisor for Marelux USA in addition to an impartial gross sales consultant for Kraken Sports. Allison is the founder and president of Dive into the Pink, a non-profit group that mobilizes the diving group to hitch the struggle towards most cancers, and she or he is a proud member of the Women Divers Hall of Fame.

Andy and Allison will likely be doing two displays over the weekend:

The California Shooter’s Ultimate Guide to Wide Angle

California’s difficult circumstances tempt many shooters to achieve for a macro lens – however not so quick! This discuss will enable you get the very best wide-angle photographs out of your native dives, with emphasis onworking in low visibility conditions. They’ll focus on creating delicate. pure lighting in every kind of circumstances and supply tips about avoiding (and correcting) backscatter, flare, and sizzling spots. They’ll additionally contact on our favourite planning instruments, native marine life (together with the seasonality of standard topics), and profiting from sudden alternatives.

Remarkable Reef Imagery

The skill to seize lovely reef photographs is a crucial part of each underwater photographer’s skillset. However, a lot of the world’s lushest reefs are fed by nutrient-rich water, plentiful water motion, or (very often) each. This complete discuss on reef pictures will focus on methods to assist overcome these challenges. They’ll additionally focus on composition of reefscapes, together with photographically fascinating reef-dwelling creatures, incorporating the solar into your photographs whereas avoiding the dreaded ‘white ball of death’, and suggestions for taking pictures success on a crowded website.

Long Beach Scuba Show

The Long Beach Scuba Show, this 12 months sponsored by Divers Alert Network, is celebrating its thirty ninth anniversary in 2026 (30-31 May), and it represents the primary present underneath the banner of latest house owners Rork Media Limited, which additionally runs the GO Diving Shows within the UK and Australia, and publishes the global-multi-edition Scuba Diver journal, in addition to being behind the Scuba Diver Magazine YouTube Channel, and long-established web site Divernet.

Fans of the long-running occasion will likely be delighted to listen to that Rork Media plan to retain the whole lot that made the Scuba Show such a staple on the West Coast diving circuit, and improve it with new and improved components, together with a Main Stage with an enormous video wall proper within the exhibition corridor itself, a brand new format designed to stimulate exploration across the a whole lot of cubicles, and extra interactive points of interest together with a VR dive on a deep-water shipwreck within the Baltic Sea.

The three seminar rooms have been organised into themes, to make it simpler to seek out audio system/matters of curiosity, so put together to dive into Adventure, Inspiration, and UW Imaging.

Whether you’re an skilled diver, a brand new fanatic, or simply curious concerning the underwater world, the Scuba Show brings collectively the whole lot you like about diving underneath one roof.

Explore a whole lot of exhibitors showcasing the newest scuba gear, dive locations, underwater pictures gear, coaching applications, and ocean conservation initiatives. Attend inspiring seminars led by world-renowned dive specialists, explorers, and photographers, and join with dive professionals, journey operators, and fellow divers from throughout the nation.

There can be the chance to increase your skillset. The PSI-PCI Visual Cylinder Inspection course is open to everybody who needs to examine high-pressure respiratory gasoline cylinders, or simply know concerning the course of. These specialty programs assist the inspection course of with formal perform particular coaching on valve upkeep and restore, and Oxygen Cylinder Cleaning. Inspectors who’re on the three-year renewal mark and need to attend the PSI-PCI Update course will be capable to care for it on the Scuba Show as nicely.

PSI-PCI gives the one coaching that’s formally endorsed, utilized, and referred to by the cylinder producers. The coaching has been created with the enter of trade professionals and specialists in every discipline to offer you the perfect coaching accessible to fulfill the Federal necessities for the related processes.  You can be part of the workforce of PSI-PCI Professionals on the Scuba Show. Don’t wait, seats will refill shortly! Click here for extra data and to e book a slot.

The Scuba Show gives two full days of ocean journey, hand’s-on experiences, and unique present specials, and is the place the US dive group comes collectively to have fun the underwater world.

Get your tickets now!

Tickets are on sale now for the Scuba Show, and new for 2026, there’s a change to the price of entry – there’s now one ticket worth, which will get each attendee full entry to the Exhibition Hall, and entry to all seminars.

With lots of the audio system within the devoted Adventure, Inspiration, and UW Imaging seminar rooms both solely presenting on one of many days, or giving two completely different talks, plus with the headline acts on the Main Stage, and the plethora of cubicles, interactive components and far more, there’s loads to maintain you occupied on each days, so why not make a weekend of it?

Tickets can be found now – click here – priced at $33 for a day ticket, and $60 for a weekend go. There can be the choice of a VIP Pass, which features a weekend go plus 6 problems with Scuba Diver journal and 6 problems with California Diving News (Magazine supply US & Canada residents solely), and a Scuba Show Dive Team T-shirt, for $100.

Under 16s go free – deliver the household and let the youngsters dive into the enjoyable as nicely.

Join us for 2 unbelievable days, 30-31 May 2026, celebrating the world of diving on the Long Beach Convention Center!