About Us
DivePhotoGuide.com is a comprehensive underwater photography and videography resource and award winning website for photographers and videographers of all levels. Features include underwater photography technique guides, travel and destination guides, photo galleries, equipment guides, daily news, product reviews, event calendars, monthly contests, and a community of over 50,000 underwater photographers and videographers from around the globe. Several times each year we also host DPG underwater photography expeditions.
DivePhotoGuide was launched in 2005 by Jason Heller and Wendy Heller. DPG is currently run by Jason and editor Matt Weiss, with contributions from an extended team of talented contributors.
Whether you use a point-and-shoot or a DSLR, shoot stills or video, use one strobe or two, are a wide angle junkie or macro fanatic, DivePhotoGuide.com will provide you with the content, features and community that will help make your time out of the water a little more interesting, keep you informed about the world of underwater photography and help improve your skills.
It's free to join the DPG community, and we look forward to having you participate. Take a moment to set up a profile and share your images and leave feedback for others.
If you need to contact any of our team members, please do so using our contact form. You can also eel find and connect with us in any of the following channels:
DivePhotoGuide.com Staff
Jason Heller
Publisher & Chief Underwater Officer
Jason's Website | Twitter.com/JasonDPG | Facebook.com/jheller
Matt Weiss
Editor & The Human Macro Port
Matt is the editor of DPG. He has been magaing editorial duties since 2007 and is most likely the only full time underwater photography media editor in the world. Matt works closely with many of the professional photographers who contribute to DPG, and also shoots assignments for the website regularly. Matt graduated from Skidmore College with a degree in marine biology in 2008. He also is a web designer and the official website manager for the New York Underwater Photographic Society (NYUPS.org).
Wendy Heller
Underwater Goddess & Organic Chemist
Wendy keeps the DPG boys in line and helps manage DPG related events and international competitions. She is also a co-founder of the New York Underwater Photographic Society. Wendy is currently completing her biology degree between her travels around the world as a dive model and underwater goddess.
Gyula Somogyi
European Representative & Nuclear Anti-Proliferator
Gyula is an award winning underwater cinematographer, and runs a production company, Heliox Film in Hungary. He is an Apple Certified Pro in Final Cut Pro 6 and 7. One of his films (The ships of darkness) has been published on DVD in 2008. His latest work is a top-water documentary for a disarmament treaty about explosive ordnance of wars.
Carm Hodzic
Creative Director & Wiffle Ball Star
Carm has been involved in front end design and website architecture since 1996. In 1999 he set off to pursue the creative freedoms of working freelance, and since has worked on assignments for many industry leading clients. Carm and Jason have been working together since 1998. Their collaborative credits include work for Citibank, Shopping.com, AltaVista, Doubleclick and Hertz Rent-A-Car.
Peter Czech
Director of Technology & Borscht Master
Founder of The New Possibilities Group, in 2000, Peter has led an experienced development team that had successfully launched hundreds of websites in various industries. Peter is usually involved in all the stages of website lifecycles from conception, to development, growth and even acquisition.
Contributors To Technique Guides
Jason Heller, Matt Weiss, David Doubilet, Martin Edge, Brian Skerry, Alex Mustard, Peter Rowlands, Keri Wilk, Cal Mero, Doug Sloss, Jeff Mullins, Mike McNamara
