One-to-One Workshops
A NEW CONCEPT IN LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS. ONE-TO-ON AND VERY SMALL GROUP (of friends) TUITION AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE AND ON A DATE OF YOUR CHOICE
Apart from a few VERY small group photo-tours I don't offer formal organised group workshops, my workshops are based around the concept of bespoke one-to-one tuition. The reason I've taken this approach is simply that it was something I really wanted when I was starting out and again when I was making the jump from enthusiast to advanced but I couldn't find anybody that offered it. The basic idea is to tailor the tuition to your exact needs so you get the absolute maximum benefit from the day. I run workshops across the North of England including the North Yorkshire Coast, the North Yorkshire Moors & The Lake District. Please take a look at the images in the Photo Gallery (Link) for inspiration and ideas. If you have a specific location in mind, as long as I know it intimately I'll be happy to organise a day there for you. Alternatively I'm happy to suggest locations based on the time of years, tides, specific dates etc. etc. Being a full time photographer I'm also fairly flexible on dates, weekend or mid-week and will try my best to work around you. I'm also more than happy to organise multi day trips.
IN 2012 I'M CHARGING THE FOLLOWING;
MINI WORKSHOP £85 - This is a 4-5 hours session which in the winter is normally early afternoon until well after sunset and in the summer is an evening session, again finishing well after sunset.
FULL WORKSHOP £150 - This is an 8-10 hour session that in mid winter runs from before dawn until well after sunset. In summer I normally run the sessions from around noon until well after sunset.
CAPTURE TO PRINT WORKSHOP £150 - In winter we go out for a dawn/morning shoot, then head back to my studio where I demonstrate every stage of processing in the digital dark room and you go home at the end of the day with a nice mounted print. In summer we go out for an evening session than do the processing as a second session the following day. I only run these in North Yorkshire as we need to be reasonably close to my studio.
SUMMER DUSK TO DAWN WORKSHOP £180 - Meet around 5pm, shoot until well after sunset then up for dawn and do another session before breakfast! Accommodation is not included in the price but I can make plenty of recommendation ranging from nice B&B's to camping
On all of the workshops additional people up to a maximum of 3 in total are £30 each
Personally printed Gift Vouchers are also available. You can either book a specific date & location or leave it open and the recipient can book a workshop of their choice once they receive the voucher.
Prices include all tuition and all transport during the workshop but do not include food & drinks or transport to or from the meeting point (unless you're staying or live locally).
Also unless you request me to, perhaps to demonstrate a technique, I do not make any images of my own during the workshops. You're paying me to tutor you so you get 100% of my attention throughout the day
With beginners the way I approach the day is to take you to a beautiful location and using my camera demonstrate every step of how I make a landscape photograph. From initial location choice to, camera setup, then building a balanced composition, use of neutral density graduated filters (ND Grads) to balance the sky and foreground, how and where to focus to maximise depth of field exposure, then making the exposure. Finally I show how to evaluate the image accurately on the back of the camera using the histogram and highlight alerts and show how to fine tune the exposure to get the maximum impact from the scene. After that I put my camera away and we get your gear setup and you make an identical image using your camera (using my full Lee filter system if required). We then move to other composition and locations and you practice the techniques over and over again in different situations and lighting conditions. At first I'll be helping you every step of the way (holding your hand so to speak) but as the session goes on I try to step further back allowing you to make all the decisions and then just help with a little fine tuning. My aim is to get you to a level where you can capture images that are right in camera and that need little or no processing in the digital dark room.
With more advanced photographers I follow a similar format but my aim is to help you make the jump from being able to make a visual record of a location to a level where you can express yourself artistically and capture the mood of how it felt to be there at the moment the shutter was released. We'll be looking in a lot more detail at things like the use of filters, including Neutral Density's to slow the exposure and will discuss how exposure & shutter speed effect the mood of an image. We will also discuss pre-visualisation and how light, tides, weather, times of day & the seasons effect the landscape and how we can use these to our advantage.
If you're interested drop me a line via the 'Contact' page (Link) letting me know what you have in mind and I'll get straight back to you with some ideas.
Please also check the entries in the Guestbook (Link) that have been left by people that attended workshops and the 'Images from Workshops' Gallery (Link) to see some of their favourite images.
Apart from a few VERY small group photo-tours I don't offer formal organised group workshops, my workshops are based around the concept of bespoke one-to-one tuition. The reason I've taken this approach is simply that it was something I really wanted when I was starting out and again when I was making the jump from enthusiast to advanced but I couldn't find anybody that offered it. The basic idea is to tailor the tuition to your exact needs so you get the absolute maximum benefit from the day. I run workshops across the North of England including the North Yorkshire Coast, the North Yorkshire Moors & The Lake District. Please take a look at the images in the Photo Gallery (Link) for inspiration and ideas. If you have a specific location in mind, as long as I know it intimately I'll be happy to organise a day there for you. Alternatively I'm happy to suggest locations based on the time of years, tides, specific dates etc. etc. Being a full time photographer I'm also fairly flexible on dates, weekend or mid-week and will try my best to work around you. I'm also more than happy to organise multi day trips.
IN 2012 I'M CHARGING THE FOLLOWING;
MINI WORKSHOP £85 - This is a 4-5 hours session which in the winter is normally early afternoon until well after sunset and in the summer is an evening session, again finishing well after sunset.
FULL WORKSHOP £150 - This is an 8-10 hour session that in mid winter runs from before dawn until well after sunset. In summer I normally run the sessions from around noon until well after sunset.
CAPTURE TO PRINT WORKSHOP £150 - In winter we go out for a dawn/morning shoot, then head back to my studio where I demonstrate every stage of processing in the digital dark room and you go home at the end of the day with a nice mounted print. In summer we go out for an evening session than do the processing as a second session the following day. I only run these in North Yorkshire as we need to be reasonably close to my studio.
SUMMER DUSK TO DAWN WORKSHOP £180 - Meet around 5pm, shoot until well after sunset then up for dawn and do another session before breakfast! Accommodation is not included in the price but I can make plenty of recommendation ranging from nice B&B's to camping
On all of the workshops additional people up to a maximum of 3 in total are £30 each
Personally printed Gift Vouchers are also available. You can either book a specific date & location or leave it open and the recipient can book a workshop of their choice once they receive the voucher.
Prices include all tuition and all transport during the workshop but do not include food & drinks or transport to or from the meeting point (unless you're staying or live locally).
Also unless you request me to, perhaps to demonstrate a technique, I do not make any images of my own during the workshops. You're paying me to tutor you so you get 100% of my attention throughout the day
With beginners the way I approach the day is to take you to a beautiful location and using my camera demonstrate every step of how I make a landscape photograph. From initial location choice to, camera setup, then building a balanced composition, use of neutral density graduated filters (ND Grads) to balance the sky and foreground, how and where to focus to maximise depth of field exposure, then making the exposure. Finally I show how to evaluate the image accurately on the back of the camera using the histogram and highlight alerts and show how to fine tune the exposure to get the maximum impact from the scene. After that I put my camera away and we get your gear setup and you make an identical image using your camera (using my full Lee filter system if required). We then move to other composition and locations and you practice the techniques over and over again in different situations and lighting conditions. At first I'll be helping you every step of the way (holding your hand so to speak) but as the session goes on I try to step further back allowing you to make all the decisions and then just help with a little fine tuning. My aim is to get you to a level where you can capture images that are right in camera and that need little or no processing in the digital dark room.
With more advanced photographers I follow a similar format but my aim is to help you make the jump from being able to make a visual record of a location to a level where you can express yourself artistically and capture the mood of how it felt to be there at the moment the shutter was released. We'll be looking in a lot more detail at things like the use of filters, including Neutral Density's to slow the exposure and will discuss how exposure & shutter speed effect the mood of an image. We will also discuss pre-visualisation and how light, tides, weather, times of day & the seasons effect the landscape and how we can use these to our advantage.
If you're interested drop me a line via the 'Contact' page (Link) letting me know what you have in mind and I'll get straight back to you with some ideas.
Please also check the entries in the Guestbook (Link) that have been left by people that attended workshops and the 'Images from Workshops' Gallery (Link) to see some of their favourite images.
