Photographic Holidays
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
1) What type of courses, workshops and holidays do you provide ?
We provide a full range of Photographic holidays, workshops, courses and tuition all aimed at helping you get the best out of your photography.
We cover the areas of Photographic techniques and skills and specialize in.
Landscape photography
Portrait photography
Model photography
Wedding photography
Black and white photography
As well as post production and techniques such as dark room skills and Photoshop for photographers.
Courses and workshops are field or studio based or a mix of both.
Landscape courses are centered around the stunning landscape of the Cleveland coast, the dales, the lakes and Scotland.
Our specialist holidays and courses consist of city breaks and specialist tours.
Technique workshops take place in our national center in Brotton.
One to one tuition can be arranged and a specific course tailored to your particular needs can be put on at a location to suit the photographer where able.
Individual bespoke courses and excursions can be arranged for parties of 5-8 photographers if they are all at the same skill level .
Courses range from single days, to two and three day workshops to our full 5 and seven day photographic holidays.
2) What photographic skills and photographic techniques will I learn.
Our courses are aimed at beginners intermediates and advanced photographers and we provide photographic skills and techniques suitable to each level. We endeavour to show you what you need to know in order to improve your photography and get more out of it.
Throughout our Photographic Holidays you will learn:
• How to ‘feel’ the landscape
• How to be ‘creative’ with your photography..
• How you can take the ‘Unique’ shots that other photographers miss.
• How to make your images stand out from the crowd.
• To organize your shoot to increase your chances of success.
• How to compose and ‘see’ the perfect image.
• How to ‘plan’ your shot
• Correct exposure techniques and the importance of depth of field
• The importance of perspective
• The importance of light in photography
• The best times to take differing types of landscape photography
• How to get the best from your cameras.
• The use of Photographic Filters, Tripods and lenses
• Post production techniques.
• Simple Photoshop skills and techniques to bring out the best in your photography.
3) What do you need to bring ?
Our photography courses, holidays and workshops have different requirements. In general you will need the items below, but please check under your particular photography course details.
• SLR/Bridge cameras, Digital or Film and its instruction book where able. (Digital Cameras are required on specific Digital Photographic courses). Fully charged with charger and a spare battery if you have one.
• A memory card or film as required with at least 200 shot capacity. Black and white photography courses will require black and white film.
• A tripod
• Warm waterproof clothing and suitable footwear, as appropriate to your particular course.
