Coastal Photography

It is true to say that many land­scape pho­tog­ra­phers grav­i­tate to the coast. There is some­thing quite innate about reach­ing the end of the land and fac­ing out to sea, embrac­ing the ele­ments and gaz­ing at the hori­zon. We have been teach­ing land­scape pho­tog­ra­phers at coastal envi­ron­ments for over a decade now but we have nev­er ded­i­cat­ed a work­shop to mas­ter­ing the skills need­ed to cap­ture the true essence of being at the coast. Now we have reme­died this and this advanced work­shop is designed to do just that.

Of course the coast offers as many rewards as it does chal­lenges and the vari­a­tions of the coast can be huge. You may arrive at an expanse of peb­ble banks or tip-toe over geo­log­i­cal won­ders smoothed by a mil­len­nia of tides. You may have expe­ri­enced the stark dif­fer­ences of the pris­tine white sands of the out­er Hebrides or the Uist’s in the far north of Scot­land, or the pitch black sands found at the Atlantic coast of Ice­land. What is equal­ly impor­tant is the sky and the ele­ments that we are tasked to deal with. Care­ful­ly brought togeth­er, these aspects make stun­ning coastal photographs.

Often when work­ing on a beach, we are pre­sent­ed with big skies that extend from above our heads to the far hori­zon and beyond. With­out doubt the choic­es are huge and this mas­ter­class is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to share with you the ways, we as pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­phers, have used these indi­vid­ual ele­ments of these amaz­ing envi­ron­ments and brought them togeth­er to cre­ate an image that con­veys to the view­er what you expe­ri­enced when you were there.

You may choose to work close to the ground and focus on the geol­o­gy at your feet or you may think the sky will be the dom­i­nat­ing fac­tor. You may not make it onto the sands, decid­ing to spend your time up on the cliffs look­ing out, or nestling in the dunes to pho­to­graph the mar­ram grass­es danc­ing in the breeze. Either way, they are all con­sid­er­a­tions in mak­ing a pho­to­graph that means some­thing to you about your time there.

Whilst we all love being out in the wilds, this is only part of the jour­ney and a raw file is very often not the fin­ished arti­cle .Along with head­ing to the coast and learn­ing com­po­si­tion and cam­era tech­niques we will con­tin­ue this excit­ing jour­ney indoors by tak­ing your image from a raw file to a fin­ished exhi­bi­tion qual­i­ty print. We will ded­i­cate time to shar­ing with you the up to the minute image edit­ing and post pro­cess­ing approach­es to get the very best from your files.

If you have ever vis­it­ed the coast with your cam­era and returned think­ing that your images are not quite how you want­ed them to look, then this work­shop is a must.

This is a mas­ter­class, and for this rea­son the group will be lim­it­ed to four pho­tog­ra­phers only so plen­ty of one to one time can be spent with every­body. If you want to learn from mas­ters in this field every aspect in the pur­suit of coastal land­scape pho­tog­ra­phy, then this work­shop is for you.