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Discovering the Inner Landscape - Dorset

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Often as landscape photographers we venture out into the wider surroundings and try to capture the essence of what we see surrounding us. It may be a waterfall cascading through a valley of trees swaying in a stiff breeze, but we often see the landscape as a ‘big’ picture.

Whilst there is noth­ing at all wrong with this approach, it can soon leave the pho­tog­ra­ph­er feel­ing like many of the pho­to­graph­ic oppor­tu­ni­ties at a loca­tion are expend­ed and there is lit­tle more to explore, and this work­shop aims to open up a pletho­ra of new image oppor­tu­ni­ties by see­ing in a dif­fer­ent way.

We can take almost any land­scape and com­part­men­talise it into many more pho­tographs that become cameos of the big­ger pic­ture. We do not have to pho­to­graph the sum­mit of the moun­tain where the water­fall begins and have a wide enough angle lens to see its waters flow to the fore­ground of the frame. We may choose to make an image of the clouds pass­ing the moun­tain top, or the riv­er pat­terns at our feet as the water pass­es by us.

There is so much more to tak­ing pho­tographs that are not lit­er­al but say a lot about the envi­ron­ment in which we are pho­tograph­ing. This work­shop will show you how to see in a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent way. You will be leav­ing your wide angle lens­es in the bag and spend­ing your time break­ing the view in front of you into many dif­fer­ent com­po­nents, all of which say some­thing about the land­scape. When learned, this is an incred­i­bly invalu­able skill that can change the way you see the land­scape and offer you a com­plete­ly new way of seeing.

The wide-angle lens is a pop­u­lar tool for land­scape pho­tog­ra­phy, but on this work­shop, you will be using your tele­pho­to lens­es exten­sive­ly and will spend your time learn­ing how to dis­till down fur­ther the indi­vid­ual ele­ments of the land­scape. Whilst is very enjoy­able to go to a clas­sic loca­tion and get the pic­ture you have seen so many times, we feel it is even more reward­ing to have an image that prob­a­bly no one has ever seen before which was hid­den in the wider view. It may be two branch­es touch­ing in a wood­land, a tree shad­ow on a mead­ow floor or the ridges of two moun­tains as they inter­act in low evening light, all of which are things that only you have seen and become beau­ti­ful expres­sive images of your com­mu­nion with the landscape.

This will be a work­shop where we take our time, allow our minds to wan­der and not pho­to­graph sim­ply what is in front of us, but what the land­scape slow­ly reveals to us. We are very pas­sion­ate about this approach to pho­tog­ra­phy so will be there to work with you to show you how to see in this way which will be a revelation.

3 Days

2 leaders with a maximum of 6 participants

Easy

Anglebury House, Wareham

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The price includes extensive one to one coaching and tuition, bed and breakfast accommodation in a high quality hotel (no single occupancy supplement) during the workshop.

Camera and travel insurance as well as travel to and from the venue are also not included. Meals not mentioned. Alcoholic drinks and other personal expenditure is not covered either.