Landscape & Nature Photography Workshops & PhotoTalks
‘Learn by doing’ is the key to every endeavour.
Perfect your field techniques and on-screen processing by joining a workshop.
Getting out, into the field with on-the-spot coaching, is the quickest way to improve your photography. Processing those images on-screen, the same day, will reinforce and build on that learning.
We'll work together on seeing photographs and composition; creating compelling landscapes, natural still life and close-up photography; working on and off a tripod; critical exposure decisions – and anything else that crops up. Post-capture processing tutorials revolve around Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and include importing photographs, photo database management, developing options for colour and black-and-white and making custom prints.
Extended Workshops are two- to seven-day bespoke/customized ‘field & screen’ photography experiences for individuals and small groups. These workshops are Ideal for international travellers and for those who want to explore the wild beauty of the Canada's northern lakes and forests, rocky ridges and thundering waterfalls from the Niagara Escarpment to the Canadian Shield. Following in the footsteps of the Group of Seven, we partner with small, remote lodges travelling to Algonquin, Killarney and Lake Superior Provincial Parks, Pukaskwa and Bruce Peninsula National Parks, Manitoulin Island, and along the Niagara Escarpment. Price varies with destinations and length of workshop. Use the CONTACT link above or the form below to discuss dates and options.
One-to-One Workshops can be scheduled for half-days (four hours) or full days (eight hours) and can be a field workshop or post-capture processing tutorial. You can choose the location or you can leave that up to me, depending on the type of photography you wish to do. One favourite combination is spending the morning in the field followed by an afternoon processing images on screen..
One-to-One workshops can be for yourself or for you and up to 3 friends. For individuals, the cost is $250 for a half-day and $400 for a full day - with you buying lunch! For each additional person (up to 3), there will be an extra $50 charge for a half-day and $75 for a full day.
Portfolio Reviews are a chance for you and I to sit down together and discuss a selection of your photographs. I will provide constructive feedback to help you improve your overall approach to photography, photography techniques and composition as well as discussions about individual photographs you would like to further improve. Again. both field and post-capture processing techniques, including printing, can be part of the review. Portfolio Reviews begin with you sending me a digital collection of images. Once I've had a chance to review them, we get together for about 2 hours to discuss your work. The cost for a Portfolio Review is $150.
Evening Photo Talks are popular with photography clubs across southern Ontario. Topics include:
Just Photography: Pure & Natural – In these days of Assistive and Generative AI, is there still room for photography as it was originally intended? Of course there is—and we will explore just how to remain true to the medium.
Beautiful Black & White: In the age of instant digital colour, why is black-and-white still so engaging? Discover the beauty of B&W and how to see and create in this most limiting of media.
Creating Compelling Landscapes: Be inspired and learn how to create landscapes in colour and black-and-white that draw viewers into a scene and invite them to linger and have a look around.
My Own Backyard: From stepping out your back door to creating the 100-mile photograph, capturing photographs of the places most accessible to us and the ones we know best is always a thrill.
Travel Photography from Akureyri to Zanzibar: The world is our
iPhoneography: In this era of bigger is better, ‘the best camera is (still) the one that’s with you’. Learn how to get the most out of that diminutive sensor
Editing Techniques using Adobe Lightroom and LrC: Each of these PhotoTalks can be run as presentations or as hands-on mini-workshops.
The Basics of Lightroom: Lightroom may be ‘industry-standard’ but how can you get the most out of what can be an overwhelming app? Learn the five fundamentals that will take your raw files from zero to 100.
The Ins and Outs of Lightroom in Colour: Lr offers an number of features to optimize and tweak colours to make
The Black-and White of Lightroom: It’s so easy to look beyond Lightroom for black-and-white, but even Lr has a number of tools available to
Shaping the Light using Lightroom: Once the basics of Lr have been mastered, there are still a number of tools available to raise the bar, to add depth and movement including Masks..
Evening Photo Talks are typically up to 2 hours in length and are $150. Please note - all prices are exclusive of travel outside the Guelph-K-W-Cambridge area.
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