Although I'm an experienced amateur tog, I have only limited experience of landscape.
Can anyone recommend any inexpensive landscape photo holidays. Mainly looking for a bit of tuition, good locations and good company.
Thanks
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That Photographing Scotland book (as with the rest in the series) is a stunner
Inspirational stuff
but I look at the book and don't know where to start - I would feel the need to focus on no more than a couple of locations from the book (Scotland is big) and combine that with a load of research on tides and times and what time of year and what time of day the shot works and so on
I've got far more out of hiring someone who knows what they're on about than anything I've spent on any new gear
The quality of guides does vary but when you find someone who knows what they're doing it really is a game changer
for instance there's a waterfall on Skye that's only good for a window of a few weeks outside of which it's really drab
Dave
That's basically what I'm planning. Going to hire a cottage in the Peaks and go with Photographing the Peak District in hand.
One option might be to organise a meet-up on here for a long weekend or whatever. Alternatively you could join the RPS, they do all kinds of workshops at reasoanble prices, often single day or a weekend and you ogranise your own accomodation but also some longer events with pre-booked accomodation.
I've been on a few and they have always been a good laugh, very sociable and a chance to compare notes with like-minded people.I'd definitely be interested in putting together a TP members trip. I feel I'm rather too much of a landscape newbie just yet.
I went on a one day long exposure workshop with Chris Herring and can also recommend him. For me it was less of finding locations but providing the motivation to get out there. I also picked up some useful tips. There's nothing quite like immediate feedbackWhen I was starting out I liked to do day workshops mainly to get location tips as well as brush up on skills then would stay in the area for several more days. Someone like Chris Herring (The UK Landscape) is well-priced and knowledgeable and offers a range of locations. Companies like Light and Land would likely be very good with their residential workshops and calibre of their photographers but they're expensive. For learning nothing really beats getting out on your own or with like-minded friends, you learn so much just by spending time out there - landscape photography is about so much more than camera settings it's about learning to anticipate the weather too