About the Autumn Colours- Landscape Workshop - April 23-26 2010 $720

Throughout the workshop you will be encouraged to take risks, to be inspired and energized, to be more open and expressive in your photography. We aim to help you improve your personal vision as well as discover new ways of seeing and makingphotographs.

We consider the process of making images to be more important than in some cases the product. You should leave this course knowing yourself a little better; great photography comes from the heart, passion and commitment.

Maximum group size 8 students to two tutors, Mike Langford and Jackie Ranken

Above all enjoy yourself and your photography.

This all starts with a good understanding of what photography is, how your camera operates, and pre-visualizing what you want to photograph.

To confirm your attendance:
Please send us your full contact details; Name, address, phone numbers.

We will send you our direct credit bank details for you to make your deposit NZ$360. Refunds are possible up to two months prior to the workshop starting date and are transferable up to one month in advance. Full payment is due one month in advance.

The Critique process ...
All students will need to edit their images from each photographic session down to around twelve files. These edited images will be downloaded onto our computer and will be data projected for the group to see. The edited images will become part of a book we will make on the Monday of the Workshop. Copyright of the images remains with the photographers at all times.

If you don’t have your own laptop or downloading devise then please let us know, we can facilitate by using our computers. You will need to be shooting jpegs for this process.

What you should bring:
Five landscape photographs for the first gentle critique session on the Friday afternoon, prints or digital files. Clothing for cold / wet weather as well as sunny weather including a hat, waterproof walking boots. Insect repellent. Umbrella or rain coat for your camera, small hand cloth to dry down gear.

Your camera gear, sturdy tripod, camera charger, spare memory cards, or if your shooting Raw files a transportable hard drive to download to.

Use our Canon 500D SLR cameras; if you don’t have a digital DSLR. We burn your files @ $20 per DVD. We also have a few tripods that we can loan out @ $20, light traveling tripods are of almost no use. If your thinking about buying a tripod for the workshop contact us and we will give you our recommendations or bring one for you to purchase.

What we provide;

Tuition from Friday to Monday, 3-lunches, 1-dinner, Four wheel drive access into a fantastic part of the planet.

1 A4 Art print of an image that you have made over the weekend, Morning and afternoon teas.

Schedule-

This is a guide to what happens, each workshop is unique in that the group has it’s own dynamics.

After the Friday night’s session, the schedule maybe modified to suit the group. The workshops are about enjoying photography, and enjoying the company of other like-minded people, I encourage you to be open and relaxed.

Friday

3pm-5pm –Introduction to the course, bring along five landscape photographs or digital files to introduce yourself to your fellow photographers. These will be discussed in terms of composition, so consider bringing images that you want feedback on.

Saturday

9.00am Revision on the use of the creative controls in your camera: exposure, shutter speed, aperture, white balance, picture styles, preventing camera shake..
10 .00am Composition lecture, pre-visualizing- the image making process.
11.00am Morning tea
11.30am pack your lunch and travel to Macetown –

Up the Arrowtown River. This includes many river crossings is at it’s best in Autumn. We travel through Arrowtown on the way and we will stop to make photographs wherever they present themselves. Macetown was a gold mining town.

5.00pm Download and critique
6.30pm Dinner
7.30pm audiovisuals by Mike and Jackie. This is an evening of inspirational photographic journeys and photographic tales.

Sunday

9.00am Review of Saturdays images.
10.00am Lecture on making ‘art prints’ or preparing for an exhibition.
11.00am Excursion to Skippers Canyon-Packed lunch
4.00pm Download and Critique
6.00 pm. Dinner out in Queenstown, pay as you go.

Monday

This day is a relaxing day of tutorials, it’s a chance to make the most from the weekends photography .

9.00 am - Photoshop tutorial on making an art print. Each student to select an image for Jackie to prepare / enhance as an ‘art print’. A small A4 print will then be printed on either her Canon Pro 9500 Martk II or her Epson Pro 7900.
Morning tea
11.00am From the weekend photography a book will be compiled. Students are encouraged to bring along a laptop if they need to learn more about Photoshop (it’s best to practice at the time), other wise watch and learn from Jackie or Mike as they ‘fix’ images for the book.
2pm Farwell.

Queenstown Photography Workshops ............ Autumn Colours - Portrait - Travel - Basic Photography.

Waiver of Liability:
"QCCP" shall take no responsibility or liability for personal or property damage during the duration of the Workshop, or be liable for non- refundable Airline tickets. "QCCP" reserves the right to cancel Workshops one month prior to it's commencement if numbers are insufficient or due to unforeseen circumstances.