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Photography is both an art and a craft. As such, learning landscape photography is best done by doing, following an expert tutor’s instructions and advice. I have been working as an artist all my life, first as a classical music concert artist, then as a Fine Art photographer, and I have been teaching art for over 30 years both in 1-1 and small group settings. I developed my unique tutoring style teaching and studying non-stop for the last three decades, and during our LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS together I am looking forward to sharing with you everything I know about photography and art.
Below you will find a quick list of the topics we will be working on during our Workshops together.
Mastering composition is the first and most fundamental step for a successful landscape photograph. During our Workshops, I will help you bringing your vision to life and creating powerful images by organising the available elements of the landscapes in front of you in the best possible way.
In particular, we will work on the spatial relationships between different elements in the frame, on near-far compositions, on the compositional effects obtained by changing shooting point and by using different focal lengths, on how your choice of shutter speeds and aperture affects composition, on the compositional importance of the weather, and more.
The second fundamental step for a successful landscape photograph is mastering the light. During our Workshops, we will work together on putting every possible light condition, even those most photographers would discard, to the best possible use.
From the golden hour to the blue hour, from a stormy sky to a completely clear one, I will show you how to use any light available to us to create your own interpretations of a landscape, expressing different moods and enhancing the beauty of different subjects.
Mastering film development and / or digital post-processing is the third fundamental step for a successful landscape photograph. Ironically, despite the awesome power of digital editing, it is a step too often neglected nowadays. Even the most wonderfully composed photograph, taken in the best light, needs masterful development or post-processing to express its full potential. Conversely, even the most wonderfully composed photograph, taken in the best light, can be completely ruined by bad development or post-processing.
I believe that it is nearly impossible to share knowledge effectively when leading large-group Workshops. This is even truer when it comes to post-processing, where having a lot of 1-1 time is paramount. Thanks to our trademark small group size limited to 3 people and smaller, during our daily post-processing sessions we will work in-depth on bringing to life your photographs’ true and hidden potential.
Even in today’s digital world, mastering filters is still a fundamental step for a successful landscape photograph. High quality glass filters help you control and balance the light, enhance colours and increase their saturation in ways that are often impossible to achieve in post-processing. Crucially, they allow you to control shutter speed, a fundamental part of the creation of expressive landscape photographs.
During our Workshops, I will help you select the most useful filters for each shooting situation, sharing with you the reasons behind each choice and showing you how to use them for maximum effect.
Mastering exposure control, and the art of using long exposures, allow us to represent the passing of time and to interpret movement in our photographs. When used appropriately and with measure, by selecting the best exposure for any given situation rather than randomly "going as long as you can", exposure control allows us to strongly express moods and emotions in landscape photography. More, allowing us to transform the physical aspect of matter such as moving water and clouds, exposure control is an extremely powerful compositional tool as well.
During our Workshops we will explore in-depth the potential of exposure control, and I will demonstrate how to put its amazing power at your service to bring your vision fully to life.
One of the most underrated aspects in landscape photography is image ratio. While very few people think in terms of image ratio at the time of shooting, the world does not always fit into 3:2 or 4:3, the two most common image ratios available on today’s digital cameras. A photograph can be made much stronger by choosing the image ratio that best suits a particular landscape, yet most photographers tend to stick to whatever ratio comes with their cameras. During our Workshops, we will talk in depth about how to choose the image ratio best suiting any composition.
As we know, a big part of any photograph's success depends on the photographer's ability to master the light. When it comes to landscape photography, your ability to master the light in turn largely depends on your ability to read the weather. During our Workshops, we will work on reading the light, on understanding the tides and the winds, on how to interpret the clouds’ movement and more, to put all that information at your photography's service.
