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Photography workshops in Portugal
I offer one-to-one and small group tuition for beginner and enthusiast photographers in Portugal, which can be tailored to your precise needs. With a range of locations, including Portugal's stunning coast, rolling countryside, or street shooting in the city of Lisbon, we'll work in the best light, looking at many aspects of photography from composition and camera techniques through to post processing ideas.
Typically, we'll first discuss locations, and I'll suggest places I think you'll find interesting depending on where you are , the time of year and what areas of photography you'd like to work on.
For example if you're interested in coastal photography, we can look at the beaches on the Costa Vicentina in the Algarve, the Sintra coast near Lisbon, or the old wooden piers at Carasquiera. For landscapes we might head to the rolling hills around Messejana or Beja in Alentejo or visit the hilly forests of Sintra. Alternatively, if you're interested street photography around Lisbon there are various options and places from the old streets of Bairro Alto to the modern architecture of Parque das Nações.
When we meet, we'll always have 3 or 4 hours on location.
For landscape and coastal photography we'll spend some time looking at finding locations, talk about techniques, lens choices, metering etc, before choosing a location and settling down to shoot for the best of the light until after the sun has set. We'll look at filters, longer exposures, as well exposure blending.
For street shooting, we'll be much more fluid, visiting different locations looking for different compositions, techniques like panning, looking for architectural elements, colour, contrast etc.
After the shoot, we'll look at post processing. We'll spend around 2 hours going through the images you shot, comparing them, choosing which worked, which you like, and then select those to process. We'll look at shooting RAW and general elements for bringing out the best in images, from levels and curves, to exposure blending (if necessary), noise reduction, and sharpening for the web and print. At the end of the session you'll recieve a PDF document containing many of the tips and tricks for post processing that were covered in the session.
In a typical landscape session you can expect to cover:
-getting the best from a location
-camera technique / working with a tripod
-composition
-exposure
-understanding the cameras's histogram
-using filters
-long exposures
-shooting RAW
-post-processing workflow
-finding the keepers
-contrast, curves and levels
-noise reduction
-exposure blending
-sharpening for print and web
Price:
€100 euros for one day session
Dates and times are flexible, but vary according to time of year. Email me for more information or if you have any questions