Eryri (Snowdonia) & North Wales Landscape Photography Workshops
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One-Day Workshop Series with Eugene Theron
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Murray Livingston
Murray is a South African professional fine art landscape and nature photographer (film & digital) with more than 10 years of experience. He is a deep thinker with interests in wildlife & conservation, philosophy, design, cooking, and more. All of this translates into Murray’s unique contemplative and introspective approach to photography.
Eugene Theron
Eugene is a landscape and nature photographer based in north Wales. He has a vivid imagination and is constantly dreaming up ideas; using a camera he is able to translate these ideas into a physical manifestation. Eugene is inherently drawn to vast landscapes but also the more intimate natural beauty that is sometimes less obvious; telling the whole story of the location
Workshop Overview
We are offering the following one day landscape photography workshops in North Wales:
19 August 2023 - North Wales Coast
20 August 2023 - Eryri (Snowdonia) Mountains
21 August 2023 - North Wales Waterways
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August in North Wales is stunning! The mountains come alive with the purples of heather as summer begins it’s fade into autumn, whereas at the coast you can experience long peaceful evenings surrounded by some spectacular views. This dramatic part of the United Kingdom provides endless photographic opportunity and is the perfect setting for a landscape photography workshop.
Two workshop leaders with two different approaches and styles have teamed up to offer a unique series of one-day workshops focused on improving your photography. These workshops not only give you the opportunity to learn from two leaders, but also from other attendees through constructive group discussion and image reviews. With each day designed around a different genre of landscape photography, we offer tuition that can help you master the technical side of photography, improve your compositional skills, and develop your vision in a location that suits you. Choose from exploring the beautiful coast and shorelines of North Wales or Eryri’s (Snowdonia’s) dramatic mountains and waterways, or even come along for all three days.
No matter the level of your photography, join us for a 1-day landscape photography workshop and learn how to be more intentional with your creative process, alongside different tips and techniques, to further your artistic vision.
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Two workshop leaders. Two different approaches. Murray Livingston and Eugene Theron have teamed up to offer a unique series of one-day workshops that gives you the oppotunity to learn from two different photographers.
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Choose from exploring the beautiful coast or waterways of North Wales, or Eryri’s (Snowdonia’s) dramatic mountains.
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Full 8 hour days packed with activities, which include: on location tuition, image review and discussion, and advice on post-processing.
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The intimate setting of a 1:3 teaching ratio allows for lots of 1-on-1 time as well as group tutoring. This also allows everyone plenty of space to find their own composition.
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Paired with image reviews, we will take part in critiques that look at each others work in a constructive manner. Take this opportunity to learn from other photographer’s unique approaches!
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All locations are typically a short walk from the car. If you are a regular walker then the physical requirements for this trip will be easy.
Tuition
The workshop itself will begin with a short walk to situate ourselves before delving in to the practice of photography, composition, image critiques, and more. Throughout each day, we will be focused on the art of photography & developing personal expression through a contemplative creative process. This is a great opportunity to learn from two tutors with different approaches, as well as visit some incredible locations for a unique workshop experience. We aim to help you achieve your artistic vision by improving your composition skills and teaching new techniques. In addition, we will help you make your own intimate connections with nature through the practice of photography by teaching you how to be more intentional with your creative process
Both Eugene and myself will be on hand at all times for 1-on-1 and group tuition. In addition to this, we will be performing a series of short creative exercises both to stimulate the group and to introduce the participants to the area. Part of this workshop is also to watch how we go about making photographs in the field. As such, we will also be making images with our cameras to demonstrate our creative processes. Some topics covered on the workshop range from:
Basic & Advanced camera techniques
Importance of light
Photographing in black and white or colour
How personal expression dictates composition and subject finding
Post-processing techniques
If you want to get a sense of how I teach, you can watch me in the field on my youtube channel. If you have any questions please get in touch!
Itinerary & Agenda
The itinerary for the trip will be relatively fluid to work with any conditions we should face. All days will include an opportunity to photograph in the best light at sunset. Weather is of course changeable, but we aim to teach creativity in any conditions. Workshops are aimed at all levels of photographers.
Each day will follow the following rough format:
11:30 am Meet On Location
10:45am - 2:00pm Morning Photography
2:00pm - 3:00pm Lunch
3:00pm - 4:00pm Afternoon Critique/Image Review
Short Break
4:30pm - 8:30pm Evening Photography
Pricing
Each full day is priced at £250/pp. This includes:
8 Hours of tuition
On location hands-on tutoring
Image review and discussion
Advice on image processing
Limited to 6 participants
Multi-day bookings can take advantage of the following discount codes:
2 Days (10% Discount) - DSMULTI2
3 Days (15% Discount) - DSMULTI3
Fitness and Experience
Most of the locations we will be visiting are only a very short walk from the road, although we may also explore some lower slopes of the hills in Eryri (Snowdonia) on the mountain day. These hills all have good footpaths and the walks won’t last for longer than an hour or so with minimal elevation gain.
Equipment
Please bring with all your standard photographic equipment. This is recommended to include:
Suitable DSLR/mirrorless camera and lenses (wide + normal + telephoto, ideally covering up to 24-200mm)
Tripod, Polariser, & ND Filters* (*essential for long exposures on the beaches; filter systems can be arranged if required. Please contact us in advance)
Lens cloths (to wipe off sea spray!)
Outdoor clothing including rain jackets, warm jackets, beanies, gloves, good socks and shoes. Wellies are encouraged for beach days.
Memory cards and spare batteries
What else you will need:
Transport to the location and on the day
Accommodation if travelling to the area or participating in multiple days
Insurance (Travel, health, equipment, etc)
Food & drinks
Topics that you want to discuss and focus on during the workshop
Notebook and pen
Additional Expenses
It is a condition of booking that you have comprehensive travel insurance to cover you for cancellation, activities involved and destination. This cover should include repatriation costs and medical costs. You must provide the details of your insurance with or before your final payment.
Payment & Terms
Full payment is due to reserve your place; a £100 non-refundable deposit is included in this price. The deposit should be regarded as non-refundable, as we have to organise these workshops in advance to guarantee the services we have booked on your behalf. In the event of a cancellation initiated by you, should there be any costs that are refundable, we will do our utmost to make a refund to you, or to offer a re-booking on a future workshop.
We understand that times are tough in the current economic environment; as such, we would be more than happy to work out some sort of payment plan to help alleviate any stress, just get in contact and we can figure something out!
By signing up to this workshop you agree to the standard Terms & Conditions.