Due to the minimum numbers not being met, we have to remove this workshop, apologies to those who signed up, however, we are replacing this with an Introductory Digital Photography Weekend in London.

4 Days Instruction £450 (Not including travel and accommodation)

For 11 days in February, the dark monochrome streets and alleyways of Venice opens up to great colour, magnificent sights, light shows, ornate costumes and masked revelers. Carnival, literally meaning, “farewell, meat” was and continues to be a historical festival of great scale and revelry running up to the religious fasting of Lent. Come to Venice and photograph the serene capital of the Doges, with its magnificent Palaces, museums, canals, and stately buildings with the added attraction of the Carnival festivities.

You will have the opportunity to discover..

* effective camera handling techniques
* low light /available light photography
* architectural studies, photographing detailed structures, canal scenes, palaces and piazzas
* artistic portrait compositions of masked revelers in full costumes, light effects and atmospheric scenes
* street photography techniques, mastering different lenses and lighting effects
* seeing in black and white
* fine-tuning your visual skills to produce a coherent series of images
* begin a personal portfolio of your best edited work
* basic digital photo-editing skills

Structure

The layout of our program takes the form of daily shoots with instruction on various creative and technical topics, followed by editing and a slideshow review with critical feedback for each participant. Participants will be encouraged to either adopt to shoot in color or b&w from the start and seriously focus on creating dramatic and strong visuals during their stay, and edit their images to a final 15 – 20 strongest photographs to present at the final review session.

Who is this for?

This workshop is suitable for the newbie, and those who are seeking to experiment with different settings on their digital cameras. As Venice is a confined city, this is a challenge to participants to be creative in their approach, and shoot individually as a travel photographer would. You will learn how to compose quickly in street situations, shoot in low light and experiment with architectural symbols as well as observe colour and shapes making full use of the low Winter light.

What to Bring

We encourage participants to bring digital cameras with interchangeable lenses, and a set of wide to medium telephoto lenses. As we are primarily focusing on the the Carnevale and street revelers, close quarter shooting will be the main order, hence wide angle to standard focal lengths will come in useful. Also, bring your own digital storage medium, like laptops and sufficient memory cards.

Accommodation

We recommend staying in small hotels on the periphery of the main tourist areas. During the Carnevale period, hotels tend to get full quickly and it we strongly suggest making early enquiries.

Travel

Travel to Venice is reasonably low cost with easy access from all major European cities. Low cost flights by Easyjet from London Gatwick, are available as well as fast trains to Venice Termini.

(10 % reduction to early registrants before 31 January 2010)

Please contact Steven or Andy for more information at info@explorenation.net

Photo coaches :
Steven Lee + 44 781 084 8470, Andy Craggs + 44 778 712 4832