Workshops
Both practical and inspirational, our workshops have a single aim: helping people to take better landscape photographs.
The topics we cover include...
Developing an ‘eye’ for a picture.
Learning to ‘see’ like the camera ‘sees’.
‘Reading’ the landscape.
Using a tripod.
Fine-tuning composition.
Seeing the ‘big picture’, while getting the details right.
Becoming more receptive to changing light.
Controlling exposure: moving from ‘auto’ to ‘manual’.
Getting the shot you want, in the camera (not just ‘repairing the damage’ with Photoshop).
Working with camera limitations... turning shortcomings into opportunities.
Balancing light sources.
ISO settings.
Staying in the 'here and now'.
And a few apparent contradictions to conjure with...
Instead of chasing pictures, let them come to you.
Instead of fixating on the camera, let the camera disappear.
Trust your unconscious mind. It knows what to do.
Slow down... get more pictures.
Stop thinking, start shooting.
Don’t work... play!
A camera doesn't know what we want. Instead of putting so much faith in technology, perhaps we should trust our own abilities to read a landscape, see a picture and make the necessary adjustments ourselves. If Lance Armstrong hadn’t got there first, with his book, It’s Not About The Bike, we could have said that Magnetic North workshops were ‘not about the camera’.
Interested? Intrigued? Then check the details of our forthcoming workshops: Keld in Swaledale, the limestone landscapes of Malham, and Rydal, in the heart of the Lake District.
The topics we cover include...
Developing an ‘eye’ for a picture.
Learning to ‘see’ like the camera ‘sees’.
‘Reading’ the landscape.
Using a tripod.
Fine-tuning composition.
Seeing the ‘big picture’, while getting the details right.
Becoming more receptive to changing light.
Controlling exposure: moving from ‘auto’ to ‘manual’.
Getting the shot you want, in the camera (not just ‘repairing the damage’ with Photoshop).
Working with camera limitations... turning shortcomings into opportunities.
Balancing light sources.
ISO settings.
Staying in the 'here and now'.
And a few apparent contradictions to conjure with...
Instead of chasing pictures, let them come to you.
Instead of fixating on the camera, let the camera disappear.
Trust your unconscious mind. It knows what to do.
Slow down... get more pictures.
Stop thinking, start shooting.
Don’t work... play!
A camera doesn't know what we want. Instead of putting so much faith in technology, perhaps we should trust our own abilities to read a landscape, see a picture and make the necessary adjustments ourselves. If Lance Armstrong hadn’t got there first, with his book, It’s Not About The Bike, we could have said that Magnetic North workshops were ‘not about the camera’.
Interested? Intrigued? Then check the details of our forthcoming workshops: Keld in Swaledale, the limestone landscapes of Malham, and Rydal, in the heart of the Lake District.
