Point Reyes & Marin Headlands
Lighthouses atop jagged cliffs, sunlight golden beaches, & foggy Golden Gate Bridge with our full immersion landscape photography workshops Point Reyes Seashore & Marin Headlands in California
The Point Reyes National Seashore and Marin Headlands are two of the more spectacular areas for photographers in the western United States. Jutting out into the Pacific Ocean, the Point Reyes National Seashore encompasses 71,028 acres of scenic landscapes. The grassy meadows in the northernmost part of the peninsula are maintained as a reserve for Tule elk, and the Point Reyes Lighthouse and rocky cliffs on the southern tip attract whale-watchers looking for the gray whales migrating north and south. In between lie expansive sand beaches that go as far as the eye can see, rugged rocky headlands, and forested ridges.
The Marin Headlands is the hilly peninsula at the southernmost end of Marin County, located just north of San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge. The Headlands can create their own clouds when moist, warm Pacific Ocean breezes are pushed into the higher colder air, causing condensation and fog. The Marin Headlands contain three of the locations we’ll be exploring on this workshop: Rodeo Beach, Point Bonita Lighthouse, and the Golden Gate Bridge.
3 Night Stay / 2.5 Training Days
Dates: April 19-21, 2019
Basecamp: Inverness, California
Class Size: 3 to 6 Students
Tuition: $1,095
What to Expect
- Shooting Locations – Point Reyes Lighthouse, South Beach Overlook, Drakes Beach, Kehoe Beach, Alamere Falls, Rodeo Beach, Point Bonita Lighthouse, Golden Gate Bridge.
This full immersion landscape photography workshop is going to be all about photography. Your photography. Our workshops include a unique blend of (1) capture time in the field, (2) guided hikes, (3) 4x4 travel to remote locations, and (4) class time for post-production instruction.
The majority of our days will start early, before sunrise. After a quick cup of coffee or tea, we’ll be off to get into position at a location in the best light of the day with breakfast in the field in order to maximize our shooting time. We’ll often continue until mid-to-late morning before heading back to Basecamp.
Back at Basecamp, we’ll have time for off-loading memory cards, classroom lectures & instruction , working on our images, one-on-one guidance, or time to relax. Then, in the mid-to-late afternoon, we’ll head out again to capture the evening skies, getting the most out of the sunset and/or shooting the stars in the night sky.
More important than just getting you to some of the best and most remote areas of the park at the best times of the day, this five-day photo expedition will challenge you to take your photography to the next level and to develop your own photographic voice.
In the Field:
Out in the field, we’ll explore different approaches to scene visualization, ground/sky/sea compositions, and how to manage complex highlight and shadow scenes using techniques such as dynamic bracketing, focus stacking, framing, and neutral density filters.
In the Classroom:
In the classroom, we’ll spend time developing your post-production workflow – learning when Lightroom is enough and when you need to move your work into Photoshop – using techniques such as luminosity masks to create and solve contrast, color, and blending issues.
Tuition & Payment Terms
What’s Included in Your Tuition:
- Group rate on your lodging
- Field meals and snacks
- All ground transportation during the workshop
- Workshop course materials
- In-the-field photographic training
- Post-production classes
What’s Not Included in Your Tuition:
- Transportation to/from the Basecamp
- Lodging
- Meals
- Registrations are accepted on a first-come, first serve basis up to a maximum of 6 students.
- A deposit of $500 or payment-in-full guarantees your registration for the workshop. The entire tuition must be paid 60 days prior to the start of class; failure to complete payment may be treated as your cancellation. Need special payment arrangements for your deposit? No problem, just contact us.
- Should you need to cancel, you must cancel 60 days prior to class or you will lose your deposit. Please review our Terms and Conditions for additional information regarding our cancellation and refund policies.
- Registrations made 60 days or less prior to the start of a workshop must be paid in full and are subject to the same cancellation policies stated herein.
- If we need to cancel a workshop for some reason you will be given a 30-day notice and receive a full refund of all payments.
- Please do not make air travel arrangements for a workshop until checking with us first.
- All of our standard Terms and Conditions apply.
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Qualifications
- You must (1) bring all your own camera equipment, (2) have complete knowledge of how to use your camera equipment, and (3) be reasonably proficient with both Lightroom & Photoshop. With such a full curriculum, we simply won’t have time to teach people how to use their cameras or software programs.
- Participants should be in reasonably good physical condition and should be able to comfortably walk several miles a day on uneven terrain.
Equipment Needed
- Laptop with both Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop installed & registered with Adobe Cloud
- DSLR or Mirrorless Camera
- Tripod
- Camera backpack
- Lens cleaners
- Extra batteries & chargers
- Extra SD & CF cards
- Lenses – a variety of wide angle zoom such as a16-35mm, a mid-range of 24-70mm, and an intermediate telephoto of 70-200mm
- Flash units (optional)
- Filters – polarizers and neutral density (optional)
- Remote Switch/Controller (optional)
- External drives/storage as necessary
