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 REGISTRATION CLOSED
Basecamp: Inverness, California
Class Size: 4-6 Students
Tuition: $1,095
Deposit: $500
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) 4×4 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
All of our standard Payment Terms apply.
