On this 5 night/6 day adventure we'll be visiting some of the West Coast's most iconic scenes both day and night.
We'll be based at Riverstone House situated on the banks of the Taramakau River halfway  between Greymouth and Hokitika, owned and operated by yours truly. You'll have your own private king or queen bedroom with access to a full kitchen stocked with all the essentials, including continental breakfast supplies that you can help yourself to.

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The workshop commences at 12pm Thursday 3rd of October and concludes Tuesday 8th of October at 12pm.

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The exact schedule will be determined according to the whole group’s photographic objectives and the weather. I keep a flexible itinerary to accommodate this.

Places we may visit include the many beaches of The Great Coast Road including Motukiekie Beach, The Pancake Rocks in Punakaiki, The Pororari River. The bays of Lake Brunner and Lake Kaniere are also a photographers dream along with one of our waterfalls such as Coal Creek Falls, Dorothy Falls and Carew Creek Falls. Let's also not forget the world famous Hokitika Gorge.
 

You'll learn;

• How to plan your compositions using apps such as Photopills and light pollution maps

• How to focus at night when shooting astro

• Settings and methods specific to your gear and skill level

• Single frame exposure techniques 

• Blended exposure techniques 

• Milky Way panoramas (mosaics)

• Stacking 

• Post processing using Photoshop, Lightroom, plugins, PTGui,  Sequator and Starry Landscape Stacker.

• Long exposures using filters (during the day) if you have them

• Specific topics discussed and tutored will depend on group ability, skills and understanding.

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