ICELANDLAND OF FIRE & ICE 23 JUNE - 1 JULY 2018 8 DAY LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP Price €3500 (price based on single person sharing. Enquire for single room supplement) Group Size 6-10 Experience Beginner, amateur, enthusiast and semi-pro photographers Some hiking and hill walks that should be well within the capability of anyone with average fitness. Workshop Includes Landscape photography and shooting in unforgettable wild locations Three professional photographers & guides who know the area Transport around Iceland and to and from all of our shooting locations Post-processing workshops in Lightroom and Photoshop All accommodation in local hotels All meals provided Airport pick up and drop off Iceland is surely near the top of almost every photographers Finally we’ll head to the north of the country where the bucket list of places to shoot, and rightly so. The landscape stunning waterfalls of Dettifoss, Selfoss and Godafoss are here is utterly unique and offers the kind of scenes that you located as well as the geothermal plains of Hverir, an alien simply can’t witness anywhere else on earth. Glaciers and desert of multicoloured bubbling hot mud springs and waterfalls, black pebble beaches and jagged mountain steaming fumaroles. peaks, the diversity is seemingly endless and it’s the kind of trip where you can’t fail to be inspired by the epic nature of All our workshops are designed to ensure that you can the scenery. During June the golden hour, sunset, twilight and focus on photography while we take care of everything sunrise merge into each other lasting for hours, and all the else. Airport transfers, ideally located and comfortable elements are in place for truly unforgettable experience. accommodation as well as all your meals are all part of the package, and of course the tour is structured to We’ve created this workshop to give you plenty of time at maximize your opportunities to get great images whilst Iceland’s most beautiful and iconic places by basing ourselves improving your skills as a photographer. We use all our at three separate locations for a couple of nights each. Our experience and knowledge to get you to some of Iceland’s first base is in the south, from where we can shoot the famous most beautiful locations in the best light, and in the field black beach at Vík and Reynisfjara, the cliffs of the Dyrhólaey , we’re on hand to provide as much support, advice or the waterfalls of Skógafoss and Seljalandsfoss, and the eerie guidance as you want. Having three professional remains of the DC-3 stranded on Sólheimasandur beach. photography guides helps us to ensure that each However, there’s more to the area than that and we’ll take you participant gets plenty of one-to-one tuition and allows us to lesser known waterfalls and beaches during our time here. to better tailor each session to your needs as well as being able to optionally split the group, for example if a few Our next base is the southeast where the Vestrahorn’s peaks participants want to shoot from one end of the beach while rise impossibly from the black sand beach of Stokksnes and are others prefer to head up to the headland for a different mirrored in the tidal lagoons. The south east is also home to perspective. It also means we can accept range of Jökulsárlón, a lagoon full of icebergs which slowly drift into the experience levels from beginners to professionals and sea where many are washed up on the neighbouring comfortably cater to each. “Diamond beach”. Of course, we’ll also introduce you to some of the less commonly visited gems in the area. ITINERARY We tour the country basing ourselves at three locations, and while the dates that we’ll be in the bases are fixed, our time at each is flexible so we can decide which locations to visit while we’re there depending on the local weather and conditions. We will however ensure that we visit all of the locations in each area. At this time of year the golden hour starts around 22h00 and sunset around midnight. There’s then a period of twilight and blue hour before sunrise at around 3h, so to make sure that participants get the best conditions for shooting, we’ll concentrate our shooting in one long session between around 21h30 and 3h30. Shooting at this time also means we have even the more popular locations pretty much to ourselves outside of the main tourist hours. After the shooting session has finished we’ll head back to the accommodation and sleep, and to ensure people have plenty of time to rest and stay as fresh as possible throughout the course of the workshop there won’t be anything timetabled until brunch/lunch at 13h, and then in the afternoon we’ll have post processing workshops or travel to the next location. DAY 1 (JUNE 23) Arrive in Reykjavik. 17h onwards we’ll welcome guests to our overnight accommodation in Reykjavik, spend some time getting to know each other, and in the evening either head out to shoot some of the local landmarks around town like the Harpa concert hall, or if people aren’t too tired, make a longer excursion to shoot the powerful waterfalls at Gullfoss. DAY 2 & 3 - THE SOUTH (JUNE 24 - 25) 9h-11h After breakfast, we’ll get our stuff together to check out and head to our first base in the town of Vík on the south coast of Iceland. During our time here our itinerary will vary depending on weather and light, but we’ll make sure we spend some time at all of the locations in the area: •Vík church and beach •Reynisfjara black pebble beach and Dyrhólaey rock arch •Skógafoss waterfalls •Seljalandsfoss waterfalls For example, a typical itinerary could be: DAY 3 (JUNE 25) DAY 2 (JUNE 24) All morning to relax and catch up on sleep 13h30 -14h30 Lunch 13h30 -14h30 Lunch 15h - 17h30 Processing tutorials. An introduction to post 15h - 17h30 Our second post-processing session. Looking at processing with both Lightroom and Photoshop to ascertain getting the best from the images we took in last night’s session. people’s levels and requirements while looking at some of the This can range from Lightroom basics through to Photoshop images taken the previous evening Luminosity Masks and more advanced techniques, and will be tailored to your needs. 19h-20h Dinner in the hotel 19h-20h Dinner in the hotel 21h30 - 3h30 Shooting session at a range of nearby locations: • Late light near Vík church 21h30 - 3h30 Shooting session at a range of nearby locations: • Sunset photographing the ocean and rock stacks on Vík • Sunset at Seljalandsfoss waterfall and the nearby beach Gljúfrafoss, a small waterfall hidden in a canyon • Twilight and blue hour exploring the many possibilities for • Twilight and blue hour at the remains of the crashed DC-3 waterscapes on Reynisfjara beach and Dyrhólaey rock arch on Sólheimasandur beach • Sunrise at the rock stacks on the east of Reynisfjara beach • Sunrise at Skógafoss waterfall and the lesser known waterfalls nearby at Kvernufoss DAY 4 & 5 - THE SOUTH EAST (JUNE 26 - 27) 12h After getting plenty of sleep and breakfast, we’ll get our stuff together to check out and head to our second base near the town of Höfn, on the south east tip of Iceland. It’s around a 3 hour trip so we’ll stop for lunch on the way and we’ll also be passing some impressive landscapes as we cross the vast Skeidarársandur desert at the foot of the huge Vatnajökul glacier. Once again, during our time here our itinerary will vary depending on weather and light, but we’ll make sure we spend some time at all of the locations in the area: •Stokksnes headland beach and the peaks of the Vestrahorn •Jökulsarlon iceberg lagoon and nearby beach •Fjallsarlon iceberg lagoon For example, a typical itinerary could be: DAY 5 (JUNE 27) We’ll have all morning to relax and catch up on sleep DAY 4 (JUNE 26) 13h30 -14h30 Lunch 17h-18h Arrive at the hotel and relax as we settle into our new accommodation 15h - 17h30 Post-processing session. Once again we’ll look at getting the best from the images we took in last night’s session. 19h-20h Dinner in the hotel We’ll look at how we can increase participant’s knowledge and skill with Lightroom and Photoshop, and introduce more 21h30 - 3h30 Shooting session at Stokksnes headland. The complex techniques like Luminosity Masks. peaks of the Vestrahorn rise almost vertically out of the flat black sand beaches and there are infinite compositions and angles in 19h-20h Dinner in the hotel this astonishing place, from reflections in the lagoon to the grass topped dunes. The location is great at sunset but is particularly 21h30 - 3h30 Shooting session at a range of nearby locations: beautiful at sunrise as the first light illuminates the peaks. • Sunset at Jökulsarlon lagoon and the nearby beach. • Twilight and blue hour at the neighbouring iceberg lagoon of Fjallsarlon • Sunrise at the Jökulsarlon beach. DAY 6 & 7 - THE NORTH (JUNE 28 - 29) 12h After getting plenty of sleep and breakfast, we’ll get our stuff together to check out and head around to the north of the country to our final base near the town of Myvatn. It’s around a 5 hour trip, so we’ll stop for lunch on the way before arriving later in the afternoon. Once again, during our time here our itinerary will vary depending on weather and light, but we’ll make sure we spend some time at all of the locations in the area: •Dettifoss and Selfoss waterfalls •Hverir/Námaskard geothermal area •Godafoss waterfall •Aldeyjarfoss waterfall For example, a typical itinerary could be: DAY 7 (JUNE 29) We’ll have all morning to relax and catch up on sleep DAY 6 (JUNE 28) 13h30 -14h30 Lunch 17h-18h Arrive at the hotel and relax as we settle into our new accommodation 15h - 17h30 Final post-processing session.