Our intensive one-day seminar teaches the most important techniques and strategies we've learned since becoming full-time professional nature photographers decades ago. We've traveled the world, shooting more than two-million nature images during that time, so we teach with extensive in-the-field experience. We switched completely to digital in 2003 and never looked back. Digital offers everyone numerous unexpected opportunities for making fine images.
This seminar emphasizes how to photograph birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies, ferns, wildflowers, landscapes, reflections, frost, dew, fog, spider webs, waterfalls, and much more. All of our instruction is carefully designed to help you capture stunning nature images easily and efficiently. Our seminar is different from many because we teach you how to shoot the best possible image in the camera, not how to "fix" it later in the digital darkroom.
This seminar is carefully designed to show you how to shoot superb nature images. Solving the problems encountered by nature photographers in the field is highlighted throughout the day. We project more than 600 images to illustrate key points you must learn to easily capture stunning images.
Our speciality is teaching you how to shoot terrific images shot after shot. We explain our easy-to-do and highly effective "shooting workflow" in detail. Our working methods include a combination of back-button focusing, manual metering, using the RGB histogram for perfect exposures, fill-flash, main flash, balanced flash, background and perspective control, live view strategies, HDR, and stress techniques for creating critically sharp images.
To help you learn everything you need to know, you'll receive detailed seminar notes at the door covering all of the instructional programs presented. These written notes include key points made in the seminar, so you won't have to write them down, and many other useful tips.
We enjoy speaking with our participants and sharing our nature photography expertise at close range. We prefer small seminar groups of 150 or less, to easily interact with you and share our ideas. Everyone is close to us as we stand on each side of the screen pointing out important concepts in the projected images. This permits us to offer an atmosphere that is similar to being invited into our living room for a day of heart-to-heart discussion about what works and what doesn't work in the quest to capture quality images. We hope you will join us now, as it will be a few years before we return again! It's a rewarding day. Your photography skills will improve greatly.
