Photography News Issue 45

Photography News | Issue 45 | absolutephoto.com

Photo days out

Create Away

Aperture Tours

Light and Land

CreateAway is a specialist photo tour company, based in the Camargue region of France. Staffed by a passionate team of photographers and local experts, tours from Create Away provide fantastic opportunities and exclusive access to some of Europe’s most photogenic locations. Available all year round, there’s a broad spread of subjects covered, fromwildlife and landscapes to action and street photography, but one of the star attractions is Camargue’s famous wildwhite horses. You can capture these majestic creatures, as well as black bulls and pink flamingos on the Camargue Wildlife tour, a five-day experience priced £1987. For landscape fans, there’s the equally iconic lavender fields and sunflowers of Provence on the Provence Villages, Lavender & Sunflowers tour, lasting seven days at £1999. Visit: create-away.com Phone: +44 203 642 2448 Email: info@create-away.com

Visit: lightandland.co.uk Phone: 01747 824727 Email: admin@lightandland.co.uk

Visit: Aperturetours.com Phone: +33 6 1708 5445 Email: contact@ aperturetours.com

If you’re an action photographer in search of something a bit different, how about the Super Yachts Photo Tour, featuring beautiful traditional wooden yachts competing in the regatta at Saint-Tropez, with exclusive up-close access from a chase boat, at £2950 for a six-day trip. All trips include airport transfers, all transportation required during your course and hotel accommodation with breakfast.

Created in 1994, Light and Land was the brainchild of the acclaimed photographersCharlieWaiteandSueBishop,whointheinterveningyears have passed their advice and enthusiasm to countless photographers all over the world – crucially at some of the planet’smost stunning locations. Light and Land offers a complete package of photography tours, from one-day workshops to residential tours in the UK and beyond. All skill levels are catered for, too. 25 years and over 2000 worldwide tours later the team of tutors now also includes well-known photographers such as Joe Cornish, Antony Spencer, Phil Malpas, CliveMinnitt andmanymore. A selection of upcoming tours includes UK-centred trips shooting Astrophotography in the Exmoor National Park, the beautiful, unspoilt scenery of Exmoor, the Yorkshire Dales and spectacular Snowdonia, an area of towering mountains, rugged valleys and beautiful natural lakes. As for the more exotic trips, how about shooting frozen Greenland, Bruges andGhent in the crispwinter sunlight, or the desolate Cappadocia in Turkey. City tours are also catered for with the likes of New York and Budapest. Trips sell out fast, so check the website to see what’s available and book as soon as you can.

London Photo Walks

Visit: london-photo-walks.co.uk Phone and email: via website

London Photo Walks does exactly what it says on the tin. Sign up and you’ll soon be shooting people and architecture while benefiting from in-depth photography tuition. Tours are open to all skill levels, so whether you’re starting out with your camera, or just looking for inspiration, you’ll walk away with some fantastic photographs. There are three main tours: ‘Highlights’ is a 4.5 hour experience taking London landmarks, like Buckingham Palace, St Paul’s, Tower Bridge and more, ending in a 45 minute night shoot; ‘City & the East’ also lasts 4.5 hours and packs in architecture and street photography, giving a real Londoner’s viewof the city, viaGreenwich, CanaryWharf, the East End and the City; ‘Night’ is focused on low-light opportunities, covering everything you need to know about photographing a city at night. Each tours runs twice a week and cost £39 per person.

Aperture Tours specialises in giving photographers unbridled access to superb views and new perspectives on well-known scenes. The company runs well-established trips to European hotspots like Paris, Milan, Venice, Verona, Berlin, Lisbon and London, as well as further flung destinations like Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore. Run throughout the year, trips take in local festivals, so for example, there’s an upcoming trip Paris to coincide with Bastille Day on 14 July, and the annual firework display that accompanies it. The trip will provide some amazing opportunities, especially around the Eiffel Tower. On that trip, and many of the others, you’ll be accompanied by seasoned photographers Alexander J.E. Bradley and William Lounsbury, both of whom will be teaching the techniques of shooting fireworks, and shooting from a superb vantage point where with an unobstructed view of the event. Like Aperture’s other events groups are kept small, so there’s plenty of time for questions and learning opportunities. Food and drink are included, and at €90 for the chance to shoot some amazing images, it’s a bargain.

Camden Park Studios

Visit: Camdenparkstudios.com Phone: 0207 267 9550 Email: hire@camdenparkstudios.com

If you’ve ever shot in a studio, you’ll know that some make it easier than others. Space and organisation can make a shoot much smoother, letting you concentrate on the creative side and get better pictures. If you’re in the London area, Camden Park Studios offers all this and more, with excellent transport links. Built as a church in 1869, the interior’s floorspace and ceiling heights allow lots of possibilities for lighting your next portrait shoot. There’s a large and small studio with the former providing 1500square feet

of space and impressive 19ft 6in high beams; even the small studio is still 420square feet,witha 12ft 6inceiling. And though you’ll enjoy shooting plain backdrops with the studio’s white-painted 4x10.5m sweep, the wooden floors and exposed brick walls add versatility. Studio hours are from Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm (but you can shootweekends by request), and rates start at £300 for a full day in the small studio, and £300 for a half day in the large studio. Both rooms can be hired for a full day for £600.