Palm Coast
Dates: TBD / 4 Hours
Activity Level: Easy
Guests: 6 or fewer
Workshops
What to Expect: During warm weather, this is my favorite place to shoot. Wearing sandals or going bare foot in the sand is a great change from slogging around in the humid forests or swamps. As with any coastal region, the conditions can change rapidly and the cloud forecast is very unreliable. Nevertheless, you will learn the area and scout out compositions that you can return to shoot in many different conditions.
Itinerary: We will meet at the parking lot at least 30 minutes prior to sunrise. If everyone is there we will set out as early as possible, but no later than 15 minutes before sunrise in order to scout for sunrise compositions. I have planned to capture the early morning colors in the sky. If you happen to be running late, you will still have an opportunity to catch up to us, but in order to capitalize on the morning light the group will leave strictly on time. Once we shoot the sunrise composition we will continue to shoot and explore different compositions. Conditions can change rapidly on the coast, and it is often the case that a composition that was not usable at sunrise becomes great around an hour later. Overall, there will be abundant opportunities for making compositions, as well as allowing time for getting creative. No one will come away with the exact same shot, rather everyone will come away with unique images that suit each individual’s style.
What’s Included: The duration will be approximately 3 hours from the time we set out until we arrive back to our cars. You will be guided through every step of the photographic process from camera settings, composition, and even advanced techniques when applicable. For beginners, I have a very helpful blog that I strongly encourage you to dive into before embarking on this journey as you will be able to make the most out of the time on the trail. I will guide you to key compositions that I have shot in the past. Shooting in this kind of environment has many challenges, so I will share with you my many mistakes and lessons learned. We will have the flexibility to spread out and engage various scenes independently instead of grouping together on a single composition. This allows for each individual to get into a creative flow with the peace of mind of having an instructor nearby to help when needed.
Additionally, I have decided that because post-processing is such a key aspect of modern photography that I will provide an hour of post-processing consultation at no additional cost. This will be scheduled at a later date (recommended 1 - 2 weeks after the workshop). You will see the workflow I go through in editing the shots taken from that workshop. This will be a one-time offering per workshop. All together the hike plus the post-processing session will come out to around 4 hours.
