Wooloomooloo bay to Sydney Opera House
- Duration: 3 Hours (approx.)
- Location: Sydney, NSW
Overview
All of our workshops focus on the basic principles you need to enter the inspired world of creative photography. We move in small groups of 8 so you will receive plenty of one to one coaching in photography techniques and instructions on how to experiment with your camera functions.
About the adventure
This is one of Sydneys less frequented walking paths. We begin on an eastern facing boardwalk, looking into Wooloomooloo marina, full of elegant yachts and then looking out over the Naval base. This area presents us with hidden surprises as we venture on toward Mrs Macquarie's Chair. You will enjoy exploring this stretch of the foreshore and will definitely want to return. There are hours of opportunity for creative photography . This is an easy walk even with a tripod. We stop off at significant spots along the adventure some heavily visited and others hardly known about. One of the things you will learn on this workshop are photographic methods to make interesting pictures even when shooting a tourist hotspot. Your professional photo guide will share special FX techniques and professional methodology all along the adventure. Our destination is the very photogenic Sydney Opera House. We will take you to one of the best views of this dramatic icon which sits on the tip of Bennalong point. You will produce photographs you will want to gift to family and friends. You could join this adventure multiple times and still shoot uniques images every time. Learn how to observe light, shape, perspective and people. You will also learn the important skill of composition and timing to express and communicate ideas in your photographs.
Who is this adventure for?
Perfect for beginners, travellers, street photographers, walkers, explorers, historians, city workers, pretty much anyone interested in creative photography.
We will encourage you and help you experiment with your photos You will feel empowered by your own ideas resulting in confidence as a photographer. Our goal is to enable you to understand how to apply a photographers mindset to make your camera create unique photographs which you can turn into art for your home or books that tell great stories.
Get yourself out there, into the life you want to photograph. Its healthy and it will make you happy. We will show you how to see new opportunities and best of all how to read light, capture light and control light.
This is an adventure workshop which will inspire you and move you closer towards creative thinking.
Special note
On this photo adventure we have the opportunity to use our tripods as well as filters. If you have a lightweight tripod and filters like ND filters or Circular polarising filters bring them along with you. If you dont and would like to know where to get gear from contactus@weareobservers.com as we can recommend reliable local retailers.
Develop these skills
- Creative photographers mindset
- Working with a tripod
- Working with filters
- Working around heavily populated tourist hubspots
- Tips to improve your street photography
- Tips to improve your travel photography
- Tips and tricks that professional photographers use
- How to explore an area and find vantage spots
- Easy experiments for creative photography
- Camera / exposure features
- Timing your photos
- Working with your point of interest
- Composition and framing methodology
- General good habits for creative photographers
- Learn about light and how to use it to your advantage
- How to experiment and develop your ideas.
