Richard Young has designed and developed this week-long winter retreat to allow you to immerse yourself in developing your style and composition skills. The retreat’s goal is to help you develop and refine your approach to self-expression and style, hone your compositional skills and produce some stunning fine art prints that showcase your unique style and vision.

Richard, along with landscape photographers Glen Howey and Spencer Clubb, will lead a series of talks and tuition that will challenge your approach to nature and the landscape and teach you skills that enable you to grow and evolve as a photographer.

At sunset and sunrise each day, you will head out in 4WD vehicles to create new work as you explore your approach to landscape photography. From mastering the wide vista to producing intimate landscape images, you’ll have the opportunity to revisit the same locations and build a collection of work that can ultimately be crafted into a portfolio showcasing your unique style and vision. 

STYLE & COMPOSITION 

On the retreat, you’ll experience some immersive and inspiring learning opportunities via a series of keynote talks on developing style and refining composition. You’ll also learn about specialised shooting techniques to control perspective and master the creative use of depth of field to expand your modes of self-expression. We'll work through a series of exercises designed to challenge your shooting style, and Richard and Glen will run a dedicated session focused on helping you to critique and print your work. 

KEYNOTE TALKS

• Developing a style - Finding & refining your style 
• Power of projects - Using projects to drive your work
• Consequences of composition - Learning to see compositions
• Art of refinement - Refining the landscape to your view
• Challenging perspective - The art of lens choice
• Advanced shooting techniques - Tilt-shift lenses & focus stacking 
• Finding flow in the landscape - Learning how to use flow lines

 WHO IS THE RETREAT FOR?

Learning the technical side of photography is relatively easy and can be done so with a textbook approach. Style and composition, however cannot be mastered by a set of rules; first you need to unlock who you are as a photographer and what you wish to express, this will then justify the shooting style and your compositional choices. To achieve this, the technical side of photography needs to be second nature. 

THE LOCATION

Set in one of the most stunning winter locations featuring grand mountain vistas, alpine lakes, beautiful rivers and elegantly placed trees within the landscape. This retreat offers the ideal locations within which you can refine your individual style and explore different ways of working within the landscape as a photographer.

PRICE INCLUDES

• 6 keynote talks by Richard Young
• Printed note sheets
• Epson P906 printer onsite
• Epson Signature Worthy Paper
• Four 13x19" fine art prints
• Work/test prints over the week
• Online Landscape Course
• 7 days of photography tuition
• Remote winter 4WD shoots
• 6 nights single lodge room
• 6 dinners, 6 breakfasts, 4 lunches
• Christchurch Airport pickup/drop off
• Donation to ecological restoration
• Native tree planting to carbon offset

For full details and retreat content, visit:  https://photographyworkshops.co.nz/tour/style-and-composition-winter-retreat/