Margaret River Photography Course

Serena and I would LOVE the opportunity to share my love of destination photography with you in a fun and exciting way on this brilliant, fun 3 day tour. My driving passion is to get you to the RIGHT PLACES at the RIGHT TIME. That way you'll get THE BEST photographs possible.

■ Learn how to use your digital camera properly

■ All your camera's buttons, functions, menus & set up

■ Composition, light, viewpoint, angles, lens perspective

■ Aperture, shutter speed, depth of field, file sizes RAW and JPEG

■ ISO setting, white balance, exposure compensation, basic editing

■ Portraiture, landscapes, still life, motion, architecture, nature

■ The town of Margaret River with a focus on shooting architecture, quaint shops and cafes

■ Learn how to use every feature of your digital camera to the full

■ 10 workshops over 2 days covering: What gear, camera handling

■ Photo reportage, food & wine, landscapes, portraits, action

■ Lifestyle, nature, architecture, image display

■ On location studio and lighting setups

■ Use of light on water, clouds, silhouettes, shadows, twilight

■ Post production tips for screen and print usage

■ A smartphone, compact, mirror-less and/ or a DLSR camera

■ Learn how to use every feature on your digital camera to the full

■ Covers lens and linear perspective, depth of field

■ White balance & filters, balancing interior/exterior light, flash tips

■ Capturing motion, unusual viewpoints & tilting

■ Portraiture, landscapes, still life, motion, architecture, nature, wildlife

■ Reflections, heat & dust, snow & cold, the essence of a region

■ Post-production tips, how to create montages and an e-book

■ Interactive, dynamic, fun. Hands-on shooting & telling your travel story

■ No previous photographic experience required

■ A smartphone, compact, mirror-less and/ or a DLSR camera

■ If you have a drone bring it. The perfect course for practicing your drone photography

■ Memory Card(s): we recommend at least a 16GB card for each session of shooting

■ Charged camera battery and a spare if you have one

■ A wide-angle is useful for landscapes. A telephoto for wildlife

■ Your travel itinerary and camera instruction book

Time	10am to 5pm
Location	Blue Ginger cafe -7/31 Station Rd, Margaret River WA 6285
Meeting Point	Blue Ginger cafe -7/31 Station Rd, Margaret River - inside cafe

Why is Margaret River such a great place to run a photography course?
In one word - variety! Margaret River and its premium wine region is the place for indulging many passions. It's the only wine region in Australia where you can hop from award-winning wineries and restaurants to stunning beaches, tall-timber forests, world-class surf breaks and ancient caves.... Situated just a few hours drive from Perth, the region offers a huge selection of world-class wineries, gourmet food and boutique accommodation making it ideal for a romantic getaway, weekend escape and to run our 2 day Travel Photography weekend course.

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Why do our Margaret River two day course?
Improoving your photography skills and have a fantastic time doing so.
■ You need to learn how to use your camera properly before hitting the road or getting on a plane. How various settings and modes will deliver the results you want. Fast moving wildlife is ideal in Shutter priority mode, Aperture priority is essential for macro and landscape photography. You need to know about exposure compensation in white, bright snow & beach scenes, about focussing points to isolate a monk in a crowded market scene. A quality smartphone will deliver outstanding results and be unobtrusive in a crowded Indian market, a drone is perfect for capturing Australia's stunning coastline.

■ Integrity: compiled by working professional travel & tourism photographers. We are authoritative, consummate professionals in both shooting and teaching travel & tourism photography - NOT 'armchair' experts

■ Experience: this one day course has been created by Andrew & Serena who have trained tens of thousands of students through their one and two day Travel Photography courses running in throughout Australia. They are also authors of the worldwide selling Online Travel Photography course. Andrew & Serena have racked up 112 joint countries they have travelled to and photographed. They are consummate travel photography experts

■ Knowledge is power. You are spending a huge amount for a trip of a lifetime - a cruise to Antarctica, an African wildlife safari, a cultural tour on the Silk Road. You have some good gear. Its not good to not know the essentials about travel photography and more about the conditions you will encounter - the weather, restrictions & local laws, the best time of day, an idea of what you want to photograph. This course will fast track you into the world of travel photography

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Is the course suitable for me?
■ Suitable for everyone. For any traveller at whatever skill level they are at. The detailed notes are pertinent for any traveller. The practical workshops at various location demonstrate various tips such as reflections & starbursts. The tips on light and composition are relevant for any photographer.

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How many people will be on my course?
■ A maximum of 8 persons for a highly personalised learning experience. This ensures plenty of one on one attention

■ However we do cater for larger groups bringing in other tutors and splitting the groups into teams. Talk to us about your special requirements such as a 'team building' Travel Photography course for a government organisation or company.

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What about accommodation, transport and food?
Inclusions:
Transportation in our Toyota Prado 4WD or similar or a minibus (depending on numbers) for the weekend.
You of course are welcome to use your own vehicle for transportation throughout the weekend
Water for travelling between locations
Entry fees into the Race Day
Camping fees for one night in Menzies or Lake Ballard
Comprehensive photographic instruction from 2 professional photographers


Not Included:
Accommodation.
This is a busy time due to the events happening over this Race Week event and accommodation books out quickly! Due to the early start on Day 1 it is recommended that accommodation be booked for the night before (Wed 2 October) and the last night (Sat 5 Oct October). We will be camping out at Menzies or Lake Ballard on the Thursday night (cost included in your booking). We do have a couple of large tents and a few air mattresses and sleeping bags spare, but bring them if you have them.

Accommodation options:

■ The Albion Hotel (also in Boulder) with ensuite bathrooms for approx $155-$200/night per room. http://www.albionshamrock.com.au/accommodation
■ The Rydges Hotel - approx $200/night per room https://www.rydges.com/accommodation/regional-wa/kalgoorlie/
■ Contact the Kalgoorlie Visitors Centre on http://www.kalgoorlietourism.com/accommodation

OTHER EXCLUSIONS
■ Meals are not included with the exception of chilled bottled water over the 3 days
■ Insurance - it is strongly recommended that you have an insurance policy in case of accidents
■ Items of a personal nature and alcohol
■ Transport to/from Kalgoorlie-Boulder before and after the tour dates
TRANSWA offers a great daily train service to Kalgoorlie from Perth (7 hrs) with return tickets starting at approx $90 on the Prospector Train. Visit their website http://www.transwa.wa.gov.au/Plan-your-journey/The-Prospector
VIRGIN and QANTAS both have flights to/from Kalgoorlie-Boulder

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Do I have the right camera gear for this weekend course?
■ This course is suitable for amateurs and hobbyists to serious semi-pro photographers alike  



■ Any full or cropped frame DSLR camera, mirrorless camera, quality compact or smartphone is ideal. Full frame cameras with their bigger sensors will give better results if for instance you are on a Namibian landscape oriented holiday 

■ A wide angle lens eg 16-35mm (on a full frame camera) ,10-22mm (on a cropped sensor camera); a telephoto lens eg. 70-300mm or 70-200mm; a mid range lens eg 24-105mm or 28-70mm. A 50mm f1.8  is small, cheap and great to have in your kit. Although lenses like the 18-270mm appear to be good as an all-rounder travel lens they can be soft at the wide angle end

■ An on-camera flash unit is useful if you are travelling light

■ You do not need an external flash for this course. If weight is not a problem such as in a 4WD Outback adventure - then throw in an external Speedlite flash and your heavy lenses. If you are travelling around Europe and want to travel light - take a quality compact and/or a lighter mirrorless camera system

■ We highly recommend you bring a smartphone on this course. A perfect travel companion to grab those impromptu shots or to take great images in their own right. We can also share images around using Bluetooth

■ You do not need a tripod for this course. On the road take a lightweight tripod, beanbag or a Gorillapod 

■ Memory Card(s): we recommend at least an 8 GB card for this 7 hour course (on the road take lots of memory cards)

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What are some of the places we visit and photograph?
Some of the great locations and wineries visited include Aravina winery, Swallow winery, Watershed Winery, Voyager Estate, Hay Shed Hill Winery, Margaret River Chocolate Company, Olio Bello Olive Oil Company, Margaret River Dairy Company, Redgate Beach Blowholes, Hamelin Bay, Boranup Forest, Limestone caves, Canal Rocks, Sugarloaf Rocks, Leeuwin- Naturaliste National Park, Cape Leeuwin National Park, Margaret River, Prevelly, Gnarabup and Yallingup. On every course we discover another location gem or winery and are totally flexible as to where we go.

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Thank you for photographing or 43 staff members over the quoted 7 hours. You must be exhausted . Everyone seemed very happy and liked how you showed them the head shots as you were shooting. Can you get them to use by Thursday please? Talk soon

--Irina Fedorova

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Great to meet you. Christie and I love your work. We think that the 4 attached, at this phase of our project would fit well and we would be keen to see if any of these would be able to be blown up to a large wall art format.

--Kate Hopwood | Head of Design

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As director of a company which represents hundreds of professional photographers running courses around Australia its always a pleasure dealing with Andrew and Focus 10. They run highly professional Australia wide photography courses and from the feedback from my clients they do a great job, they are reliable and honest and always do the right thing by their clients - we highly recommend them.

-- Paul Middleton | Director

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Hi Andrew... Thanks for a fantastic day today. I'm keen to do the SLR 2 and night photography, please let me know dates. Thanks again!

--Alex Jucovic

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Andrew did a great job with his aerial photography of our property in Bathurst and saved us a lot of money with the inspection of our powerline insulators

--Steve Wilton| Business Manager

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Thanks again for your work at our conference. We were all very pleased.

Got back to the office yesterday and we received via Dropbox all the amazing photographs you took. You captured everthing- the keynote speakers, the sailing events, the party. We will definitely be using you again when we are next in Australia

-- Karen Seidman

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Focus 10 recently ran a incentive, team building program for us called 'A day in the life at ING'. Their organisation and expertise was impeccable handling over 240 of our staff over 3 days. We think highly of Focus 10 and have a relationship spanning 15 years.

--Tony Hattley / regional manager

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Great job shooting the Bronte Flight Centre! Looks like they our client is bailing out at the right time .. retail strips are not going to be hot sellers in the near future. Are you able to send me hi-res of just the external whole building shots please? Thanks

--Hugh McGlone / Marketing Manager

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