About the event

Join expert tutor Adrian Davies for this workshop to capture close-up images of plants and insects and see them in a new light and scale! This workshop concentrates on close-up and macro photography techniques and is designed for more experienced photographers using DSLR, mirrorless or compact cameras.

Adrian will include the following topics:

• Close-up basics
• Depth of Field
• Equipment considerations
• Lighting

He will also cover these more advanced techniques:

Macro photography
Focus stacking

Venue:

The venue is a lovely old orchard with a wealth of plants and insects. If weather permits we will run a moth trap the evening before to give us some specimens to photograph.

Equipment list:

Camera (DSLR or mirrorless preferred, though a bridge camera and many compact models can work well)

• Macro/close-up lens, wide angle lens
• Tripod
• Charged battery/ies
• Memory cards
• Flash gun

Any other accessories you have that might be useful e.g. reflectors

Please don’t worry if you don’t have any or all of the above. It is an indicative list. You may be attending the course as a way of finding out what you need to get.

Tutor Profile: Adrian Davies

Adrian Davies is a wildlife and natural history photographer, author and highly experienced lecturer. He was one of the first people in the UK to use a digital camera over 20 years ago (the mighty Kodak DCS100!) and has been an advocate of digital imaging ever since. He has run workshops for organizations such as Nikon, the British Institute of Professional Photographers, the Royal Photographic Society, the Field Studies Council, the Royal Horticultural Society and numerous others. He co-wrote, with Phil Fennessy, one of the first text books on digital imaging (Electronic Imaging for Photographers, 1994) a title which ran to 4 editions. He has since written several other books and dozens of articles for various magazines.

Adrian has been photographing all aspects of wildlife and natural history for over 30 years, both in the UK and abroad. Increasingly, he is covering environmental issues such as the effects of global warming, and the effect of alien species in the British countryside. He is also currently looking at how plants and other natural history subjects appear in ultraviolet light, and is in the latter stages of writing a book on Digital Ultraviolet and Infrared Photography His pictures have appeared in hundreds of books and magazines. 

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