3-DAY Star-Trails & Landscape Photography Workshop with Kaj Svensson

If you're looking for a hands on photography workshop, this is it! This workshop will provide the student, through a series of lectures, audio-visual presentations and night-time shooting field-trips, with an excellent foundation for navigating the heavens, shooting stars or star-trails, meteor showers and aurora borealis (the northern lights). “Light painting” techniques with a variety of flashlights, filters and snoots as well the use of multiple exposures will also be demonstrated for and practiced by the students in order to create amazing nightscape images. Plus two beautiful Landscape Photography location shoots!!

 

 

For millennia the night sky has fascinated people. Most of us love to gaze up and marvel at a rising moon, the stars, the Milky Way, or a meteor blazing across the sky on a warm summer evening while sitting around a campfire. For photographers this can provide an extremely interesting subject matter. With even the most modest cameras and lenses the various heavenly bodies can be very successfully photographed in a multitude of ways. Presently this type of photography is best done with color slide film or medium and large format color transparency films.

Star-trails are the recorded apparent movement of stars around the Pole Stars (Polaris, or the North Star, in the northern hemisphere) creating ever larger light arcs the further away a star is from the Pole Stars. Photography of this “earth-created” effect is a relatively simple technique. Combine this with other photographic techniques, such the use of double or multiple exposures or the use of artificial lights for “painting” a foreground, and even more intriguing nightscapes become possible.

Star-trails Workshop 3 Day Agenda

Friday evening (6PM - 12AM)
Lecture @ VPW Studio on composition, technical information, inspiration slideshow followed by an evening Star Trails shoot on location (Porteau Cove - subject to change).

Saturday (12NOON - 7PM)
Landscape Photography daytime & sunset shoot (Whytecliff Park & Lighthouse Park)

Sunday (10AM - 5PM)
In-class review and critique of images from shoots. Post-processing demo + Q&A.

 

 

Pre-Requisites

Level:

Should be comfortable with personal camera operation and basic photography principles such as Aperture, Shutter Speed, Depth of Field, etc.

Enrollment:

Maximum 12 participants.

What to Bring

Equipment Needed:

Bring your camera (Film or DSLR). Must have manual controls.
* TRIPOD - low light during Star Trails shoot requires a tripod (cable/ remote shutter release is optional)
If shooting 35mm Film, we recommend Fuji Provia 100.

We Provide:

Course Notes where applicable

Discounts

Early-Bird Discount:

Most of our courses and workshops offer a 10% discount is applied automatically if you register before the Early-Bird Discount deadline date listed in the registration table below.

Some courses and workshops offer a discount if you're among the first 3 people who register. This discount will replace the 'standard' Early Bird Discount mentioned above, and will be applied automatically during the online registration process (as long as it is available). Check the course/workshop listing page for more details.

Group Discount:

A 5% discount will be appplied if 3 or more people register at the same time for the same workshop. (All 3 tuitions must be paid for by one credit card to be considered a group registration.) Please follow the instructions on the online registration page.

Refunds

In order to provide the best learning environment possible VPW keeps class and tour sizes limited to 10-15 people (depending on the workshop). This is but one reason that we count on you to attend your chosen class or tour, once you have registered for it.

If you must withdraw for any reason please be aware of our refund policy as follows:

For our Local Lectures, Seminars, and Workshops valued at or under $100, VPW is unable to provide a cash refund. Transfers are limited to one transfer to either the same event at a later date, or a different event of equal value. VPW requires 48 hours written notice in order to make such a transfer (email notice is acceptable). The event you are transferring to must occur within 6 months of the original event you registered for. A $15 fee will be applied to all transfers.

For our Local Workshops, 1 to 5 days in length and our Local 4 to 10 Week Courses, VPW requires 30 days written notice (before the event start date) of your withdrawal in order to provide a refund. (Email notice is acceptable.)

For our Master Photographer Series workshops, 1 to 5 days in length, VPW requires 60 days written notice (before the workshop start date) of your withdrawal in order to provide a refund. VPW may retain 15% of fees paid or $150 minimum in processing your refund. If the tuition is less than $500 the minimum fee drops to $75.

Within 45 days of the Master Photographer Series workshop date all fees paid are non-refundable.

For our Photo Tours (national and international), the following charges will apply:

  • If you cancel up to 3 months before the tour start date and we can fill your space, your reservation (or deposit) fee will be refunded
  • There is no additional cancellation fee up to 8 weeks before the start of your tour
  • From 8 weeks to 4 weeks before the tour: 25% of your balance
  • From 4 weeks to 1 week before the tour: 50% of your balance
  • From 1 week to 72 hours before the tour: 75% of your balance
  • If you cancel within 72 hours of the start of the trip, no refund can be paid
  • Transaction charges incurred on accepting and refunding payments will be deducted from the refund amount
  • In the (unlikely) event that we cancel the Photo Tour, all monies paid will be refunded in full

We highly recommend that you take out travel insurance to guard yourself against monies lost due to unavoidable cancellation by either party.

Transfers (for all events over $100): If you wish to transfer to a different workshop date, VPW requires a minimum of 30 days written (email) notice. All transfers are based on availaibility, and subject to approval by VPW staff. For courses/workshops with tuition above $101, the transfer fee is $35.

Transfer Fees as based on event pricing:
Tuition of $100 and below, the transfer fee is $15
Tuition of $101 and above, the transfer fee is $35

VPW can give no refunds:

If you registered for any event valued at or under $100
If you do not show up for your registered course.
If you register for a course beyond or below your skill or ability level.

Refunds for all events valued at $101 and above (excluding Master Series Workshops):
If a student wishes to cancel their registration for any of VPW's events, and has provided written notice within the appropriate timeframe, a refund less a $50 administration fee will be provided.

Course Cancellation:

Occasionally, we may have to cancel a course due to low enrollment. In this case, we will issue a full refund of all monies paid to VPW up to that time.

Instructor Replacement:

In the event that a listed instructor is unable to participate because of a change in his or her professional schedule, we will replace the instructor with someone of equal or similar credentials. If we cannot find a replacement in due time before the course is about to start, a particular class may have to be rescheduled.

Liability

In the event that we cancel your course, for any reason, the extent of VPW's liability is limited to the return of all monies paid. We will do everything we can to register you in another equivalent course. VPW will not be responsible for reimbursement of travel expenses of any kind.

Please note: An administration charge of $50 applies to all refunds

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The Landscape Photography Workshop is taught by the following instructor:

Kaj Svensson
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Please choose your workshop date from the registration table below.

Class Dates Time Early-Bird Discount Ends Location Instructor Registration
Fri, Sat, Sat** Sept 12th, 13th & 14th, 2014 See Detailed Agenda First 3 Registrants will SAVE 10% VPW Studios Kaj Svensson SOLD OUT
Fri, Sat, Sat** Oct 2, 3 and 4, 2015 See Detailed Agenda First 3 Registrants will SAVE 10% Beaumont Studios Kaj Svensson Click Here to Register