Wildlife and natural history photography

This practical, hands-on course will touch on all aspects of wildlife photography. You will be taught how to use both your camera and your artistic side to take the very best photographs. We will explore the use of light, timing and hard work to improve your images. Some digital imaging will be covered if time allows, but this is primarily a photographic course, not a Photoshop one. It is likely that some birds of prey will be brought along for you to photograph in flight, posing interesting and testing technical challenges but also resulting in very impressive images!

What to bring:

Ideally bring (borrow if necessary) a digital SLR and a 70-300mm or similar lens (a larger lens is good but they are of course expensive and heavy!) If you are hiring then a 100-400mm or 80-400mm lens would be perfect. A tripod would be useful, as would kneepads (decorators’ kneepads are fine) for low down work.

Please note: This is a wildlife photography course so please be patient in the event that the wild creatures don’t turn up exactly where and when we’d like them to.