Malvern Photography Workshop

This Saturday I led a small group photography workshop in Malvern around the St Ann's Well area. We had a great time and just about managed to beat the weather.
We started off gently down the bottom of the hills and then worked our way up, catching some lovely views like this on the way.

I like to shoot landscapes vertically. You still get to convey everything you want from the scene and I think using a long lens shows off the miles and miles of scenery as well as the Abbey in the foreground.


Just enough sun on the way up to play with some starbursts through the trees.


Then after lunch Chloe joined us and was a great model (as always) for the portraiture component of the day. Here's a few of my favourites.



Lots of opportunities for good portrait settings and backgrounds in just a tiny area of the hills.



Couldn't decide if I liked the colour or the strong contrast black & white best here :-)


We got to have a go at some off-camera flash too. Brick walls make brilliant backgrounds as you can really have some fun in Photoshop afterwards.

So, another excellent day with a good group. They got some nice shots and gave me some lovely feedback so thanks for that. Thanks to Chloe too of course!

Sunday I was back at Ettington Chase for a wedding fayre. Another successful day and it was topped off by getting some shots of this shiny R44 out on the lawn.