Isles of Harris & Lewis Landscape Photography Workshop

This Tripod Travels workshop with Lizzie Shepherd. Please use the Equire Now button as places are offered on a first come first erved basis.

https://www.lizzieshepherd.com/workshops/view/isle-of-harris-lewis-photography-workshop

The best option to join a trip with us is to email and let us know your keen to come and we will add you to our list to give first refusal on a place before we offer the trip more widely.

Dates Scheduled:

Autumn 2024 - Fully Booked.

2025:

6th - 12th March 2025 
9th - 15th October 2025

The Isles of Lewis and Harris offer a wonderful variety of scenery and subject matter for the photographer, with rugged cliffs and sea stacks, white sandy beaches, impossibly blue seas and windswept moorland; and sometimes, the most incredible display of light and colour.

We will be based in a lovely and comfortable hotel in Tarbert on Harris, giving us reasonably easy access to Lewis in the north, as well as the sandy beaches of south west, Harris and the lunar landscape of the Golden Road to the south east.

Our workshop is designed to offer a balance between visiting a variety of locations, learning the technical skills you require and looking carefully at creative interpretation of a scene.

Workshop Content

The Isles of Lewis and Harris offer a wonderful variety of scenery and subject matter for the photographer, with rugged cliffs and sea stacks, white sandy beaches, impossibly blue seas and windswept moorland; and sometimes, the most incredible display of light and colour! 

You will undoubtedly see some great vistas but we will also be concentrating on the smaller, more intimate details to be found within the landscape - looking at ways of capturing our surroundings with more abstract interpretations, helping you to get out of your comfort zone and try a few different techniques and approaches to photographing this wonderful location.

Sunrise and sunset are at reasonably civilised times during the time of year we visit - but the days are still long enough to fit in a really good and varied itinerary. Near to our base are the wonderful sandy beaches of Harris, lined with gorgeously textural marram grass dunes - whether you enjoy your wide vistas or your intimate landscapes and detail shots, you will love the beaches here. The colour of the sea has to be seen to be believed - arguably at its best on a more overcast day, whilst, on a calm and sunny day, you could be forgiven for thinking you’d landed on some tropical island! Dip your toe in the water, though, and reality soon sets in! Typically, we will spend the majority of our time on Harris, but with at least one day on Lewis.

The west coast of Lewis boasts some wonderful cliffs and sea stacks, as well as a number of beautiful sandy beaches. There’s a good chance of crashing waves to help us capture some dramatic scenes.

 As well as the astonishing main stone circles at Callanish, there are two further smaller circles well worth visiting. There are some wonderfully situated, abandoned crofts on the Isle of Lewis. Further inland, on both islands, we will also spend some time photographing the hills, moorland and lochans, with the grasses and reeds a lovely colour at this time of year, offering potential for both abstract and landscape images.



We will also provide a digital skills sessions where we will show you the fundamental techniques required to process your photographs, including exposure blending, using layers and masks and how to work efficiently in both Lightroom and Photoshop. The emphasis is on encouraging group discussion and lively debate between all participants and we will also use this time to look over and review some of the photographs from our outings.

This has proved a very popular part of our workshops, as it helps take the photographs shot on location through the digital darkroom, ready for print or web display.

We believe this offers a full and comprehensive workshop that strikes a balance between shooting on location and practical help with the necessary post production side so that you can leave with a wealth of new knowledge and skills.

This is a Tripod Travels Photo Tour workshop run in with my good friend and fellow landscape photograper Lizzie Shepherd.  Lizzie and I have thoroughly enjoyed working together for several years now and share a similar passion for the landscape with often different ways of capturing it which, we feel, offers a broad creative resource for you to draw upon when needed.