Another Fantastic Workshop with Landscape Locations Another fantastic workshop with Landscape Locations. This was my second workshop with Melvin, and it did not disappoint. This time it was to the Outer Hebrides, to the Isle of Harris & Lewis. With a WhatsApp group to help us all get to know each other a bit before we started and to guide us to our meeting point at the ferry we checked into the lovely Harris Hotel at Tarbet, which provided a great location to go to lots of different locations (I think I counted 21 different places), with decisions taken dependent on weather conditions which were mostly favourable to us! Each of us a wide range of skills and areas of expertise from different types of photography, and it was great to learn from everyone – and post tour this has continued as we see each other’s interpretations of scenes that we had taken. We visited the Callanish stones which helped us practice our composition, ahead of a sunrise shoot later in the week. We were treated some dramatic skies between locations which made for some quick impromptu stop-offs and capture some wonderful shots. We visited a wide variety of rocky beaches and beaches at different times of day capturing some fabulous light at times, with Melvin doing some very long days on some days driving us all over Harris and Lewis. One day we had a 4.45 set off time, with a late return after an amazing evening at Magnersta. Melvin helped guide with composition as well guidance on settings, filters to use, which is not an easy task with everyone with different camera systems, expectations and how each of us visualise the landscape. With a wonderful group of people it was fascinating to see each others’ compositions and approaches to shots. On a rainy day we went through kit and filter choices. We spent some time also going through a fun session on lightroom/photoshop and it was interesting to see different peoples approaches to editing. I felt my photography really started to click again, with greater confidence in my compositions and some of the best shots I think I’ve taken and even felt inspiration to spend a couple more days on Skye afterwards and I can’t thank Melvin enough for his advice and guidance (as well as his banter!) and had a wonderful time, with him and everyone on the workshop. I would highly recommend Landscape Locations and would happily go on another tour again in the future.
Deneyim tarihi: 14 March, 2026