by Osprey Photo Workshops & Tours | Aug 14, 2012 | Nature, Photo Tours, Photo Workshops, Travel, Wildlife
Tangier Island Photo Workshop
8 & 9 Sep 2012
Instructors: Irene Hinke-Sacilotto and Bill Wallen
All inclusive – boat and ground transportation, room, food, digital photography instruction. Round-trip cruise from Crisfield to Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay.
Features
– Experienced instructors
– High instructor to student ratio
– Nikon lenses available for borrowing
– Photography ooportunities from both land and water
– Unique setting
– Potential photo subjects: crab shacks, workboats, small boat harbor, waterman at work, quaint homes and historic buildings, plus osprey, herons, and other wildlife.
– Includes critique of participant images at the end of the workshop
Sponsored by the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art
$450 Members; $500 Non-members
Registration deadline: Friday, August 24
For more information visit www.wardmuseum.org
To register call 410-742-4988 ext. 110 or email WardEducation@salisbury.edu
by Osprey Photo Workshops & Tours | Jul 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
It’s fun finding multiple ways of photographically intrepreting a single subject. It increases your creative ability and is just fun. In this case, I selected the surf as my topic.
by Osprey Photo Workshops & Tours | Jul 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Nature Photography Workshop
August 10 – 12, 2012
Led by: Irene Hinke-Sacilotto
August 10, Friday evening orientation (7:30 PM-9:30 PM) @ the Best Western Motel in Chincoteague
August 11, Saturday (Sunrise – Sunset)
Sunrise to sunset photography @ Chincoteague NWR, Assateague Island, and the town of Chincoteague, VA. Mid-day break to edit and discuss morning images @ the Best Western Motel. Afternoon photography until sunset.
August 12, Sunday (Sunrise to 2 PM).
Photography @ Chincoteague, Assateague Island, and surroundings (Sunrise to 10 AM).
Slide editing and lunch break (10 AM – 12 PM). Discussion/Critique of workshop images @ the Best Western Motel (12 – 2 PM).
Description
This class is designed for those with a basic knowledge of the operation of a 35 mm SLR digital camera and an interest in nature. Learn how to improve photographic skills and optimize the use of your camera. Class includes an orientation slide program followed by photography sessions on Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Assateague Island and in the town of Chincoteague. Critiques of participant images are mixed with field practice.. Topics discussed include 1) equipment selection and operation, 2) composition, creativity and perspective, 3) metering and exposure, 4) lighting, 5) digital media and image storage, 6) basic image manipulation and 7) locating, approaching and photographing wildlife. Potential subjects include sand dunes, shells, the surf, flowers, fishing boats, fisherman, the lighthouse, and local architecture plus wildlife including sika elk and whitetail deer, fox, otters, raccoons, ponies, herons, rails, swans, geese, ducks, shorebirds and other resident and migratory species. Sponsored by the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art, Salisbury University. www.ospreyphoto.com
by Osprey Photo Workshops & Tours | Jun 25, 2012 | Nature, Photo Tours, Photo Workshops, Wildlife
The last Chincoteague photo workshop I conducted was fun as usual. Great people and myfavorite location to offer programs. Saturday mornings dawn photography on the beach was very productive with wind swept waves backlit by the sun and feeding sanderlings racing along the shore to beat advancing waves. Attracted by an abundant supply of horseshoe crab eggs, other migrating shorebirds were prsent in large numbers on the mud flats at low tide and along the shore of Toms Cove –dowitchers, godwits, dunlin, ruddy turnstones, willets, plovers and more. Great photo opportunities were presented by terns and egrets catching fish in the borrow ditch just a few feet away, sometimes catching two at a time and fighting over prime fishing territory. A pair of oystercatchers nesting near the ocean parking lot calmly posed for photographs those who remained in the car. Black skimmers engaged in courtship antics nearby. This program was sponsored by Norfolk Botanical Gardens.
Coming up are two nature photography workshops, “Wildlife Photography” at Norfolk Botanical Gardens, 24 – 26 Aug. Plus a basic editing class at the gardens the same week. Just added to my schedule is a new Chincoteague weekend scheduled for 10 – 12 Aug and sponsored by the Ward Museum of Waterfowl Art, Salisbury University
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by Osprey Photo Workshops & Tours | Jun 25, 2012 | Nature, Photo Workshops, Wildlife
I was unable to get close to this piping plover since it was in a restricted nesting area. However, because of the high number of mega pixels with my D4 Nikon SLR, I was able to crop the image enough to show this remarkable behavior – piping plover defending its young against ghost crab, a preditor on its chicks.
