Puffins & Gannets

Instructor: Scott Grant, David Hemmings

Producer: Natures Photo Adventures

Price: $4,495 CAD

Starts: 2012-07-19

Ends: 2012-07-27

Workshop Overview
Seabirds and more seabirds! Visit the 3rd largest Gannet colony in the world to photograph this beautiful species during nesting. The flight shot opportunities abound as the Gannets go about their daily lives. Behaviours such as courtship displays, fencing, bowing, preening and mating will all be visible for great images. Capture shots of young chicks at the nest and at a variety of stages of development. Witness the parents bringing food for the chicks. With your camera in hand we will be shooting from a cliff’s edge that rises straight up hundreds of feet from the Atlantic ocean. On this adventure you will shoot a variety of birds diving in and out of the ocean. Species at the colony include Razorbills, Black-Legged Kittiwakes, Common Murres, Great Cormorants and Black Guillemots. Opportunities for both flight and portrait shots will abound.

We will also visit Gros Morne National Park for some beautiful landscape opportunities. We will also look for american Bittern, Northern Harrier, Black-backed Woodpecker spruce Grouse and more.

The Clown of the Sea – Atlantic Puffins: We continue the journey to visit an ecological reserve famous for its thousands of pairs of breeding and nesting Atlantic Puffins. You will be taken by boat to some of the reserve’s many islands to photograph these speedy and busy Puffins doing what they do best, flying about bringing nesting material and food back to the nests. You will have plenty of opportunity to use newly acquired skills capturing these speedsters in flight. The Puffin opportunities are endless; you will have a hard time deciding which ones to shoot! Puffins will be zipping about as you zoom your camera in and out. Capture static shots and post card perfect portraits of this awesome and colourful species. Our adventure continues travelling about Newfoundland photographing an enormous array of interesting and beautiful shore bird s. Visiting a Provincial Park we settle down at the beach to capture hundreds of shorebirds; Greater Yellowlegs, Semi-palmated Plovers and the endangered Piping Plover. Willets, Common Terns and Arctic Terns breed and nest here as well. On the final days we capture nesting Ospreys as they bring fish back to the nest. Rough Legged Hawks and Short Eared Owls are known for their displays on the flats. Capture these feathered friends and share many memories with loved ones when you return from your adventure. Read more in our Newfoundland Blog.

Key Learning Objectives
Capture stunning portraits of seabirds and shorebirds.
Techniques for photographing majestic coastal landscapes.
Basic Photoshop skills or improve those that you already posses.
Digital Workshops: (Optional) Evening workshops. Share & learn techniques and improve skills in Adobe Photoshop.
Learn how to take images from straight out-of-the-camera RAW images to stunning final works of art (ready for printing or websites).

Digital Workshops: During the evenings for those who wish to participate, we will have image review sessions and talk about techniques and what we can expect to see the next day. In these post processing workshops participants will have ample opportunities to improve skills in Adobe Photoshop. Paricipants can learn how to take their images from straight out-of-the-camera RAW images to stunning final works of art (ready for printing or websites).

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