A Forest & Seascape Workshop Itinerary

~Oregon Coast & Redwoods~

A Four Night, 5 Day Adventure Along the southern Oregon coast and northern California coastal redwoods

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Mission & Agenda

Join myself and the illustrious Blake Rudis of the F/64 Academy on a 4 night, 5 day masterclass of seascapes and forest photography! From chasing moody coastal scenes to foggy redwoods there will be no shortage of inspiration on this one!

Bringing together years of formal training from very different backgrounds and disciplines, this workshop is bound to be pure magic. Blakes vast knowledge of every single tool in photoshop and Lightroom bring a very different perspective to the table. Im so excited for this! You'll get to see both of our creative post processing, too with 3 post processing sessions throughout the workshop, all screen recorded of course!

The group will be based out of a spacious and luxurious rented Condo or a hotel, were still working that out.

Where: This workshop will be based out of Brookings, Oregon

When: October 26th ~ 30th, 2025 (4 nights)

Limited to only 10 Students

Total Cost: $3999.99

Deposit: $1250.00 @ Time of Booking

Lodging Included

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Vision & Focus

Capturing the power and motion of the sea and the quiet chaos of the redwood forests

Our focus will be:

Discovering Composition, Learning how to master visual flow when there is so much visual chaos
Creating and crafting a visual narrative, Telling a story with your image
Choosing the most engaging and thought provoking compositions to enhance that story
Learning what technique or process best captures those elements
Long Exposure and use of Filters
Stacking images for focus, How, When, and Why!
Focal Length Blending, Creative, Innovative, and Restorative techniques using wide angle lenses
When and How to Properly Bracket and Exposure Blend
How to put it all together in Adobe Lightroom, Helicon Focus, Starry landscape Stacker and Adobe Photoshop
Various Techniques for Dodging & Burning, and Shaping the Light
Color theory and its Immense power in Post Processing

~In-depth post processing

Entirely Screen recorded

General Itinerary

•1 Week ahead of the event we will have a "Pre-Workshop" Zoom class to discuss finalities, concepts, techniques and to get you familiar with the type of images we will be working on!

•Evening Day 1: We will begin this trip on October 26th at 3pm at our Lodging. From there you will check-in to your respective rooms and we will gather again for a briefing, chat a bit and strategize for the first evenings shooting. This crash course approach lets me gauge your varying skill and level of understanding of photography principals and fundamentals. We will capture sunset and maybe even a few stars if the weather gods agree

•Morning Day 2: The Following morning, we will rise bright and early for that mornings location. Which could be decided that morning based on weather, clouds, conditions in general. Afterward we will make our way back into town. Students are welcome to lag behind and explore until the classroom session.

-Breakfast

•Classroom Session from 11am-2pm

-Late Lunch/Early Dinner

•Evening Day 2: Reconvene at 3pm, Briefing, Head out for that afternoon/evening.

•Day 3: Will follow the above Itinerary

•Morning Day 4: The Final Sunrise, will follow the above Itinerary, followed by a group Breakfast!

-End - Checkout Time (10/11am)

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