Learn how to photograph the Milky Way on this photographic workshop with structured night photography field based tuition, precise global nightscape location and photography planning , and also learn a beginners to intermediate post production workflow in Lightroom and Photoshop.

This nightscape workshop is structured at a steady pace with the night sky tuition repeated by the group to ensure everyone has a full understanding of how the techniques are implemented to give professional standard images, every time.

Photographers attending the course will need a basic understanding of manual camera settings, but other than that, the workshop is open to all levels of photographer moving all participants through the field work, planning, and post-production in unison.

The majority of Ollie’s workshops are always planned on dates where optimum visibility of the Milky Way is possible, often meaning late, but rewarding nights. The initial meeting will take place in the field prior to the workshop commencing, enabling time for a small ‘meet and greet’ session to get to know each other before working on our first compositions and preparing for our night’s work.

Group emails are set up, as an ice breaker, once the group is full, and a Q&A platform.

There may also be the opportunity to shoot the iconic Portland Bill lighthouse at night before we turn our attention toward landscape astrophotography and general nightscape techniques. Other popular Dorset photographic locations may also be used for fieldwork depending on the weather up and down the coast; editing sessions will take place in Weymouth.

Fieldwork, planning, and post editing sessions are all incorporated over the two days, lasting around five hours each; participants will need a camera body with manual and the widest possible lens, longer focal lengths and primes may also be covered (Ollie will discuss equipment upon booking, along with how exactly the workshop functions).

Other equipment required:

Remote trigger (or in-camera bulb timer), tripod, warm outdoor clothing and footwear; and a torch, preferably head torch with separate red light. 

Certain equipment can be borrowed if not owned.