Slovenia Landscape Photography Workshop
Price range: £500.00 through £2,500.00
SOLD OUT – 24th October – 30th October 2026: This Slovenia landscape photography workshop offers breathtaking autumnal landscapes set amongst clear water rivers, misty hills with mountain backdrops, high mountain passes, picture-postcard villages and churches, and, the chance to shoot a little astrophotography overlooking mountain peaks whilst perched above them.
Description
SLOVENIA PHOTO TOUR and WORKSHOP
Photography in Slovenia
24th October – 30th October 2026
2026 SLOVENIA PHOTO TOUR & WORKSHOP INFORMATION
This Slovenia landscape photography workshop offers breathtaking autumnal landscapes set amongst clear water rivers, misty hills with mountain backdrops, high mountain passes, picture-postcard villages and churches, and the chance to shoot a little astrophotography overlooking mountain peaks whilst perched above them.
Tutors: Ollie Taylor
PRICE
Full Price £2500
DATES & AVAILABILITY
PARTICIPANTS
Max 6 Photographers
Tutors: Ollie Taylor
EXERTION LEVEL
LOCATION
Julian Alps – Kamnik-Savinja Alps Slovenia
Landscape Photography Tuition
This workshop includes traditional landscape photography shoots and tuition amid spectacular mountain, hill, and woodland scenery.
Nightscape Photography Tuition
Astrophotography tuition is limited within this workshop due to moonlight, though moonlight photography will feature.
Expertise
The Slovenia tour is aimed at photographers of all levels.
PACKAGE Includes
Pick up and transfer from/to Ljubljana Airport
Single Occupancy Accommodation
Transportation to and from the airport
Transportation around Slovenia
Professional landscape photography & astrophotography tuition and advice throughout the tour
Digital darkroom sessions
In-depth follow up digital darkroom image to print tuition if required*
Help with onward travel if required*
PACKAGE Excludes
Flights
Personal travel and equipment insurance
Meals and snacks
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SLOVENIA PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Slovenia Landscape Photography Workshop focusing on autumn landscape photography and astrophotography in the Julian Alps including Soca Valley, Lake Bled, and the Kamnik-Savinja Alps.
Experience an incredible selection of Slovenian landscapes ranging from wooded, mountainous valleys, iconic churches, and clear flowing rivers, either in vibrant sunlight or shrouded in photogenic mist and cloud. Drive over, commence on small hikes, and photograph mountain peaks from high alpine passes and mountain roads, by day, and night. Capture sunrise and sunset at Lake Bohinj and the iconic Lake Bled where our base camp will be situated.
We first set up Slovenia workshops after spending five months in the country working commissions through winter, spring, and autumn; with a summer family holiday thrown in for good measure, after falling in love with Slovenia and its landscapes. As with most of our workshops, locations will be picked the day prior as the workshop progresses, and the weather forecast used accordingly to select which locations work with the conditions on the day.
Fieldwork Equipment
Full frame, crop sensor, micro four-thirds, and bridge cameras can be used, alongside larger format cameras. There is no age or ISO capability recommendation for this workshop due to there being less nightscape photography than on other workshops, though the camera will need to perform well-rendering shadows due to the nature of low light landscape photography.
- Camera body
- Multiple lenses with a range of focal lengths from wide to telephoto
- Sturdy tripod
- Remote timer or long exposure bulb control built-in on the timer
- Spare camera battery
- Head torch with a red mode (this is not for night vision, it makes it easier to work as a group, and stops us from blinding one another)
- Slovenia is mild during the day in October but can be cold at night in the mountains. Warm clothes and layers, rain and windproofs, hiking boots/trainers, a mixture of normal/hiking and winter socks, hat, gloves, neck warmer, and hand warmers
Post-production & Planning Necessities
The group will undertake one or two 2/3-hour post-production sessions naturally covering some nightscape, but also looking at landscape photography editing techniques.
The planning and post-production are critical elements of nightscape photography, and landscape photography, hence they have been included in our group workshops since 2014. For those that don’t use Adobe and are using other post-production software suites, it will be up to you to transfer the workflow to your chosen software suite; the second phase of the workflow requires software with layers (ie Photoshop or similar).
- Lightroom (please make sure this is Lightroom Classic)
- Photoshop (or another suite with layer options)
- A laptop running the above ideally with a minimum of 8GB Ram
- This part of the workshop can be undertaken with no laptop and note writing, though following on a laptop is recommended
Recommended apps that will be taught and demonstrated:
- Photopills (paid one-time subscription)
ACCOMMODATION & TRAVEL
Accommodation:
Accommodation is situated at the quiet end of Lake Bled, a 10/15 minute walk from the classic sunrise/sunset location, rooms are to a very high standard, single occupancy en-suite rooms.
Small groups are guaranteed to give plenty of scope for personal, and group, tuition, if, of course, required.
Post-production sessions will also take place in the hotel function room on Lightroom and Photoshop, with PDF follow-ups emailed to the group covering all basic nightscape, field and editing tutorials.
SLOVENIA WORKSHOP FAQS
Ollie has run Slovenia photography workshops for the best part of a decade, and was amongst, if not the very first, workshop leader to offer astrophotography tuition and shoots as part of his tours, whilst also making sure the tours retain a strong landscape photography element. Ollie has worked two commercial commissions lasting several months in Slovenia, so knows the region well. Read more about the tutor and workshops here.
He also runs his Slovenia workshops similar to his Iceland tours, whereby the location each day is decided the day prior according to the best possible mountain weather forecasts, thus increasing the chance of successful astrophotography shoots, sunrises with cloud inversion, and utilising potential rainy days for post-production.
The Slovenia Photo Tour is also a workshop, not just a tour, so tuition is on hand for those that require it. For groups that have no nightscape experience, Ollie will teach the group in a step-by-step fashion on the first clear night, looking at beginners to advanced, beginner techniques from single frames to exposure, and blending to stacking.
Landscape photography is usually more diversified with group attendees and, if required, Ollie usually works with the group members individually on different aspects from composition to technique, depending on where they feel they are with their landscape work.
Anyone living within the EU does not require a visa for Italy. Currently UK passport holders can enter any EU country for up to 90 days without a visa, though this is set to change to an ETAS type system in 2024. Travellers from other countries will need a Schengen Visa allowing 90 days travel within Italy and other Schengen countries.
The workshops are always based within the very short fall period, meaning winter is looming and the first “big” snow can come at any time.
Days can range from 5°-18° in the sun, with nights dropping to zero on the high passes and mountain trails, and there can be wind chill.
Winter clothing is needed with a mix of some light-weather hiking kit for the warmer days, heavy rain is possible but it’s unusual for the group to get caught out in it.
- Comfortable light hiking pants
- Windproof heavier duty hiking pants
- Waterproof overlayer
- Base layers
- Multiple thermal fleeces or underlayers that can be layered over one another
- Lightweight hiking tops
- Hiking socks and thermal socks (feet always get cold first undertaking night photography)
- Thermal down jacket or outdoor wind/waterproof thermal coat (lightweight if possible)
- Gore Tex/waterproof hiking boots/trainers
- Hat/gloves/snood/scarf
Nice to haves!
- Spare pair of hiking boots/trainers in case one set gets wet through
- Hand warmers (throw away or electronic)
- Feet warmers/battery socks
- Micro crampons (Ollie will notify the group the week commencing if snow is forecast)
- Sunscreen
Any Photography Workshop advertising the Tre Cime di Lavaredo (Drei Zinnen) classic view from Rifugio a.Locatelli (Dreizinnenhütte) as a location within the itinerary requires around one and a half hours walking each way with two inclines 75/100m outbound and one inbound; this isn’t always made clear on tour leader websites.
Our team try and use this location for astrophotography, meaning hiking in with warm clothes for a few hours of darkness, camera equipment, food and drink, so the long day and astrophotography element make this tour a little more demanding than some other tours. Sometimes, depending on weather, exact time of year, we also hike some other lesser trodden trails for more rewarding, quieter locations.
Occasionally, Ollie operates less demanding tours without some of the longer hiking trails to order, please sign up to the newsletter for further information, or contact Ollie.
The photography workshop is self-catering, and days incorporating astrophotography we prepare our own food for the evening. There is an abundance of excellent restaurants in various areas we visit, and we utilise these on our travels and on evenings with unfavourable weather.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Group emails are set up once the group is fully booked as an icebreaker, and also to serve as a Q&A platform.
Please note deposits are non-refundable and balances are due 90 days prior to the workshop commencing.
Please contact us for further info.
BOOK YOUR PLACE
If there are spaces left, you can book your place on this photography tour below.
If you have any questions please click here to contact Ollie Taylor.
Additional information
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