Visiting family and friends in Tasmania? Here’s some inspiration to take a little time out for yourself too…

An opportunity to enjoy nature while learning new skills to hone your photography techniques and enhance the photos you take.  

With only a week and limited spare time while visiting family in Tasmania, Simon decided to take a private photography tuition session – a little time out for himself to discover more about his camera (a Canon 6D). He’d rarely stepped away from the Auto settings but was well aware that his camera had much more functionality than he’d been using. He wanted to learn what could be achieved by taking more control of the settings to enhance the photos he could take.

Simon travelled from the UK to Tasmania (with his wife and daughter) to surprise his mum with a special visit. His mum had immigrated to Tasmania many years ago but he’d never had the chance to visit her – you can just imagine the overwhelming special feeling each of them felt the moment they arrived on her doorstep.

While his wife and daughter spent exclusive time with his Mum during one of the family’s Hobart excursions, Simon seized the opportunity to schedule a private photography tuition session with Coreena.

Prior to Simon’s arrival in Tasmania

We’d learnt that Simon is particularly keen on wildlife, landscapes and nature photography so we made a couple of suggestions about the experience that would most complement his interests (including the option of Wildlife Photography Tuition at Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary). After deliberating over what to do and how to fit it in with his already busy schedule (and to lessen the impact on the amount of quality time he had with his family), Simon selected a 3-hour Wellington Wanders photography walkabout called ‘Ferns, Fungi & Waterfalls’, in the foothills of kunanyi/Mt Wellington.

The topics during the walkabout

Simon gained a better understanding of the settings that he could use to capture the silky affect of flowing water, he learnt more about depth-of-field when photographing close-ups of fungi and ferns, gained more appreciation and benefits  of natural light, and he discovered the importance of adequate shutter speeds for low-light photography in a forest environment. Plenty of time to experiment to learn-by-doing.