VSP Workshops Blog

Street photography is a pretty broad term to be honest. Nonetheless when photographers mention it, I think for the most part we all share a fairly united vision of what it refers to. Interestingly, over the years of running various ’street photography’ themed workshops with various teachers, there have been some very consistent messages by way of advice and teachings. (more…)

The following is the first part of a free tutorial that covers the concepts of ‘Creative Seeing and Visualisation’. For the last four years, this has been our most popular workshop at VSP, and the below notes form part of the content that we cover in the workshop. (more…)

Image by Lars Lindholm

Well perhaps ’storm evading’ would be a more accurate description of what happened in Tuscany.  Every morning of the workshop, I’d hear somebody on CNN talking about the severe weather system currently pushing across Italy.  Given the forecasts, we were actually very fortunate with the weather.  From a photographer’s perspective, the one thing we hoped for on the workshop was dramatic weather.  Grey, flat light was a no-no, but if it had to be bad, we wanted storm clouds and drama – rather like a scene from Independence Day only without the Armageddon bit afterwards. (more…)

Remember I promised we’d be doing something called ‘Workshop Diaries’?  Well man of my word that I am, here’s the first instalment.  Today was the first day of our now annual Nikon Lighting Workshop, with Joe McNally and his bag of tricks at the teaching helm.  The will be the third year we’ve run this workshop with Joe now, and I’m glad to say, it’s a real blast each year.  Great group of people from all over the world attending – Mexico, Germany, Holland, USA and Australia. (more…)

Hello Everybody – drum rolls, the anticipation, take the phone off the hook…life will never be the same again….
I suppose in the grand scheme of things, VSP are a little late getting into the blog swing of things.  I’ve personally been reading a number of very interesting blogs over the last few years, and often wondered how we could make our own contribution to the bottomless pit of cyber self-publishing.
I take my hat off to Mr McNally and his very enjoyable blog – funny, informative, and well, really just like sitting down next to him for a chat.  Note to self – be funny, be refreshing, fun and informative, don’t post too often….

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