Workshops

Bribie island driftwood and water walkshop

Join me on a unique beach where tea tree forests meet the ocean. Photograph the story of driftwood caught in sand, washed with gentle waves, formed into works of art. Every time I go to this beach there is something different in this ever-changing landscape.

You will learn how to use water movement as an important part of the composition. This will be achieved with observation of the water direction and speed then captured with timing and filters. There will be a ICM (intentional camera movement) technique part as well. This 4 hour workshop will excite your creativity and give you real skills to use whenever water movement is desired.

You will need to know how to change settings on your camera like aperture, shutter speed, iso. Equipment needed will be a tripod, remote control/shutter release for operating the camera without touching it. Filters needed are a circular polarizer that can be stacked with a neutral density filter of 3 or 6 stops. A 10 stop neutral density filter would give you more options but is not necessary. Lenses needed would be something around 16-35mm and a 24-70mm. You will be standing in moving water with a possibility of sharp wood sticking out of the sand so you will need shoes on. $40 per person.

To show your interest and arrange payment email; shanespoor@gmail.com

Call Shane on 0419967585 for more info if you like.

Starting at 8.30am on the 27-4-2025 at Bribie island.

Bald Rock and Girraween workshop 

If you're ready to explore the amazing granite belt and adventure through this inspiring place! Grab your camera, free your spirit, and be guided to some epic locations with other adventurers. Landscape photography captures the moments you engage with the landscape, memories of the interesting things you noticed. Girraween at this time of year is full of wildflowers and hopefully a nice flow of water in the streams. Along the way you will be taught; 

• Two bonus photoshop nights of 2-3 hours, one before workshop, and one after to prepare/reflect on the skills you have learned/used in your photography. I will show you how to blend photos using various techniques including luminosity masks. Also, I will take you through focus stacking.

• The Capture Process hard copy handouts.

• How to notice different light properties, construct compositions and learn my capture techniques. 

• How to capture what YOU see and produce a great image of it. What you see is unique to you and a “one of a kind” 

• How to use “in the field techniques” to creatively capture all the parts of your composition to process it better in Photoshop. 

• Camera Settings, focus techniques, colour, contrast, light painting and creative artistry. 

Day 1      Arrive at Bald rock campground at 11pm and set up camp. This is a national park campground with no showers. We will then walk up the rock and explore, take sunset pics and then do some astro photography and light painting. 

Day 2       Sunrise at Bald rock. In the afternoon we will drive to Boonoo Boonoo for the great rocky creek there. We will stay there for sunset, astro photography and light painting if we feel up to it. 

Day 3       Pack up and drive Mt Norman day area and walk up the short trail to Mt Norman, this is an epic landscape!! After that we will drive to Glen Alpin campground near Girraween and set up camp, this is a normal campground with showers and camp kitchen. We will then drive to Girraween and do sunset and light painting/astro on the creek near the Girraween campground. 

Day 4       We will get up early for a sunrise session at Glen Alpin campground lake, a lot of the time its misty and really nice. Then we will head back to Girraween and walk to the underground creek. Later on we will go to the Stanthorpe railway bridge for sunset and then dinner at Stanthorpe.

Day 5       Another sunrise at Glen Alpin campground then pack up and go home. 

This is a camp only workshop. You will need to provide your own camping gear and food. You will need to be able to walk up to 3-4km and scramble up rocks. I will only take people into the more dangerous parts if they are comfortable with it.

Price $800 this includes camping fees and park entry fees. Deposit of $200 balance to be paid two weeks before workshop.

Workshop starts on Friday 15-8-2025 ends on the morning of Wednesday 20-8-2024.

Caloundra on the rock’s seascape walkshop.

Join me and other avid seascapers on an interesting rocky coastline. This area has some great rock patterns with nice colours all easily accessible from the car park. Also the tides will be just right for water to flow around the subjects we will be focussing on.  We will meet at 1pm and finish after sunset. You will be learning composition, water effects, as well as a lot of other things needed for this type of photography.    

You will need to know how to change settings on your camera like aperture, shutter speed, iso. Equipment needed will be a tripod, remote control/shutter release for operating the camera without touching it. Filters needed are a circular polarizer that can be stacked with a neutral density filter of 3 or 6 stops. A 10 stop neutral density filter would give you more options but is not necessary. Lenses needed would be something around 16-35mm and a 24-70mm on a full frame camera or equivalent on a crop sensor.

$40 per person.

Running on the 14/9/2025 Starting at 2pm at Caloundra.