The Icelandic Landscape
A Digital Photographic Workshop through the Land of Fire and Ice with Stephen Johnson
Glaciers, Volcanic Fields and Digital Photography Immersion
A Nine Day Digital Photography Field Workshop
Tentative Dates: September 3-11, 2023
Approximate Tuition: $8500. Limited to 8 students.
The Trip
Join us for this Icelandic Landscape workshop where the wondrous and raw volcanic landscape, geothermal features and sheer remoteness are the settings for this adventure. Water and sea, weather and mountains, reflection and growth. Come spend 9 days with us on this magnificent and raw island country. The trip is designed to be a complete immersion in landscape photography and its digital evolution with the pioneer in digital landscape photography.
The Workshop
This digital landscape workshop explores island nation with the tools of digital photography, including on-site visualization, and technical evaluation. Film users are also welcome.
Lectures will include digital exposure, composition, visual distillation, archiving, color management and fine-art printing. We will discuss technical and aesthetic issues, tapping into your emotional response to this landscape, working toward images that are uniquely your own. The emphasis will be improving the composition and technical finesse of the participants, empowering the individual photographers to better pursue their vision, from image-making to print-making.
from the 2009 Workshop
We had a fantastic trip with Steve in Iceland. We both learned so much and especially liked the critiques. The landscape was inspiring and the other members on the trip were great. Good chemistry! I especially remember photographing the icebergs going out to sea and after we gathered back at the truck, Steve asked us if we had seen the sculpted chunks of ice on the dark sandy beach. Steve was always pushing us to see the abstract composition in the landscapes as well as how to simplify the pictures. Steve is not only a very gifted photographer, but a great teacher. This comes from my experience teaching at the college level for over 20 years and writing many peer evaluations. His criticism is always constructive and sensitive to the developmental levels of the students he addresses. It was humbling for me to be in a critique, opposed to running one. It gives me fresh insight into what my students experience in my studio classes.
–Peter Roos
Group critique sessions will be held most every evening, using a digital projector or student laptops to display selections of the day’s work.
Classroom Along the Way
We will work in the field and on our laptops. We will interact with what has been done. We will look, ask much of our work and press on to make it as strong and sensitive as possible. We’ll employ meeting rooms along the way to hold group working and help sessions, lectures and critiques.
The Workshop Program
Individual problem solving has been a high priority in this workshop program all through its 40 year history. Classes are kept small to maximize individual attention. Plan to bring some of your work to demonstrate how you see, what you are happy with, and photographs that indicate problems you are encountering. This workshop is limited to 8 students.
Itinerary
We are working on the detail of the itinerary now and will post as it is developed.
Details
$8500 Tuition covers planning, course development, instruction, critiques, logistics, lodging (double occupancy), breakfast and transportation in Iceland. Details will be sent on enrollment. A $1080 single room supplement is available.
Class sessions will be mostly during the evenings. A full agenda is planned for this workshop, including dawn and dusk sessions. We will be doing a fair amount of walking near our tour car.
Deposits, Cancellations and Refunds
A $1500 deposit is required to hold your place in the class. Final payment needs to be made no later than 2 months in advance of the class. Insufficient enrollment could cause a cancellation and a full refund would be given. A Covid driven cancellation policy is being worked out.
This workshop is financially dependent on adequate class registration. Where minimum enrollment requirements are not met, the class will be cancelled, and a full refund given. You will be notified at least two months in advance if a workshop is not going to take place due to lack on enrollment. Student initiated cancellations received prior to two months before the workshop will receive whatever booking fee can be recovered form tour provider. Student cancellation notice received in the last two months before the class cannot be guaranteed refunds.
We recommend that you purchase refundable airline tickets as we cannot guarantee adequate enrollment to conduct the workshop. Travel insurance can also be purchased linked to our trip provider.