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Photography Weekend Away – Welshpool, Wales
Tue, 15 May 2012 13:54:29 GMT
This weekend saw an action-packed weekend at Red Cloud, aside from our usual courses running, last weekend we held our first photography weekend away in Welshpool, Wales.
Luckily the weather stayed nice for our tutor, John Evans and our photography guests – meaning they could fully enjoy the beautiful venue and location, surrounded by hills. We all stayed in a great old farmhouse where we got to enjoy the first class accommodation and brilliant hosts.
We spent the first day spent on the farm with our photography workshop held in the living room preceded by a lovely cooked breakfast. Everyone got stuck into their course materials and we began teaching the group the routine of basic camera functions of Exposure control, Shutter Aperture and ISO. We then went out for a shoot session in the grounds of the farm to practice all the group had just learnt. After cake & tea (very important) we got stuck into shutter priority with the barns supplying resident Swallows and House Martins to capture on camera- no easy task mind!
After beautiful homemade soup and rolls for lunch the group ventured to the village and a lovely scenic wood with all manner of photographic possibilities available, including a river and the Deri woods with bluebells. After going back to the farm for an Image critique and feedback we all finished up for the day with a lovely Hot Tub soak in the outside garden. 
Our second day began with another all important hearty breakfast before the gang headed onto The LLyn Vyrnwy – a good trip over the valley and around very scenic country. We all walked to the Sculpture park to get a great overview of the dam wall and woods so we set to work using the full manual controls of the camera and began metering techniques – but not before a lesson on White balance and AE lock! Another hearty lunch was taken in the cafe near by and a visit to the Bird Hide to photograph all manner of Birds from Siskin to Greenfinch, including a resident squirrel.
The group had a fantastic weekend – well taught and well fed was the great feedback we received! If you’re interested in our upcoming photography holidays drop us an email at: learnmore@redclouddays.co.uk
Nigel 
Feedback from the course:
“Had super weekend, thank you. John is a great Guy and a good teacher and we found Lloyd and Janet to be excellent hosts. The area must be one of the most beautiful in the British Isles and the Goat in Llanfair Ceireinion serves toothsome food at reasonable prices. All round, and we were lucky with the weather, a
great time was had etc.
Feedback from the course:
Thanks again
Nigel” - Nigel Thompson
