Cortaderas photo week end

Photography in Nature

By Julio E. Foster,

professional photographer, winner of Catamarca al Natural 2020 award

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INTRODUCTION AND CONTENTS:

More practical than theoretical workshop on how to solve the specific problems posed by photography in the natural environment.

From macro photography to landscape, using nature as a motif, light as a raw material, the camera as a tool and perception as a guideline.

PURPOSE:

Initiate participants in the essential concepts for better use of photographic equipment, light conditions and those of the environment to obtain the best images.

ENVIRONMENT:

The Hostería Cortaderas at 3300 meters above sea level will be the meeting place, accommodation and base for photographic tours of the surroundings. Just there is the lagoon that at this time of year vibrates with birds, different species of flamingos, sandpipers, gallaretas ... At dawn it is possible to see the guanacos that come to drink.

Walks of no more than two hours bring us closer to discovering the rich hidden outcrops, in a volcanic landscape that appears to be desert.

The inn has all the recommended safety and hygiene measures to prevent covid.

TOPICS

• · Introduction and history of Nature photography.

• · The light composition and qualities.

• · Advanced photometry.

• · Photographic equipment: cameras, lenses, teleconverters, flashing filters, optical accessories, tripods, digiscoping ...

• · Advanced focusing techniques: selective focus, depth of field, bokeh, hyperfocal focus.

• · Composition, preliminaries of visual language.

• · Shooting techniques: frozen, sweep and movement.

• · Landscape, from geological interpretation to photographic composition

• · Macrophotography: plants and insects.

• · Water: reflections, transparencies and movement.

• Night photography: long exposures

• Flora and fauna observation and digital image

• · The importance of analytical photographic editing.

Pensión completa, consistente en desayuno, cena y picnic

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Potography workshop

Photographic tours around Territorio Abaucán

By Julio E. Foster,

professional photographer, winner of Catamarca al Natural 2020 award

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This workshop is designed for small groups who wish to visit the Abaucán Territory, touring its fabulous landscapes, meeting its people and sharing their traditions with them.

Photography is practical and practicing with concepts is what this intensive photography workshop proposes.

Learn to master our cameras, the basics of photometry and composition understand the visual language and obtain a new photographic vision

The Workshop will help to understand the visual language and obtain a new perspective on the landscape, flora and fauna.

A special aspect of this workshop is explaining the different ways of approaching people photography.

DURATION

One week. We manage the accommodation according to your needs

EQUIPMENT

Any photographic camera from cell phone to professional SLR.

PRICE

According to season and accommodation.

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Long and winding road to Rio Grande

Way up to Rio Grande. At the bottom you can see the Tatón dunes in the valley and Fiambalá

Tatón is about 50 kilometers from Fiambala. From there to Rio Grande just over 40. However, it takes about five hours to travel the road that, although in restoration works, a good part is still gnawed by the rains. There is no complaint, until not long ago the inhabitants of Río Grande used to go down to Tatón on the back of a donkey with their merchandise: cheeses, goats, fabrics, threads, weeds ... Speed does not matter, time beats at a different rhythm in these mountains. The views invite you to take it easy. We are accompanied by Ricardo, Magali and Mía.

Ricardo's family, Don Antonio Suarez and Doña Angélica Tolaba, his grandparents, and Silvestre, Goyo and Juan, his uncles, await us in Río Grande. It's already night, the welcome rite mate homemade bread, tortilla and cheese. Then dinner.

Donkey trail on the way to El Pozo.

At six o'clock in the morning we leave for El Pozo, where Sandón, Marta, a thousand goats, sheep and country chores await us, milk and cape. The road is the old one for mules. The climb lasts even if it is only two hours of walking.

Intense, calm, elegant work. Roast goat for lunch with last minute guests. Pleasant after-dinner of quiet voices. The silence obviates the shouting. Names of the hills, the old days, jokes and gossip.

The return at sunset, spectacle of streams and peaks of four thousand meters. Far away those white sands exhaled by a volcano long, long time ago.

Sunday dawns with calm mate and tortillas freshly made on the fire. Family photo sessions and demonstration of men who know how to spin sheep, llama and vicuña wool. Lunch and then return along the precarious path of landscapes that Pachamama glimpse.

The hairs from the tails of the goats castrated during the days are saved to offer to the Pachamama.

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