Land & See - 2020

What is Land and See? It's an annual event exploring the journey of artistic vision in landscape and portrait photography.

This event, created by passionate Canadian creative portrait and landscape photographer, Dave Brosha, aims to be a one-of-a-kind exploration of the craft of artistic photography across genres. Held in Long Creek outside the capital city of Charlottetown on beautiful Prince Edward Island, the week features a mixture of talented speakers from across North America and offer participants both seminar-style learning and hands-on shooting opportunities.

This years speakers are to be announced soon and we are SO EXCITED about the line-up!

The week is designed so that photographers who consider themselves primarily portrait photographers can come and only go to the portrait-related days, or take in both portrait and landscape sessions. Vice versa for landscape photographers.

The Week's Schedule (note: exact talks, seminars, and shooting times to be finalized by mid-May):

Schedule:

July 6 - Monday, Kick-Off/CREATIVE PORTRAITURE: the first day will feature primarily seminar-style learning on topics including artistic inspiration, portrait styles, natural and introduced lighting techniques, posing, creating moods, and effective set/background design. The evening will have an open creating/shooting time where a variety of subjects/models will be on sight for participants to photograph.

July 7 - Tuesday, CREATIVE PORTRAITURE, Con't: the second day will be an all-day, hands-on creative slugfest featuring demos, numerous models/subjects, and various shooting groups including a mix of studio, location, and outdoor shooting. This day will be designed to give participants extensive shooting experience, with support from the Land and See team.

July 8 - Wednesday, CREATIVE POST-PROCESSING: the middle day of the conference will be the final day for those who sign up for a 3-day pass, the middle day for those who sign up for a 5-day pass, and the first day for those who sign up exclusively for the 3-day landscape. This day will not feature any photography, but will have multiple talks on workflow, editing, staying organized, the secrets of Adobe Lightroom, and advanced Photoshop techniques, followed by an inspiration talk from one of our non-photographer speakers. In the evening, we'll have a mid-event fun night.

July 9 - Thursday, CREATIVE LANDSCAPE: the first landscape day will feature primarily seminar-style learning on topics including artistic vision in the outdoor realm, composition, adventure photography, creative techniques, filters, long exposures, and sunset photography.

July 10 - Friday, CREATIVE LANDSCAPE, con't: our finale day will be an exhausting, exhilirating, inspiring day spent largely in the field, finishing off with celebration. First, we'll wake for pre-dawn landscape shooting at one of numerous near-by beautiful island scenes. Shooting will continue through multiple locations over the course of the morning (participants will be split across various locations for most effective shooting opportunities). In the afternoon we'll meet up for a group editing session, slideshow of participant's work, and critique.

FINALE: At 5PM on the evening of July 10th we'll end the 5-day Land and See event with a lobster supper (other food alternatives including vegetarian will be available for those who can't or don't like lobster) and celebration. Spouses/traveling partners are invited to come to the final dinner, too, for the cost of $25/person.

Official pricing:

Three-day passes (July 5/6/7 - CREATIVE PORTRAITURE PLUS POST-PROCESSING OR July 7/8/9 CREATIVE LANDSCAPE PLUS POST-PROCESSING):
$850+HST

Full five-day passes (July 6-10 all events):
$1250+HST

Deposit:

We will have two payment options available: pay in full at the time of registering or pay deposit-only ($750+tax for 5-day passes, $400+tax for 3-day passes). If you choose deposit-only, your balance will be due by November 16, 2019. Failure to pay the balance by November 16th, 2019 will mean your deposit will be forfeited and your space made available to a registrant on the waiting list.

Ticket purchase policy: all passes bought are non-refundable but are transferable. If you buy a pass and later determine you can't make it you're free to sell or give it to someone else (just keep us updated if you do).

Accomodation

For those coming from out of town, Prince Edward Island is a tourist-centric province that offers some great places to stay. We've put together some near-by possibilities:

All accommodations are within a 10 minute drive of Long Creek, PE. There are many options, however, summer is a very busy time here. Please consider booking accommodation when you confirm your workshop attendance.