The Recce
The recce for the Italy 2024 workshops
Here is my recce map with over 100 pins placed where abandoned buildings stand in this particular part of Tuscany. It has taken me 5 evenings to scour Google Earth to identify these clusters of potential shoot locations.
My next job is to visit them all. I'll drive down from the UK setting off in mid-March and I'll be back in early April. If all goes to plan I will have enough shoot spots for two sets of workshops.
I am basing my trip around the lovely hilltop town of Massa Marittima and the splendid Tuscan city of Siena.
This is a small selection of the buildings that I will be exploring in March.
While I'm in Tuscany I will be shooting with four models in the best of these locations. As requested, I'll set up a couple of video cameras to record behind-the-scenes videos exclusively for publishing within this course. So look out for those new videos from mid-April.
The September workshops will be made available for booking as soon as I'm back in the UK. But for now, save these dates. Workshop 1 will run from 03 to 06 September and if we have the demand I'll run a second workshop from 10 to 13 September.
If you want advanced notice of the workshops in Italy please sign up here.
Day one of my recce in Tuscany delivered great results. This is a free-to-use location and the possibilities are endless...
I did a hazard assessment and it's perfect for a shoot.
The key to finding a great shoot location is to put the effort in before you head out to an area near you. Have a few spots to check out; don't be too disappointed if they don't work out. This spot was number 12 on my recce plan and the previous 11 were unsuitable.
What I try to do on a recce is to find all my locations and then test them with various models and styling ideas to see what works well. The best of these with each of the models I've selected for the workshop are below.
The workshop details are here: https://lovegroveadventures.com/photography-workshop-tuscany-2024/
The lighting kit that I used is the Amaran 200 XS continuous light on battery power.
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