Lake District Landscape Photography Workshop - DAY 3 - Buttermere
Its often hard to put into words just how special the Lake District can be, and this Day 3 of my April 2025 Lake District Photography Workshop was the PERFECT example of this
Here’s a few words that suited this particular morning…
…amazing - astonishing - astounding - breathtaking - dazzling - dramatic - eye-catching - FABULOUS - fantastic - magnificent - marvelous - remarkable - sensational - striking - stunning - thrilling - wondrous !!!
Ok - I admit it - I did hit the Thesaurus a bit for this one lol
So Day 3 was all about really putting into place the concepts of the previous 2 days - composition, separation, timing, DoF, aperture choice, Hyperfocal Focusing and several other concepts were all talked through at every point; then my attendees were let loose to let their creative juices flow
As ever - I suggested they worked my 3-point formula…
shoot the obvious
shoot the less obvious
shoot the details
As you can see from this first image (a 3-shot panorama), conditions were as close to perfect as you could imagine
Unusually, they also stayed like this for the next 5 hours !!!
This allowed us to move around the lake nice and slowly, returning to a few spots to reshoot them in better/different light as the Sun tracked across the landscape before us
I’ve been to Buttermere MANY times and never before had a day as wonderful as this - jammy buggers - I kept telling my attendees lol
As you can see there I kept to my recommended ‘wide-open’ or ‘stopped-down’ for these images, so I shot the day at either f2.8 or f11
I was also demonstrating layering & differential focus too
We did move on to Crummock Water too, but couldn’t park anywhere near the Buttermere end, but we did have a lovely couple of hours at the far end; with some long exposure work by the weir too
What an amazing day :)
Do you fancy a…
Lake District Landscape Photography Workshop
Or even a Bespoke 1-2-1 ???
If so, drop me an email here dave@scapesphotography.co.uk
Give me a call on 07830 085 112
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Landscape Photography in its main three forms of Land - Sea - City is about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on, especially in a venue as special as Buttermere
The better you become in your Landscape Photography the more you will…
ENJOY YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY