Maui Photo Adventure

Spend 5 full days photographing and exploring all that Maui has to offer! Join Eddie Tapp, Canon Explorer of Light, Judy Host Master of using available Light and Randy Hufford of the Institute of Visual Arts Maui as they uncover Maui’s amazing photographic opportunities and show you how to capture images with drama, impact, and WOW factor. This workshop is designed for anyone interested in advancing their experiences in digital imaging and workflows from experienced professionals to all who love the medium and want to advance to the next level.

April in Maui is incredible, offering the photographer almost too many choices. Beautiful beaches with perfect sand (from white to black,) the deepest blue-green water and waves, amazing skies, coconut palms, and crashing waves. The stark, alpine landscape of the island’s volcanoes. Prepare for the wonder of the almost lunar experience. Deep bamboo forests hiding amazing streams, pools, cliffs, waterfalls and more. Dramatic land and seascapes of tropical paradise, dramatic cliffs, plunging waterfalls, huge waves, and more. An incredibly diverse flora!

Randy, Eddie and Judy will lead you to Maui’s best shooting locations and demonstrate the tips, techniques, and tricks to photograph it all. You will experience and learn so many different types of photography. This trip will change your shooting life. • Slow shutter speed work to blur waves and waterfalls • Action • Macro • Landscape • Panoramas • High Dynamic Range (HDR) • Flash • Available light • Doing a model shoot.

The 5 days also include in-lab processing time and Digital Printing Workshop at The Institute of Visual Arts. Eddie will demonstrate image optimization workflow and help you create amazing images using Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Photomatix Pro, Topaz filters, and more! You will also receive a personalized review of your shooting to help refine your techniques to create more impressive photos and art!

During this course each participant will learn the fundamentals of working with canvas, printing, and finishing incredible pieces. You will print, coat, stretch, and finish an 16” x 24” gallery wrapped canvas of one of your images! Canvas is a wonderful media to work with and you will learn the secrets, tips, tricks, and techniques!

Here is how the schedule will work. Five days of intensive photographic immersion. From sunrise to sunset. With available lab time in the evenings.

Day 1
It will start with a group breakfast 8am provided by IVAMAUI at Grandma’s Coffee house located at “the Shops of Keokea” in Keokea. We will then proceed to Institute of Visual Arts Maui located in Kula, just minutes from Grandma’s Coffee house. This first class room experience will allow us to mingle, get to know each other and learn about shooting suggestions and techniques. Lunch will be available from Chef Rebecca around 1pm. We than will conclude with a slide show revealing opportunities of locations on Maui. Around 4pm we will depart to our sunset location. Please note that weather depending we change our locations at the last minute in order to provide the greatest opportunity to capture the most beautiful light. Optional lab time available for you to download and work on your images at IVAMAUI in lieu of participating in sunrise or sunset shoots. Lab will be open 8 to 10am and 4 to 6pm.

Day 2 and 3
Start with an OPTIONAL Early Morning sunrise shoot. This is dependent on the weather and is chosen the previous afternoon. This can change depending on weather and the optimum lighting conditions. This early morning shoot we will usually meet at 4am at IVAMAUI or other location to car pool and gather together as many of us as possible to head out for our location. Breakfast is on your own with us meeting at 11am at IVAMAUI for our next class room session. Lunch will be at 1pm with the option of lunch prepared by Chef Rebecca. From 2pm to 4pm more educational workflow teaching time.

Days 1,2,3 will end with a optional sunset shoot at 4pm or choose to stay at the computer lab and work on your images.

Days 2, 3, and 4 will have optional lab time available from 8 to 10 am

Day 1, 2 and 3 will have optional lab time from 4 to 6pm

Photo Adventure Maui specializes in getting great images of Maui. In order to do this we have to be flexible with timing and location. Weather plays a big part in this decision making process. Although we have published start times we do not always adhere to a specific schedule if circumstance dictate a change.

Day 4 and 5
We will concentrate primarily on preparing files, outputting canvas, finishing canvas and stretching canvas of one of your images.

SCHEDULE

Day 1
8am Meet at Grandma’s for breakfast
10am Meet IVAMAUI Computer Lab Workshop
1pm Lunch with option for Chef Rebecca luncheon at IVAMAUI
2pm Computer Lab Workshop
4 to 6pm Optional lab time
4pm Head to evening sunset shoot

Day 2
4am OPTIONAL early morning shoot
8 to 10am Optional Lab time
10am breakfast on own
11am Meet IVAMAUI Computer Lab Workshop
1pm Lunch with option for Chef Rebecca luncheon at IVAMAUI
2pm Computer Lab Workshop
4 to 6pm optional lab time
4pm Head to evening sunset shoot

Day 3
4am OPTIONAL early morning shoot
8 to 10am Optional Lab time
10am breakfast on own
11am Meet IVAMAUI Computer Lab Workshop
1pm Lunch with option for Chef Rebecca luncheon at IVAMAUI
2pm Computer Lab Workshop
4 to 6pm optional lab time
4pm Head to evening sunset shoot

Day 4
8 to 10am Optional Lab time
10am Meet IVAMAUI Computer Printing Lab Workshop
1pm Lunch with option for Chef Rebecca luncheon at IVAMAUI
2pm Computer Lab Printing Workshop
3pm student slide show and portfolio critique
4 to 6pm make sure all canvas has been output and prepared for stretching

Day 5
8 to 10am Optional Lab time
10am Meet IVAMAUI Computer Printing Lab Workshop
1pm Lunch with option for Chef Rebecca luncheon at IVAMAUI
2pm Computer Lab Printing Workshop
5pm class dismissed

Requirements for Class

Laptop loaded with:
Photoshop CS4
Lightroom 2
Photomatix

Camera body
Back up body if you so desire
Wide angle or wide angle zoom lens (I highly recommend a 24-70mm for both Canon and Nikon shooters)
Relatively short telephoto zoom (recommend something like a 70-200mm)
Other lens choices you might find useful -macro -super wide angle or fish-eye -longer telephoto (out to maybe 400mm)
Flash
Camera battery and backup (some shoots will last multiple hours) -expect a much higher battery usage rate if working live view -and I’ll have y’all using it a lot)
Battery charger
Compact Flash or SD cards to support long shoots. They are hands down the best available. Remember your usage will be much higher if shooting HDR, pano, or HDR pano. -stable tripod -solid ball-head (if you have a panorama attachment/kit bring it along. Quick warning, once you start shooting panos you will do it all the time!
Cable release
Intervalometer if you have one (works great on your backup camera for shooting a time lapse “movie”)
Foul weather gear for you and your equipment. I don’t use anything fancy. I typically carry a towel and a few large trash bags.
Card reader , laptop or mobile storage device
Sunscreen -hat -sunglasses
Cold weather gear for Haleakala, gloves, hat coat