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Friday 21 - Sunday 23 November 2025

Capture, Process & Print Weekend Workshop (CHCH)

Location: Christchurch Central

Workshop Length: 3 days, 2 nights

Investment:

$1,159 NZD ( 2 nights accommodation)

$999 no accomodation

Max attendees on course: 14

Sponsored by:

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Kase Filters New Zealand logo with red text and registered trademark symbol.

Note: Transport may be available from Christchurch Airport at 12pm on Friday 21st returning on Sunday 23rd by 2pm. Please advise if required.

Overview

This all-encompassing photography weekend workshop (co-hosted with Rachel Gillespie) will provide you with all the photography skills you need from the minute you pick up your camera to shoot in the outdoors right through to printing your best work. Learn from two of NZ’s top-rated professional photographers over this full immersion weekend designed to help you develop your skills in every area you need to succeed as a landscape photographer.

What you'll experience

We’ll help you learn what’s required to capture an outstanding landscape image from settings to lighting and composition. We’ll also cover best practice processes for successfully managing your image library, how to edit your images to fully realise their raw potential. We'll take you right through to the process of successfully printing your best work and sharing it online, and you'll take home a fine art print of your best image from the weekend.

Your Hosts

Meghan Maloney

I'm a full-time landscape photographer, and my greatest passion is helping you discover your photography potential through photography adventures around New Zealand. Whether it's teaching you the art of capturing beautiful images with the help of filters, helping you to transform your raw images into stunning works of art in Lightroom, learning how to improve your workflow, or simply having a grand adventure together in amazing places, you will come away from my workshops filled with new knowledge and skills, not to mention amazing memories.

When not photographing and educating, I'm a mum to two teenage boys and I spend my time sideline supporting their football endeavours, and finding places to go hiking in NZ's outdoors.

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Rachel Gillespie

Rachel Gillespie is a full time photographer based in Canterbury, and a mum of three. She has a passion in astrophotography, and the photography business education. Rach says: "for me it's about the adventure, the challenge and the ability to push my limits to keep educating myself that has been my personal inspiration.  I love helping people which took me into guiding in the tourism industry for many years also, now I would love to spend my time helping you to master your gear, find your area of skill and grow that to become one of New Zealand's top photographers"

You can check out Rachel's work on her website and Instagram.

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  • Capture (Planning & Execution)

    • Two outdoor seascape sunset shoots (or sunrise depending on weather conditions)

    • How to plan a successful outdoor shoot using PhotoPills and weather apps

    • The art of using filters for long exposures, best settings and techniques

    • Understanding how to use various natural lighting techniques to create depth and interest in your images

    • Composition techniques that will enable you to create images that WOW

    • Intentional Camera Movement techniques for seascapes

    Process (Manage, Catalogue & Edit)

    • How to manage your images (storage, backup, cataloguing)

    • Best practice techniques for editing your raw images

    • Exposure management, colour management, cropping for composition, removing distractions using advanced tools

    • Detailed Lightroom sessions with your images taken during the weekend

    Print (Sharing & Printing)

    • Techniques for sharing your work online on social media / websites / blogs

    • Best practices for printing your work 

    • A 2 hour printing session with local photography store

    • Your best image as a 8” x 12” fine art print to take home from the weekend

    • Hands-on tuition from two of NZ's leading landscape photographers

    • A series of indoor sessions designed to improve your entire photography workflow

    • Use of KASE neutral density and polariser filters while in the field

    • Use of Sony cameras and lenses (please advise gear you would like to try at least 3 weeks before)

    • Two nights accommodation in twin share (or single, first come first served), morning and afternoon tea

    • Transport for the weekend (if required from Christchurch Airport, or the meeting point in central Christchurch)

    • LAPTOP WITH BOTH LIGHTROOM CLASSIC & PHOTOSHOP INSTALLED

    • Camera and lenses (wide angle i.e. 16-35mm through to telephoto 70-200mm or 100-400mm for wildlife)

    • STURDY Tripod - very important

    • Neutral density filters (please enquire if you need to borrow any 2-3 sets are available)

    • Warm & wet weather gear (waterproof jacket, umbrella, waterproof camera sleeve, hat and gloves, gumboots or bare feet to shoot among the waves)

    • Torch or head torch

    • Spare batteries / charger

    • Memory cards / adapter to link with laptop

    • Remote shutter control (for exposures in bulb timer mode)

    • A willingness to learn and a sense of fun and adventure!

    • The full workshop fee is $1,159 NZD ($999 no accommodation)

    • A deposit of $200 is required to be paid to secure your place for the workshop

    • The remaining balance is to be paid no later than 21 September and is payable to Meghan Maloney Photography via bank transfer or credit card (3% fee applies)

    • 4 x payment plans are also available please enquire for this option.

    • If you do not require accommodation, please advise when booking.

  • Please read the Terms & Conditions for attending this event.

Let’s sign you up!

  • See what my workshop attendees say

    "I have always struggled with my landscape photography, and the workshop delivered by Meghan was extremely beneficial. She helped me to “See “ things, which made composition easier, and she encouraged me to use camera settings that I had not tried before. Meghan went above and beyond in taking us to locations and with her vast knowledge of the area we were able to enjoy some amazing landscape photography. The time spent together was relaxed and comfortable and I felt at ease throughout the two days of learning"

    Sue, Tauranga

  • See what my workshop attendees say

    "Thanks, Meghan - the Scent of Summer Lupin workshop was really great. Plenty of time to get out and shoot and just enough of the inside stuff. The organization, accomodation and the whole flow of the workshop went really well. I really appreciated the care you took to make sure we were able to do the things we were interested in. And thanks for persevering with the flight - it was totally worth it. Nga mihi nui.”

    Chris, Auckland

  • See what my workshop attendees say

    "I completed a one day, 1:1 workshop with Meghan recently and loved the day - we visited 3 separate photo locations to cover various photography skills and used the results from these locations for post processing tuition; including topics of photo editing, focus stacking, panorama processing, photoshop layer editing and more, - Meghan's knowledge base is truely impressive. She is professional, provides an unbelievable amount of information, and is easy to interact with - it's a fantastic day and I highly recommend this workshop to anyone wanting to advance their landscape photography skills.

    Kevin, Tauranga