lean timms

p h o t o g r a p h y w o r k s h o p

b y r o n b a y a u s t r a l i a

4 t h / 5 t h m a y 2 0 2 4

TWO DAY PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP IN BYRON BAY

AT NATALIE WALTONS DESIGN STUDIO AND SHOWROOM - IMPRINT HOUSE

WORKSHOP DETAILS:

Workshop Dates: Saturday 4th May and Sunday 5th May 2024

Two Day Workshop Tickets: $2800 + GST (please note you can now choose to pay in two instalments if you wish - half when you book and the final half a week before the workshop, due Friday 26th April).

Workshop Location: Imprint House, Art and Industry Estate, Byron Bay, bundjalung country.

Workshop Time: 8:30am - 5:30pm both days.

Guest Teacher: Natalie Walton - Interior stylist, designer and best selling author.

Suitable For: As a teacher it's my absolute priority to provide value for all, so this workshop is formatted for all photography lovers and levels  - including small business owners keen to up skill and create their own content, absolute beginners ready to dive in and learn, photography lovers wanting to step up and improve on their skills, those wanting to become professional photographers, and fellow photography professionals already in the field who are interested in furthering their industry insight, networking opportunities and creative nourishment.

Catering: Delicious morning tea, lunch at a local restaurant, and apero is provided on both days. For our lunch on day two, we will be indulging at the exclusive boutique beach side restaurant, Raes on Wategoes.

Please Note: Airfares, transportation and accommodation are not included. We are very happy to help with accommodation suggestions!

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:

Join me in beautiful Byron Bay for an immersive and fun two days of learning, as I openly share with you everything I know about the art of photography. These two day photography workshops are absolutely packed to the brim with educational, creative, inspiring and insightful content. It's the perfect opportunity to launch into the world of photography, or to give your love for photography some delicious nourishment. As a small group we will dig deep into digital photography. We will focus on storytelling as well as interior and travel photography, while exploring our cameras manual settings, the art of light, composition, your photography style, post processing, industry insight and so much more. The workshop will be part theory and part practical, to cover all learning styles, and with plenty of time to play and photograph our weekend together.

Our very special guest teacher, Natalie Walton, will be taking the floor for an illuminative session during the workshop. We will have a direct and unique window into Natalie’s creative world, as Natalie teaches a lesson on interior styling, as well as holding a discussion on her process and experience as a best selling author.

We will have ample opportunity to photograph the interiors of Imprint House, either with helpful guidance by Lean and Natalie, or at your own leisure.

Over the two days, we will be spoiled with the best of Byron’s hospitality scene. We will head out to a destination lunch on both days. On Sunday we will indulge at the gorgeous Raes on Wategoes for lunch, followed by a location shoot assignment on Wategoes beach to finish our workshop together on a golden Byron Bay high.

After two days together, you will go home with an abundance of photography knowledge, the ability to shoot your camera on manual settings, the confidence to approach and capture a scene using natural light, and inspiration to photograph, curate and share your own stories through imagery. Two full days means so much to cover, and I can’t wait to share everything I know and love about photography with you!

TOPICS WE WILL BE COVERING:

Natural light digital photography 101
We’ll dig into photography and camera basics, and why it’s important that you understand them. You’ll walk away with a thorough understanding of the (magical!) exposure triangle and be able to use your camera’s manual settings - including a suggestion of my favourite go to’s - to help you confidently capture a number of different subjects and styles. For the professionals, I will share lots of my own tips and personal go to settings.

Light
Nothing gets me more excited than reading and embracing natural light. I’m excited by the autumn coastal light we’ll experience together in Byron Bay. We’ll explore light direction first, it’ll blow your mind. We’ll find light and shadow and all the ways they can both make a photograph sing. We’ll work with harsh light and soft light and learn how to manipulate the outcome of both. We’ll follow it around inside Imprint House, and go hunting for it outside. I’ll share with you all my tips on light and bright photography along with the contrasting moody chiaroscuro style.

Composition
The way a photograph is framed can completely shift the way a subject is viewed. It’s a really fun game. We will play with lots of different perspectives, angles, and formulas.

Storytelling
No matter the subject, a story is always worth being told. We could spend the whole weekend on storytelling alone. I have a special formula, you’ll love it. I can’t wait to dig into this with you.

Interior Photography
Photographing interiors is a beautiful and fun process, and interior queen Natalie Walton and her showroom Imprint House, is the absolute perfect place for us to learn. I’ll share all the tips I have for taking a photograph that helps to make an interior space look delicious and inviting. Natalie will guide us with styling. There will be plenty of room for everyone to take photos. I used to be a high school teacher. Everyone will get equal amounts of love.

Travel/Location Photography
This one makes my heart sing. It’s really all about sharing a genuine sense of place. We will go for a special destination lunch on Sunday and from there set out on a travel/location photography assignment on Wategoe’s beach. I should say weather pending, but as the Swede’s say, there’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing. So bring a raincoat and your sense of adventure, just in case!

Interior Styling
Our guest teacher Natalie Walton will walk us through her interior styling tips and techniques and will answer any questions you have on her styling process.

Post Production/Editing
I will step you through my editing flow, both on Lightroom and phone. We will cover basics, explore your style, exporting tricks, and develop your own preset.

Industry Chat
Let’s chat openly. The best type of industry chat. Marketing, pricing (actual numbers!), getting published, image licensing, editorial insights, creative inspiration etc, etc. This part is always juicy, insightful, and fun.

Q&A’s
I want to answer any and all of your questions. We will have plenty of time for questions throughout the workshop, and special allocated time toward the end of our second day. I am an open book and want you to go home with loads of information and value no matter what your level in photography - so please bring your questions and I will give you all my answers!

ABOUT LEAN:

Lean Timms is an Australian travel, lifestyle and food photographer working across editorial, commercial and publishing fields, currently based on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, Canberra Australia.

Forever exploring and full of curiosity for this world, Lean’s greatest love is to discover and document inspiring places and stories. Lean’s approach to photography is driven by natural light, in situ spontaneity, storytelling and capturing a genuine sense of place. 

A once upon a time creative arts high school teacher, Lean loves to teach and share, and has been lucky enough to teach photography at workshops and retreats all around the world.

Select Photography Clients and Publications:

Tourism Australia
Condé Nast Traveller
QANTAS Travel Insider
Australian Traveller
Vogue Living
Lonely Planet

Photo 2 & 3 of Lean by Zoe Helene.

ABOUT NATALIE WALTON

Natalie Walton is an interior stylist, designer and best selling author who helps people to live their best lives, starting in their home.

She creates genuine and atmospheric interiors for clients across the globe, designs and curates beautiful and timeless products for the conscious home, and helps passionate creatives make a profitable and sustainable living doing what they love.

As the founder of Imprint House, a design studio and online emporium based in Australia, she helps people enhance the everyday. These ideas are distilled in her books This is Home: The Art of Simple Living, Still: The Slow Home, Style: The Art of Creating a Beautiful Home and her latest book Home by the Sea as well as her much-loved podcast Imprint with Natalie Walton.

Photo 1 & 2 of Natalie by Lynden Foss.

PAST WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT TESTIMONIALS:

- This workshop was everything I needed and so much more! Lean was such an incredible teacher catering for all levels of photography and bringing such a wonderful group of people together! I walked away from the workshop feeling inspired, supported and with so much more knowledge. I also left with a new community which feels like family and I’m so grateful for it! After the two days I didn’t want to leave! - Kelsey Zafiridis @kelseyzafiridis.photography

- This course was an indulgent luxury for me, and a significant investment in my current chapter of life. Lean was cognisant of this, creating an experience that felt generous, whilst still understanding her own worth. Perhaps that is just a complicated way of saying I felt like it was good value for money! Lean seamlessly navigated a class of beginners and seasoned professionals - not an easy task by any stretch. Lean’s teaching is gentle and encouraging and she managed to guide without prescribing. The content was comprehensive and informative - I thought the breadth of content was great. But most of all Lean presented in a way that was vibrant and full of humour, which is obviously just a reflection on Lean as an individual - it is invigorating to be around passion, so thank you Lean for sharing this - Hannah Lewis @penguinpantry

- Lean is magic. Her workshops are packed with detail and yet somehow easily digestible. She makes difficult concepts accessible and so. damn. beautiful. But Lean’s workshops are so much more than just the content: the locations, the food, the styling, her guest teachers - every detail is so considered and beautiful and specially created to inspire. Lean’s genuine, natural and joyful energy is contagious, and she is unfailingly generous with her time, her knowledge, her experience, and her encouragement. The workshop was a significant investment for me at the time, but turned out to be worth every cent - the weekend I spent with Lean, her fabulous co-conspirators and my equally brilliant fellow attendees was an absolute highlight of my year. I think we're all still buzzing, six months later! You're in for a treat! - Jane McCormack @janemccormack

-Where do I start in describing my experience of a Lean Timms workshop... words like generosity, wisdom, creativity, inspiring, absolute care, dedication to her craft and profession... whilst high praise, only touch the surface of the powerhouse that Lean is and the quality of what she presents. I attended her Autumn photography workshop this year (2023), and was so pleasantly surprised by the way she nurtured and held a large group of women to explore and develop in our photographic practice.  Next level.  Lean catered for a diverse group of skills in such a way that even the most seasoned photographer is humbled by the simplicity and grace in which she works.  Whether you are looking to start your journey with photography, deepen your understanding or be inspired by a different perspective. - Jennene Greenall @jennenegreenall_photographer

-Lean is a wonderfully generous teacher (and all-round lovely human!). I left her workshop creatively buzzing and in the possession of so much more photography and industry knowledge. Couldn't recommend it more! - Tilly Pamment @tillys_table

-Lean’s approach to teaching photography is a breath of fresh air. She has a knack for breaking down the scary bits into something you can actually get excited about. Camera settings, composition, lighting – she broke it down to the basics and put it into everyday context, which really helped me translate these skills to my own work. Aside from everything that we learnt, Lean as a person is incredibly kind, patient, and genuinely invested in seeing everyone grow. She was so open about the industry and really encouraged everyone to try new things. It felt more like hanging out with a super knowledgeable friend for a weekend rather than sitting in a workshop. -Bella Chambers @social.laundry

Are you keen but not quite sure yet? Do you have some questions for me? Please send me an email and I would love to chat more with you!

CANCELLATION POLICY:

Unfortunately this is a non-refundable workshop. However, we do understand that things change and COVID looms. We would like to be as flexible as possible, so should you need to rearrange, we are more than happy to rebook you to another workshop at another time. Valid travel insurance is also encouraged for your trip. Thank you for understanding.

Really hope that you can join us for a very full, very creatively inspiring weekend in beautiful Byron Bay!

Lean. X