Would you like to take your landscape photography to the next level while standing in front of the most impressive vistas this world has to offer? Where better to hone your photography skills than the Canadian Rockies?

Why not join my 3-day ‘Canadian Rockies Photography Workshop’ in September 2025 where I’ll teach you how to shoot these truly epic landscapes?

2024 Workshop Dates: September 14th, 15th and 16th 2024. SOLD OUT!
2025 Workshop Dates: September 12th, 13th and 14th 2025. 8 Spots Left
Price: $2600 USD
Duration: 3 days
Location: Canmore, Alberta, will be our base.
Maximum of 8 people per workshop

The Canadian Rockies inspire awe and wonder. The sheer scale and pristine quality of these mountain vistas will leave you utterly spellbound.

Join my Canadian Rockies Photography Workshop in September 2025 and let me show you how to capture the majestic beauty of these timeless mountain landscapes.

During this three-day photography workshop, I’ll show you some of my favourite shooting locations in the Banff region of the Canadian Rockies.

We’ll be shooting world-class landscapes of truly epic proportions. Your senses will be overloaded by colossal snow-capped mountains, pure lakes that act like mirrors, and long winding alpine rivers. The Canadian Rockies are a landscape photographers’ paradise all year round but the months between June and October offer the most access.

Whether you’re a complete beginner or an advanced photographer, my ‘Canadian Rockies Photography Workshop’ will give you some amazing images to take home and you’ll have lots of fun with a small group of passionate creatives.

Here’s What You’ll Learn

How to shoot for High Dynamic Range
Advanced Composition
How to Shoot Sunstars (Weather Dependent)
How to focus for Landscapes
Understand Depth of Field in Landscapes
How to get Super Sharp Landscape Images
How to take Panoramic Images

Learn all my Photography Secrets

With this three-day Canadian Rockies Photography Workshop, I’ll share with you all of my photography secrets. I’ll answer all of your questions and walk you through each technique that I use to create amazing landscape photographs. I limit this workshop to a maximum of just 8 people so that every student gets ample one-on-one time.

What’s Included?

Personalized instruction from Gavin Hardcastle
Personalized review of your portfolio from Gavin Hardcastle (optional)
Detailed and constructive critique sessions (optional)

Itinerary

Your Arrival and Pre-Workshop Meetup

You get yourself to Canmore or Banff, Alberta, Canada
Meet for a group dinner with informal introductions and sharing of stories
Prepare our Camera bags, clean lenses, charge batteries, format cards

Day 1 – The Majestic Mt Rundle

Wake up early and double-check your camera bag.
Sunrise shoot with In-field instruction at Two Jack Lake, Banff
Morning shoot at Peyto Lake
Break for Lunch
Afternoon/Sunset Shoot at Vermillion Lakes
Optional group dinner with photo critique session, download images, recharge batteries, sleep

Day 2 – Aquamarine

Wake up early and double-check your camera bag.
Morning shoot at Lake Louise
Break for Lunch
Afternoon/Sunset Shoot at Lake Minnewanka
Optional group dinner with photo critique session and questions session

Day 3 – Easy Peasy

Wake up early and double-check your camera bag.
Morning shoot at Quarry Pond
Break for Lunch
Afternoon/Sunset Shoot at The Three Sisters
Optional farewell group dinner with photo critique session and final questions session

Itinerary is subject to change based on weather and other conditions at the time of the workshop.

How it Works

In a nutshell, you’re on a 3 day shoot with me in the Canadian Rockies. That means that the itinerary above is subject to change based on weather, wildlife, and light conditions.

If the weather is utterly cloudless, we might skip a sunset shoot and push our shoot back until it gets dark so that we can shoot the Milky Way or some gorgeous star trails.

My goal is to get you the best shots possible during our workshop so be prepared to work with a fluid itinerary that helps us achieve that goal.

Nap Time

If you feel like having a nap in the middle of the day while the light is too harsh to get great pictures, that’s fine. Getting up to shoot the sunrise each day can be tiring so please don’t feel that you have to be shooting all day long if you need that power nap. Just make sure that you have enough time to get to the next shooting location.

Fitness Requirements

We won’t be doing any long hikes as most shooting locations are just short walks from the car parks or pullouts. We will however be spending hours outside, standing around and walking all over our shooting locations so a basic level of fitness and mobility is required.

If you can walk for 15 minutes and stand around for a couple of hours you’ll have no problem. Feel free to bring a camp chair if you need to chill out.

What’s Not Included

Food
Drinks
Accommodation
Transportation
Flights
Park entrance fees
Equipment
Insurance – It is MANDATORY to insure yourself against physical injury. I also advise that you insure your photographic equipment. Tour leaders will not be responsible in the event of any personal injuries or damage to photographic gear as a result of an accident during the workshop.

WHAT TO BRING

Photography Equipment

A digital camera. Don’t forget your memory cards and charger.
A sturdy tripod, ideally with a ball head.
Recommended: Wide angle lens, mid-range zoom, and super long zoom.
Recommended: A polarizing filter.
Recommended: A camera remote.
Many spare batteries for your camera.
Recommended: A camera rain cover. Even if the weather is bad, we’ll get some awesome shots.
Waterproof boots with good grip for standing in rivers and lake shores.
Clothing for all weather conditions, this is the Canadian Rockies where it can snow even in summer.

How to Get There and Where to Stay

Visitors will typically fly to Calgary. Canmore/Banff is about a 1.5-hour drive from Calgary airport.

I’ll be staying in Canmore where better deals for accommodation can be found. It’s only 18km from downtown Banff. A quick search on hotels.com should yield many choices. I would strongly advise that you arrive in Banff/Canmore at least one full day before the workshop begins just to acclimatize.

Book your accommodation early to get the best deals and to avoid zero vacancy.

You’ll need a vehicle to get to all the shooting locations but all of the journeys are fairly short. If you’d like to carpool, we’ll do our best to help but please note that transportation is NOT included in the price of your workshop.

Some of our shooting locations are within a one-hour drive of downtown Banff, with many being just 10 minutes.