Join expert Skip Spitzer for a photography course that teaches backcountry hiking techniques to capture stunning landscapes while ensuring safety and environmental responsibility.
This course is all about taking your photography deeper into the backcountry, where the best landscapes are hiding! You’ll learn how to hike safely, plan your shoots, and enjoy the great outdoors while capturing stunning images. Get ready for some adventure and fun!
Backcountry Hiking for Photographers
To get a great landscape shot, you usually need a great landscape! There are some great ones that are easy to get to. Yet so many great landscapes lay far beyond the parking lot, in the backcountry. It’s a truly vast world of exquisite visual delight and photographic adventure. This class will teach you how to get TO the great landscape.
Even if you already get out on the trail, this class will help you get in deeper, to more engaging subject matter, and to hike more efficiently, safely, and comfortably, while protecting the natural world that inspires you to make photographs in the first place. And it will extend your passion for photography into a driving force for personal health and well-being. Hiking nourishes the body and the soul!
I’m Skip Spitzer, photographer and founder of Getting Deeper into the Wilderness, and I’ll be your instructor. I have more than 30 years of backcountry experience.
In this 1 ¾ hour course, you’ll learn about backcountry light, hike and shoot planning, hiking gear, photography gear, conditioning, pre- and post-hike details, responsible backcountry travel, hiking form, environmental and wildlife hazards, what more advanced skills you may want to learn, and bit about overnight backcountry travel to get you even deeper into the wilderness.
Material is presented through concise, entertaining video lectures, and includes tools and other handouts too. You can ask questions, and see answers to others’ questions, in the Questions area. I answer questions every 1-3 days.
If you are a photographer who wants to get TO the great landscape, this class is for you.
Sounds good? Let’s go!
Learn how to plan and prepare for backcountry hikes and shoots
Learn how to travel and shoot in the backcountry safely, comfortably, effectively, and responsibly
Learn the photographic value of backpacking, whether or not it is for you, and how to continue exploring overnight backcountry travel
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Skip Spitzer is a photographer and principal of Getting Deeper into the Wilderness and Wilderness Skills PDX, where he teaches hiking, backpacking, and other outdoor skills. A skilled and experienced educator and outdoorsman, Skip has been hiking and backpacking the backcountry for more than 30 years. He was certified in Wilderness First Aid by the Wilderness Medicine Institute. Skip is...
Some interesting ideas, especially about shooting in the middle of the day. If you're not camping & doing a day walk to/from a location the middle of the day is probably when you'll be shooting. Most would advise don't but it is often the only option when you aren't camping out..
Definitely learned a few things I didn't know. Thank you.
This course is very well done and has tons of useful information for photographers who want to learn about shooting in the wilderness. It's fun, professional, and very well thought out.
Good introduction to hiking, review of basic techniques and issues that should be considered prior to the adventure into the wild country, but sometimes it is the basics that we need to be reminded of.
I found Skip's course to be very informative and entertaining, and I especially enjoyed Skip's sense of humor. As an experienced photographer and backcountry hiker, I still learned things. The information is presented in a manner that's easy to understand, and I recommend this course for anyone interested in venturing out into the wilderness for some photo adventures. Thanks Skip for sharing your knowledge with us.
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Alexander B. M.
I find it easy to follow !