2024 Aurora Chasing in Northern Canada

Yellowknife is renowned as one of the best locations in the world to capture the spectacle of the northern lights. Scientists are also predicting that 2024 and 2025 are to be the best times for witnessing solar activity. The combination suggests that our tour will offer you the best potential to capture images of the Aurora.

Why Should You Join This Tour

We have been traveling to this location for a decade and know some of the best locations to help you translate all this visual eye candy into fantastic images. Access to photographic opportunities will be unparalleled as we travel by foot, and car to some of the most scenic landscape and lakes Northwest Territories has to offer the night sky and landscape photographer.

This tour occurs during the fall color season. While other aurora trips happen during the winter season, the temperatures are more comfortable on our tour. The lakes will offer reflections, and the landscapes will offer a colorful ground cover.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ON THIS WORKSHOP

The Yukon Fall Color Photo Workshop offers the photographer a vast diversity of subject matter to photograph. Because of this, you can expect to learn a variety of techniques:
1– Photo stacking both in your camera and in post-processing.
2– How to compose landscape photos to create more impactful images.
3– We will teach you long exposure techniques by using different shutter speeds and ND filters.
4– Photographing with black and white conversions in mind.
5– We will teach you our five proven tips to create landscape images that draw the viewers eye into your image..
6– We will teach you night sky photography techniques during our aurora outings.
7– You will learn macro photography techniques.
8– We will pay particular attention to the depth of field, and how this can impact your landscape images.
9– Before our workshop begins we will teach you our proven method of preparing for your workshop so you will confidently approach every situation we will encounter on our workshop.
10 – Our 10-step Lightroom editing tips that will make your images better.

Dates of the Workshop: September 15–20, 2024

Location of the Workshop: Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Price of Workshop: $3995USD

Inclusions: Shared lodging during our workshop. (Single available at $700) Snacks, coffee and water during our daily and nightly outings. Some Meals, Transportation during the workshop. Instruction and assistance from two professional photo instructors.

Exclusions: Alcoholic beverages, travel insurance, airfare, items of personal nature, nights required before or after the workshop.

Average temperatures in September: The average daytime highs are between 49F and 54F and the nighttime lows will average between 40F to 43F

What's in our camera bag: Two camera bodies, 14-24mm f2.8, 24-70mm f2.8, 70-200mm f2.8, polarizer and ND filters, Sturdy tripod and ballhead, wired remote, laptop, external hard drives, ample memory cards

Trip Itinerary

Day One: You will arrive in Yellowknife any time before 3:00pm today. You will transfer to the hotel and be available for a welcome dinner, and discussion on the activities for the week. Tonight, we will be headed out for our first night of photography.

Day Two to Day Five: Our schedule each day will follow a similar format. Depending on how late we are out the previous night, we will meet in the morning to review your images from the night before. During the day you will rest or explore Yellowknife. We will then head out for golden hour photography. This will lead into our aurora chasing as the night skies start to reveal the aurora and stars.

Day Six: You can schedule your flights home at any time today. We will transfer you to the airport to make your journey home.

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