Golden India
We start in bustling Delhi visiting the famous Red Fort, Humayun’s Tomb and the hub of activity on the streets of Old Delhi. A highlight to the trip is the annual Pushkar Camel Fair where 50,000 camels are sold, decorated and raced. A sleepy holy town where pilgrims come to bathe in the sacred Pushkar Lake in order to "wash away the sins of a lifetime" turns into a riot of colour as villagers from far and near gather together to buy, sell and celebrate.

The fair is a mass of stalls selling glittering necklaces, bangles, intricate silver ornaments and crafts from across Rajasthan, as well as the paraphernalia associated with the camels themselves including saddles, colourful beads, woven and embroidered saddle-straps. This is a wonderful way to capture the vibrancy of Rajasthan and there is a wealth of photographic opportunities, with the barren desert providing a stunning backdrop to elegantly dressed, preened and perfumed camels and their equally stylish owners.

We also visit Rajasthan’s capital and largest city, Jaipur. The ancient and exquisitely beautiful city offers us wonderful Indian architecture including magnificent carved arches, marble columns and the striking Hawa Mahal palace with its intricately carved jali screens. In contrast to bustling Jaipur is the abandoned yet stunning city of Fatehpur Sikri, once the capital of the Mughal Empire. However the architectural jewel is at Agra, home to the sophisticated elegance of the Taj Mahal. The change in colour of the white marble at sunrise and sunset is amazingly beautiful. We have plenty of time to photograph the beautiful attire of the Indian people who are visiting the monument and explore the Taj from alternative advantage points.

Our journey would not be complete without travelling to the holiest city in India, Varanasi. We’ll capture the mood and atmosphere along the river Ganges, with its ancient temples providing an excellent backdrop to the pilgrims bathing at the many Ghats and performing their morning prayers to the rising sun.

Photographic Experience Tour Content
On our Photographic Experience Tours our experienced photographic tutors will guide you and help you improve your skills in taking excellent landscape, travel and candid photographs. We guide you through the process of understanding your camera in a truly magnificent country. We will help you optimise the lighting in a variety of situations from colourful local markets and vibrant street scenes to magnificent panoramas. We would hope to cover the following:
Composition
Optimising light
Camera Use
Different types of lenses
Tripod use
Shutter speeds, apertures
Exposures
Understanding histograms
Depth of field
Hyperfocal distance
Methods of shooting images i.e. file formats (raw, jpeg)
Creative use of filters
Metering (using different modes e.g. evaluative)
Candid street photography & Night photography

Digital Content
Once you have taken an image, processing it correctly becomes very important. By learning how to use the variety of tools within Photoshop you will really begin to transform your photography. There will be tutorials on how to use Photoshop throughout the tour. We hope to cover the following:

Importing your images
Organising your digital workflow using Adobe Bridge
Various file formats and their uses
Image Manipulation, which includes cropping, curves, levels, colour correction, changing from colour to monochrome, selections, layers, adjustment layers, layer masks, stitching images to create panoramas, use of filters with layers, sharpening.

This tour allows the time a photographer needs in order to gain a fresh perspective of India, its streets, beautiful fairy-tale palaces, imposing forts and attractive mosques while aiming to capture the charisma of India’s colourful people.