Ladakh Photography Tours & workshops

Majestic Himalayan mountain peaks

A 14-day photography tour of Ladakh.

Join me for a fabulous photography tour of Ladakh in northern India. Known as Little Tibet, the tour will see us discover places such as Leh and the Nubra Valley which we will access via the world’s highest motorable road. The photo opportunities will include the mountain landscape along with a festival or two as well as the local culture. 

Tour details

Basic information

Group size

Max 5

Duration

14 nights / 15 days

Price

TBC

Fitness Level

Medium - be prepared for the high altitude

Our base

Various hotels and campsite

STUNNING HIMALAYAN SNOW-CAPPED MOUNTAINS

Ladakh sits between the Himalaya and the Karakoram mountain ranges. For landscape photographers this offers you a chance to capture these stunning mountain ranges.

Towering to nearly 7800m high, every day we will be amongst these stones giants as we traverse the valleys.

High mountains surrounding the Nubra Valley in Ladakh, India.
High mountains surrounding the Nubra Valley in Ladakh, India. At over 3000m, or 9800ft, Ladakh is the highest mountain plateau in India. It encompases the Himalayan and Kunlun mountain ranges.
Buddhist monks at the Takthok Tsetu Festival in Ladakh, India.

Colourful Festivals

Ladakh is known for its colourful festivals held each year in conjunction with the lunar calendar.

The photo opportunities at these festivals for travel photographers are endless. From the colourful costumes to the dances and rituals that follow.

The Ladakh photo tour will be based around one or two of these festivals so that we can fully immerse ourselves in the local culture.

Photograph Tribal Culture

There are a number of tribal people that inhabit the mountainous valleys of Ladakh.

We will endeavour to get up close and engage with them in order to get stunning travel portraiture photography.

 

A woman from the Brokpa Tribe in the Aryan Valley of Ladakh in Northern India.
A woman from the Brokpa Tribe in the Aryan Valley of Ladakh in Northern India. Also known as the Buddhist Dard Tribe, the Brokpa Tribe are found in Ladakh. They origins are said to be traced back to Alexander the Great.

Photography techniques covered during the workshop

  • Exposure and understanding of how to get the best out of the light
  • Composition techniques to create balanced images
  • Lens choice and focal length. Typically people head for the wide-angle in a landscape but up in the mountains telephoto lenses are also heavily used.
  • Panoramic photography. How to best compose the beautiful panoramas that we’ll see during the photography tour
  • Using Adobe Lightroom or Camera Raw to process our images
  • Using luminosity masks in Adobe Photoshop
  • Colour correction
  • Stitching panoramic images

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