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Lisbon Photo Tour
What you'll learn
Some of the things you will learn:
* how to use light and shadows, colours and forms in a creative way
* how to use photographic techniques to create your personal vision
* how to get the best photos in every situation
* how to be always ready to capture the moment.
Your Photographer
Alexandre is a professional free-lance photographer born and raised in Lisbon. His credits include foreign magazines and the most renowned Portuguese magazines and newspapers. He is a regular contributor to National Geographic Portugal and in 2004 was awarded with the “Prémio Visão” for the best reportage of the year. He regularly lectures workshops since 2001.
Languages: English, Portugese
Adventures thru the Lens - Lisbon Photo Tours
This tour offers participants an authentic city adventure and rare opportunity to experience Lisbon from an insider’s point of view.
Your professional photographic guide will point out details invisible to the untrained eye and reveal the best vantage-points on your chosen route. Learn to tell a story through images, take great shots of iconic monuments and capture atmospheric images off the beaten track.
Be ready for the unexpected, on an Adventure thru the Lens.
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Inquiry FormPrivate Cost: 300€ per group up to 4
Non PrivateCost : 125€ pp minimum 2
Duration: 4hrs
Private Departures: Saturday 9:00am
Route - A Maritime Crossroad
Discover the beautiful city of Lisbon and it’s unparalleled light. On your journey you will not only have the opportunity to watch and photograph some of the most charismatic city’s monuments, but also to explore picturesque neighbourhoods usually not visited by tourists.
Lisbon's first settlements date back from the Neolithic, and the town was later occupied by Phoenician, Roman and Moorish people who left monuments and traditions. The city was conquered from the moors by the first king of Portugal in 1147. In the XVIII century Lisbon was the capital of an Empire stretching from Africa to India; in 1755 downtown was destroyed by a huge earthquake and tsunami, and was later rebuilt by the Regent, Marquês de Pombal, according to a revolutionary urbanism plan that endures in modern Lisbon.
In this experience you will feel and capture this colourful blend of antique and modern, of Orient and Occident, of North and South of Mediterranean and Atlantic. Today, Lisbon is a modern capital and one of the most cosmopolitan in the whole world. There are large Asian, Easterner European, African and Latin American communities living peacefully together. This is what gives Lisbon such a special and unique atmosphere.
Your guide will be available to explain all technical aspects of photography, but he will focus on giving hints to help you express your own personal interpretation of the place.
Our route will guide you from the sophisticated Chiado trough the monumental Praça do Comercio where the city meets his ancient companion the Tagus River. Then we will follow to Alfama, an old moorish neighbourhood with a medina like structure were the “fado” (traditional Portuguese folk song) seeps from the windows. Finally we will gain the castle hill and enjoy the nicer views over Lisbon.