For your private photo tour, we offer two options:

• To custom your self-booked itinerary according to your preferences on the type of photography and areas of interest (please email us your preferences).
• Pick one of our two suggested photo tours described on the itinerary page.

WHAT TO EXPECT TO ACHIEVE THROUGH YOUR ATHENS PHOTO TOUR:

Enhance Your Travel Experience through Photography.
The best travel experiences usually happen when meeting locals. A camera provides the perfect excuse to go beyond simply what can be seen, to discover the authentic culture of a new place. By stopping and talking to people, the search for great images turns into a quest for more fulfilling travel experiences.
Shoot in the Field.
Train your eye to capture images that make an impact. Learn how to navigate your surroundings and work with light, colour, background, and other influences and challenges inherent in each unique setting. Gain a better technical understanding of how to use your camera’s body, lenses, and various settings.
Tell Stories through Pictures.
More than just taking pictures is to express powerful ideas through photography. So you will be taught how to expand your ability to choose compelling subjects and portray them in more meaningful ways.
Improve Your Photographs of People.
Learn to capture a person’s true character and special moments in their lives while making it a rewarding experience for both of you. Create Compelling Compositions Understand how to create stronger, more interesting compositions using a wide angle, normal, and telephoto lenses. Discover new ways to use colour and pattern to add depth, emotion, and graphic power to your images.

ATHENS – A HISTORICAL MODERN DAY METROPOLIS

Athens, the capital of Greece is a magnificent city that combines past and present in perfect harmony. Its unique landscape provides the backdrop for one of the most individual cities in Europe, welcoming people with a thirst for knowledge and beauty. No other capital city in Europe has the combination of so many moments in time imprinted in its subconscious – from ancient Greece, to Ancient Rome and Byzantium and from the Ottomans through to Modern Greece. An intense city characterised best by its history and decorated perfectly with good food, blue seas, sun and light.

The opportunity of seeing Athens’ many faces through the photographic lens and of telling this city’s long and magnificent story through the art of photography is a great challenge for any photo-enthusiast. During these four hours, which this photography workshop tour provides you with, you will find all of your senses brought together to produce an array of unique photographic images each bursting to tell their own story!

For your private photo tour, we offer two options:

• To custom your self-booked itinerary according to your preferences on the type of photography and areas of interest (please email us your preferences).
• Pick one of the beneath suggested photo tours:

1. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE ANCIENTS

A wondrous photo tour walk around the Acropolis, Plaka, Thiseio, and Dionysiou Areopagitou street. All these areas intertwine and produce a magnificent picture of the ancient Athenian past waiting to be captured by your lenses. As you walk the pedestrianised Dionysiou Areopagitou street admiring the houses and passing the ancient Herod Atticus amphitheatre, the Acropolis stands majestically above you watching patiently. Capturing the grandeur of the Parthenon will be a moment to remember. Opposite the Acropolis, Philopappos Hill, taking its name from the spectacular Philopappos Monument erected in 116AD, awaits to be photographed. As you walk through the vestiges of time, from ancient to modern times, through the area of Plaka, its whitewashed houses –Anafyotika– and reach Thiseio – named after the Temple of Hephaestus located in the ancient Agora you would have feasted on an ever-changing kaleidoscope of images

Suggested date time: 9.30 am or 5.00 pm
Meeting point: Before the steps of the Acropolis museum entrance

Note: We usually save some time for a coffee break in order to have a quick review on your photos by the photographer.

2. DOWNTOWN ATHENS

Document the bustling and arty life in the neighbourhood of Psiri and the bohemian one of the nearby Keramikos. Psyri is a mixture of old and new points of interest side by side. Old fashioned artisans workshops, hidden alleys, counter culture and alternative spaces, street art, popular bars and traditional tavernas, coexist in harmony, creating a fascinating atmosphere full of surprises.  Keramikos shares some of the same points excluding the volume and the fancy keeping its calm and bohemian character unscathed and a distance from the tourist hordes. Both areas offer a wide array of street photography opportunities and comprise some of the most interesting faces of the non-classical Athens.

Suggested date time: 9.30 am or 5.00 pm
Meeting point: At the Monastiraki square before the entrance of the Church.

Note: We usually save some time for a coffee break in order to have a quick review on your photos by the photographer.

– Professional, english speaking photographer
– All taxes included

Not included

– Any personal expenses
– Entrance fees in any site

Menelaos was influenced by John Loengard, Richard Avedon, Robert Doisneau, Dave Hill, Federico Fellini, Orson Welles, Karl Barks, Alfred Hitchcock, Karl Marx and Marx Brothers, DaDa, by Flemish painters especially by Johannes Vermeer and some others…

Top tip: Professionals talk mainly about the money and prizes, amateurs mostly about the equipment. Real photographers talk mainly about the light. Read more about Menelaos Myrillas .

George lives in Athens. During last years he does several workshops and training courses for amateur and professional photographers alike, mainly teaching image editing and how-to photographic techniques. He is relentlessly working on personal photographic projects concerning Greek cultural heritage. Read more about George Tsafos.

EQUIPMENT

DSLR’s or Mirrorless are preferred, but today’s high-end compact cameras are very impressive too. For those carrying just their mobile’s camera, it’s an excellent occasion to focus on framing and composition.

Once completing registration, you will be contacted by the photography instructors and you will be sent the full list of the prerequisites.

NOTES

Since we will be walking, comfortable shoes are required.

When photographing in archaeological sites or Museums, tripods and flash are not allowed. All photographs in archaeological sites or Museums are for our own personal use, images or using them for commercial purposes requires a special photography license issued by the Greek Ministry for Education and Culture.

When we have a street photography tour, you may need to ask people if it is OK to take their picture. If you have a language problem or feel uncomfortable, let us do the talking.