Tour Services
"Dusk to Dark" or Night Photography Experience
A leisurely walkabout along Hobart's Waterfront, Salamanca and city parks to capture stunning low-light images. Enhance your low-light photography skills with the guidance of award-winning photographer, Roy Vieth. Learn more about your camera, use a tripod and discover the settings to use for different scenes.
All locations and activities are specifically chosen for their photogenic qualities on the evening of your walkabout.
"Dusk to Dark" photography experience can be booked as a cruise ship shore excursion when in port for an overnight stay
Price: AUD120 per person
Inclusions: Three hour walkabout with expert photograph tuition and light supper
Meeting point: The Henry Jones Art Hotel (in foyer), 25 Hunter Street, Hobart
Capturing Close-Ups
Bring detail to life through macro (close-up) photography; be inspired to look at nature more closely. Discover the often-overlooked finer details of plants, flowers and insects and reveal these through your photography.
Available all year round
Time: 0830 to 1230
Cost: AUD145 per person
Inclusions: Four hour walkabout with expert photography tuition and morning tea.
Meeting point: Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens Visitor Centre
One-On-One Photography Experience Half Day
Exclusively focus on your personal photography ambitions with practical in-the-field one-on-one tuition.
You willl discover your inner shutterbug and experience the art of photography at a new level. No matter what your skill or the type of camera you own, Roy Vieth will provide expert tuition to enhance your visual and technical skills to capture awe-inspiring images.
Cost: AUD320 Based one (1) person.
Available all year round with dates and locations in and around Hobart tailored to your objectives.
You may like to bring a friend along or someone who has same passion for photography or is happy to share your experience while you take time with your photography pursuit(s). Refer to our website for discounted cost per person.
One-On-One Photography Experience Full Day
Exclusively focus on your personal photography ambitions with practical in-the-field one-on-one tuition.
You will discover your inner shutterbug and experience the art of photography at a new level. No matter what your skill or the type of camera you own, Roy Vieth will provide expert tuition to enhance your visual and technical skills to capture awe-inspiring images.
Cost: AUD499
Based one (1) person.
Available all year round with dates and locations in and around Hobart tailored to your objectives.
You may like to bring a friend along or someone who has same passion for photography or is happy to share your experience while you take time with your photography pursuit(s). Refer to our website for discounted cost per person.
Master Your Camera
Roy Vieth is available to meet you at your hotel or a café to show how you can achieve the best from your camera allowing you to take more creative photos.
Guidance may comprise a variety of topics from unveiling any hidden features of your camera to post-processing techniques using Lightroom, Photoshop or Aperture.
Available within a 25 kilometre radius of Hobart CBD (Greater Hobart region)
Available all year round by arrangement.
COST: AUD110 for first hour; AUD55 per subsequent hour
Ferns, Fungi and Waterfalls nature photography tour
This is a nature photography experience for you to discover techniques for low-light, close-up and waterfall photography in a natural rainforest environment.
You will be surrounded by tree-ferns providing many an opportunity for creative photography – the colours, patterns and textures of the fern fronds, water droplets on the foliage and beautiful fungi (mushrooms) emerging from the nutrient rich forest floor.
Plenty of stops along the way including a waterfall where you can practice different techniques to capture a soft flowing effect of water as it tumbles over the edge. Along the way, you may encounter some native wildlife too!
Operates daily by request. 9am to 12 noon or 1.30pm to 4.30pm. Cost: $120.00 per person for a half-day experience.
Chalet to the Organ Pipes Nature Photography Tour
Atop Mount Wellington sits the Chalet picnic hut and the iconic Organ Pipes and walking track.
Throughout this walk at 1,000m (3,280ft.) above sea level on the upper Southern slopes of Mount Wellington, you will have plenty of time to experiment with different techniques and camera settings to help achieve better photos. You will be guided by Roy Vieth, a photographer with more than 35 years’ experience so he'll have some hints and tips for you along the way.
The environment of sub-alpine woodland offers a myriad of landscape and nature photography opportunities including vistas of Hobart, the iconic Organ Pipes towering above, seasonal native wildflowers, colourful berries and birdlife. Misty days won't disappoint. There's a certain eeriness of photographing snow gums in the fog and there's always some great close-up subjects too.
Taking a break along the track just below the very impressive organ pipes, we retrace our steps returning to 'The Chalet' for a hot beverage and photography discussion.
Meeting Point: "The Chalet" Pinnacle Road, Wellington Park
Tour cost is AUD120 per person.
Tour cost is $120.00 per person.
Personalised Tour
Customise your very own experience - from short tours and walkabouts to a 'Photographer's Big Day Out'. Southern Tasmania offers a diverse range of excellent attractions, activities and experiences that you may like to incorporate into your overall Shutterbug Walkabouts and Tasmanian experience.
Contact us to discuss the experiences and attractions that you would most enjoy and we will tailor an experience especially for you. The cost will vary according to your selection of activities.
If you are visiting Hobart on a cruise ship, we will create a half-day or full-day experience to suit your schedule
Tahune Forest Reserve and Airwalk
Travelling south into the Huon Valley and via the historic towns of Huonville, Franklin and Geeveston take in the breathtaking scenery of rolling hills and mountains that Tasmania is so well known for, pausing for a photo wherever possible, arriving at Tahune Forest Reserve one and a half to two hours later.
Your photography experience at Tahune Forest Reserve will include a walk in the canopy of magnificent towering treetops along the Tahune Airwalk, an exhilarating walk over the Huon and Picton Rivers on swinging bridges, a wander among the ancient Huon Pines and other leisurely walks within the reserve. Be captivated by the tranquillity and let your photographic creativity be inspired by the panoramas and scenes of nature.
Throughout the day you will encouraged to look more closely at nature and the textures and patterns that come together to form the bigger picture of the landscape – and of course you will have practical in-the-field guidance from Roy Vieth while you create your own special photographs.
Time permitting the return to Hobart will be via Cygnet and the D'Entrecasteaux Channel taking you on a journey through other scenic areas of Southern Tasmania – again, stopping where possible for photos.
Available daily by request (except Christmas Day) departing at 0730 (November to March) and 0830 (April to October) Cost per person is AUD545 (solo traveller), AUD290 (two participants) and AUD259 (three participants)
