Capri
iPhone Photography
Workshop

Participants arrive at Marina Grande and take the funicolare to Capri. Rob meets the group no later than 3pm for a gear check and first visual impressions.

Open-top taxis from the Piazzetta to the southern coastline. Walk along the shore. Shooting in bright coastal light — exposure, reflection, and finding the frame that makes a place recognisable.

Creative Prompt — The Siren's Call: In mythology this is where the sirens turned to rock when Odysseus rejected them. What does the mythology add to the image?

Dinner at Ristorante Pulalli on the Piazzetta — where Slim Aarons took his celebrated photograph of the square. Introductions and the workshop philosophy.

Into the residential maze of upper Capri — narrow whitewashed alleys towards the Natural Arch. iPhone shooting in confined spaces: shadows, compression, and the geometry of narrow places.

Creative Prompt — Chiaroscuro Alleys: The contrast between deep shadow and brilliant white light that defines these lanes is the photograph. How do you expose for both at once?

The 40-minute trek up Via Tiberio to Villa Jovis — Roman ruins where Tiberius ruled Imperial Rome for a decade. Then the wooded trail to Villa Lysis, where afternoon light strikes the Art Nouveau pillars directly.

Creative Prompt — Power, Paranoia & Exile: How do you photograph a place associated with absolute authority? Villa Jovis offered Tiberius visibility of approaching ships — and a cliff from which he dispatched those who displeased him.

Funicolare down to Marina Grande for a harbour colour and documentary shoot. How to photograph people, movement, and street life without being intrusive.

Creative Prompt — The Working Port: Boats, crews, morning preparations. What tells the story of how this place actually functions?

Walk to the Gardens of Augustus, then descend Via Krupp — the serpentine staircase carved into the cliff. iPhone video: movement, pacing, and building a sequence through a location.

Creative Prompt — Scale & Serpentine Lines: The dizzying geometry of Via Krupp. How do you convey height, scale, and the relationship between human effort and inhospitable stone?

Private boat from Marina Grande circling the island and passing through the Faraglioni Rocks at golden hour. Shooting from a moving vessel in extraordinary, unplannable light.

Creative Prompt — From Sanctuary to Vulnerability: Passing through the Faraglioni is a psychological shift from the island's shelter into the open sea.

Final dinner together — what we made, what surprised us, and what we'd do differently.

The Faraglioni at first light. Optional for those on afternoon ferries — the island at its most still.

Over espresso near the Piazzetta, we select and review the week's best work. How to curate a body of images and what the edit reveals about how your eye has developed. Workshop concludes noon.

Group editing and critique with Rob. Submit your five best images for discussion.