Scenic Barossa Valley

The Barossa offers quite a variety of photographic opportunities. Come for the whole day or take part when you can.

At 2:30pm we start at a picturesque winery in Tanunda, with beautiful gardens, intriguing displays of vats and wines, and perhaps you may like to arrive beforehand and do some wine tasting. At 4pm we have private access to the Angaston Blacksmith Shop, where you can photograph blacksmith at work. The bellows will fuel the fire as the smithy works at the forge to craft red hot metal in to useful and artistic objects. The forging is quite spectacular for a photographer.

The blacksmith shop would appreciate a donation of $5 for this private, after-hours session. The people doing this for us are volunteers who appreciate the donations to help with the costs of running the building.

If you want to stay on, we can have dinner in Tanunda, then go to the beautiful Steingarten Lookout for sunset at 7:27pm followed at 8:30pm for astrophotography at the same lookout.

• Landscapes
• Indoors
• Astrophotography (optional) 

• Fast lens (e.g. f/1.8) for indoors at the winery and the blacksmith. The blacksmith will be dark, and you will be pretty close, so a wide-angle lens could be a good choice (e.g. Sony 24mm f/1.4).
• General wide-angle landscape lens. Some people also use telephoto for landscapes.
• If you're staying for astrophotography: Warm clothes & beanie/scarf; Widest angle lens you have, e.g. the Sony 14mm f/1.8 Tripod for long exposures; Head torch (or phone torch), and perhaps some form of lighting to do light painting of the foreground.