8 Day Photography Workshop and Surf Holiday in Fuerteventura

Facilities

Surf course for beginners

Ready to learn how to catch your first wave? Here, everybody is a beginner, nothing to be ashamed of. You will go surfing every day and you will make daily progress in your surfing, so after this six-day course, you will be a real surfer.

Day 1

• Warm-up and stretching
• Introduction of surf equipment
• Board handling at shore and water
• Explaining safety rules
• Balance on a surfboard
• Gliding in whitewater (lying)
• Try to take your first wave (standing)

Day 2

• Paddling technique
• Take-off technique in whitewater
• Theory and practical at the shore
• Take-off technique correction

Day 3 and 4

• Theory and practical at the shore
• Individual take-off correction
• Turning the board (front side)
• Acceleration and stalling techniques
• How to get to the line-up
• Paddling into the line-up using the diving technique

Day 5 and 6

• Theory and practical at the shore
• Take off in green waves
• Turning the board (backside)
• Paddling for green waves
• Straight takeoff
• Take off frontside and backside

Surf course for intermediate surfers

If you already did a surf course before but you want to improve your skills and style, or simply want to surf in a good and safe atmosphere, then this is the level for you. The instructors will evaluate your skills and you will improve your surf, learning new tricks. When you book for an intermediate course, you will have the chance to try different types of boards depending on the waves and your level.

In Homegrown's range of surfboards, they have different types and different sizes of surfboards like fishes, evolutions, minimalibus, and malibus. In a six-day intermediate surf course, you will learn to improve:

• Paddling technique
• Take off in a green wave
• Surfing frontside and backside
• Backside rail grab
• Duck dive, Eskimo roll
• Bottom turn
• Cutback
• Surf shortboards, malibus, and longboards

What is "Surf and Photo"?

Surf and Photo is a new and fresh idea to combine the surf lessons with the best sightseeing of Fuerteventura with the teaching of Mauro and Emanuele, Homegrown's professional photographers!

How does it work?

It’s very simple, every morning, you'll go normally surfing with Homegrown and in the afternoon, Mauro and Emanuele will bring you to some of the most scenic locations of the island, helping you to get the most from your photography!

Where do you go and what do you shoot?

Sunsets on the beach, the volcanoes, and all the beautiful sightseeings that make Fuerteventura a unique place in the world.

Main subjects

You will learn how to use a D-SLR camera (reflex), the principles of light, aperture/shutter speed relation, depth of field, lenses and cameras, how to create a good composition in photography, shooting techniques (landscapes, travel, action, and portraits), image processing, fun, and tan!

Everyday in the afternoon, you will shoot some of the most scenic locations of the island and there you will have the chance to shoot with the help and tips of two professional photographers. Depending on the light and weather conditions, you will be taking pictures of breathtaking sunsets, volcanic lunar landscapes, red mountains meeting blue lagoon, and all the beautiful sightseeings that make Fuerteventura a unique place in the world. (Fuerteventura has been declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 2009).

This course is offered from beginner to experienced photographers and provides elements on the following subjects:

• The principles associated with light, lenses, and cameras
• How to create a good composition in photography
• Shooting techniques (landscapes, travel, action, and portraits)
• Image processing

Every participant must bring his own equipment usually used to shoot. Homegrown also suggests bringing a tripod for low light conditions and long exposure photos. (Check with your flight company if you can bring your tripod on board as hand luggage). If you have one, it could be helpful to bring your laptop to download the photos and help you in the selection of the best shots.

To better follow the post-processing demonstration and if you don’t have them already, you can download Adobe’s software trial version (Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom) from Adobe. Homegrown recommends bringing comfortable socks and walking shoes or light hiking shoes. Try and test Homegrown's equipment:

Canon

• Eos 5d mk2
• Eos 7d
• 17-40mm f4 L
• 24-105mm f4 L
• 70-200mm f4 L
• 20mm f2.8
• 85mm f1.8
• 500mm f4 L
• Tokina 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5 DX Fisheye

Nikon

• Nikon d3s
• Nikon d750
• 16-35mm f4G AF-S VR
• 24-70mm f2.8G ED AF-S
• 70-200mm f2.8G AF-S ED VR II
• 35mm f2D
• 50mm f1.8D
• 85mm f1.8

The Homegrown home base is situated in the north of the island right at the center of Corralejo, Fuerteventura (Canary Islands). This is the best part of the island to surf. Fuerteventura is blessed with good weather and consistent waves all year round, so you can book your holiday whenever you want. Fuerteventura has the longest beaches of the Canary Islands, but with the lowest population density with only a small straight separates Fuerteventura from the African continent.

Homegrown's surf camp, Casa Hilda, is located in the center of the picturesque town of Corralejo, 200 meters from the famous Homegrown Surf Shop. Beach, party, surf, and shop, everything is within a stones ' throw of the surf camp!

Distances

• Homegrown Surf Shop, 200 meters

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Meals are not included in this package.

Dinner party

Every Monday at 8 p.m., Homegrown organizes a dinner, with all the surfers, instructors, and photographers, with live music at the Citrus Surf Lounge in Corralejo. The price for dinner, drinks, and live music is 10 EUR per person. After dinner, there is as usual, a party.

Spanish lessons

Every day from Monday till Friday, you can have Spanish lessons with Montse and Jorge. The price for three sessions is 100 EUR and the price for five sessions is 150 EUR. The "aula" where the Spanish lessons are given is situated 300 meters from the surf house. Spanish lessons will be arranged in the most convenient way to make it fully compatible with your surfing course.

Yoga

Every Monday and Wednesday at 7 p.m., there are yoga lessons. The yoga lessons take place 50 meters from the surf shop and 200 meters from Casa Hilda. The price is 10 EUR for each session.

Sport massage

Relax and unwind with a surf massage. Homegrown's kinesis, Gloria, does everyday massages from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Homegrown surfers get a special price of 25 EUR for 45 minutes; nothing better than a good sports massage after several days of surfing!

• 6 days of surf lessons (minimum of 27 hours in total)
• 3 days of photography workshop
• Guidance from certified surf instructors
• Practice and theory lessons
• Surfboard, leash, wax, and wetsuit
• Daily transportation to different shooting locations and surf spots
• Review of photographs
• 7 nights accommodation
• Free use of first-class surf equipment
• Roundtrip airport transfers
• Insurance

• Airfare
• Daily meals

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 14% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.