Eleven Mile State Park Photo Tours

Sightseeing  :  United States  :  Colorado  :  Colorado Springs  :  Photography Tours

Join a professional photographer and tour this hidden gem of Colorado. You can choose to come at sunset to see the parks magnificent scenery or come on a Astrophotography tour and see the beautiful stars and milky way as they move across the night. Boulders, tall pines, and the lake make for great composition in either environment. Several camera techniques will be discussed as well the rules of composition.

• After you pass the Eleven Mile General Store take your first left and meet your guide at the Coyote Ridge parking lot at the end of the road. 6:00PM for sunset or 11:00 PM for astro will be the meeting time and the short hike will start after getting all the gear ready. A brief intro on lenses, camera settings and techniques for shooting this area and for those coming at night astro techniques will be discussed as we start the tour. We will take the Midland Trail & Black Bear trail along the lakeside. This is a relatively easy hike with short elevation gains. We will hike less than a mile to our main location to photograph from. All along these trails giant boulders and rock formations jut out into the lake creating a very dramatic scene. Multiple vantage points surround the area and participants may feel free to explore. Camera instruction including, composition, HDR, time-lapse tutorials, stars, and image stacking will be discussed. This hike is less than 3 miles RT.