Large Scale Heritage Capture Workshop

Mastering the Art & Science of Heritage Documentation En Plein Air.

In the museum studio, you are a god. You control the sun (the strobes). You control the rotation (the turntable). You control the environment (the black velvet void). You can banish shadows and freeze time.

But what happens when your artefact is a mountain? What happens when your subject is a 12th-century nave, a brutalist concrete façade, or a Neolithic standing stone?

You enter the realm of En Plein Air (In the Open Air).

Here, the studio's rules do not apply. Here, you are not a god; you are a guest.

• The Light Moves: The sun is a key light that moves 15 degrees every hour.
• The Subject Breathes: Stone expands in heat, clouds change colour temperature, and the public moves through the frame.
• The Scale Crushes: You aren't zooming in; you are stitching thousands of images just to capture a single wall.

Heritage documentation En Plein Air is the most challenging discipline in our field because it demands you serve two masters at once:

1. The Archive (Science): We must capture "Clean Data"—flat, shadow-free Albedo maps that feed the digital twin and the conservation report.
2. The Architect (Art): We must capture "Context"—the heavy, directional shadows and atmospheric volume that reveal the artist and the builder's intent.

If you only capture the data, you have the stones, but you have lost the building. If you only capture the art, you have a pretty picture, but no metric utility.

We are a specialised tribe of heritage professionals who thrive in this chaos. We do not fight the sun; we calculate it. We do not fear the shadows; we read them.

From the deserts of AlUla to the gothic gloom of York Minster, we teach the specific, field-tested workflows needed to document the unmoveable.

Welcome to the studio without a roof.