"After four days I'd call it a really good experience. You have a gift for teaching, and it felt like a privilege to spend these days with you, watching how you work with people, how you shoot, and hearing everything you've picked up along the way. In the end it wasn't only about photography, there was something personal in it too.
 

Photographing people, actually going up to them and talking, had always been a wall for me. I feel more confident now. Plenty still to practise, but I know I can do it.
 

The organisation deserves a mention. Everything from the platform to the programme was spot on. And the fact that you're an easy, flexible person made the whole thing relaxed, in the best way.
 

The other thing I'd single out is the review sessions, going back over the photos we'd taken. Those made a real difference. They helped me do better the next day and know exactly what I needed to fix. All in all, a five-star experience, and you're a very good teacher. And photographer, obviously."

"After four days with Daniel in Lisbon, I look at photography differently. The workshop was what I'd hoped for: some theory, a lot of shooting out in the streets, and help with editing at the end of each day.
 

During the sessions Daniel kept pushing us to get closer, to approach people and put our subjects at the centre of the frame instead of hanging back. He never hovered. But he was never far either, and that was enough to make us braver, walking into parts of the city we probably wouldn't have gone into alone and actually testing things rather than playing safe.
 

I'll never think about light and shadow the same way. Not just exposure, but part of the composition itself. We also talked a lot about how to photograph people in the street honestly, without turning them into tourist snapshots, and that changed how I worked. The photos started to feel like a conversation with the place, not something grabbed on the way past.
 

And it was fun. I finished every day tired and wanting to go out again the next morning, having learned as much from the other participants as from Daniel. Money well spent."