Athens Photo Tours
Why book a private tour
Booking a private photo expert allows you to select from our carefully planned routes or to make desired changes where possible according to your interest. If there are 2 or more of you then the price is also quite attractive.
What you will learn
Day Shoots
Shooting in bright morning light with low ISO setting.
Experimentation with pedestrian/neighborhood photography.
How to blend into the crowd and shoot as inconspicuously as possible.
Tips on how to photograph strangers in a respectful manner.
Night Shoots
Shooting in low light without flash.
Use of urban objects (street lamps, garbage cans, etc.) to act as camera braces.
Experimentation with long exposure.
Learning to expose for high contrast lighting.
Your Photographer
George Atsametakis is a full time freelance photographer, based in Athens - Greece.
He has been interested in photography for the last thirty five years. His favorite subjects are people, events, sports, scenery and nature, although I can deal with a quite wide range of subjects.
He regularly contributing columns and photographs to several Greek magazines, including "PhotoNet", "PhotoNet Professional", "Camper & Travel", "MBike", "Runner"
He is also the chief technical editor for "PhotoNet" magazine and he tests the majority of new photographic equipment, including digital cameras, lenses, printers etc.
His pictures are being published in many other magazines and newspapers, domestic and international, through the picture agency "IML Image Group".
Adventures thru the Lens - Athens
Spend an exciting morning and / or sunset in Athens with a professional photographer learning how to make great photographs while visiting ancient monuments, parks and the lively Plaka district.
This tour offers participants an authentic city adventure and rare opportunity to experience Ancient Athens from an insider’s point of view.
Your professional photographic guide will point out details invisible to the untrained eye and reveal the best vantage-points on your chosen route.
Learn to tell a story through images, take great shots of iconic monuments and capture atmospheric images off the beaten track.
Be ready for the unexpected, on an Adventure thru the Lens.
Private Tours:
Available:Daily On Request
Duration: 3 1/2 hrs
Cost: 300€ for groups of 1-4 people
Photos Copyright: G.Atsametakis
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Ancient Footsteps
Scheduled + Private Tours
Walk the ancient streets of Athens. Go back in time as you wander the small streets and capture the shadows on the white washed walls
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Walk back in time
Tour Code: ATHENS-PH1
Meeting Point: Entrance to Acropolis Station (Makrigianni Street)
Ending Point: Monastiraki Station
On this tour you will follow the footsteps of everyday people and their cultures through the centuries. We will stroll by small white-washed houses built amidst the rocks beneath the gaze of the Acropolis.
The narrow meandering steep streets and steps, stone walls and gardens filled with flowers give the impression of being on a Greek island. You will see the tower of the winds, a weather vane, a sundial, and a hydraulic clock housed in an octagonal tower built by the astronomer Andronicus, the Roman Agora, the remains of Hadrian’s Library built in 132 AD seen at a distance, and Fethiye Djami – Mosque of the conqueror, considered one of the oldest and finest Ottoman monuments in Athens.
You will learn how to work with light and shadows, color and forms in a creative way, how to use photographic techniques to advantage and how to be ready to take great photos any time you go out with your camera.
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Hills and Dems
When the golden sun sets over the hills of Athens, magic happens. Be there to witness it.
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Sunset Tour
Tour Code: ATHENS-Pvt1
April + May 5:00pm
June + July 6:30pm
August 6:00pm
Sept + October 3:00pm
Meeting Point: Thisio Station - Upper Exit
Ending Point: Monastiraki Station
Starting at the pedestrian area of Apostolou Pavlou street, which unites the major archaeological sites of Athens we follow in the steps of Hadrian to see where he attended the inauguration of the Temple of Olympian Zeus. We wind our way past Roman ruins, mosques, temples and the homes of the Greek Gods of Olympus. En route you will see the 3000 year old Theatres which premiered the plays of Sophocles and Euripides and that are still in use today.
You will have superb vantage points from the sacred Hill of Philopappou (Hills of the Muses) to photograph the Acropolis and then on to Plaka and past the magically lit restaurants scattered all over the hillside.
You will learn how to work with light and shadows, color and forms in a creative way, how to use photographic techniques to advantage and how to be ready to take great photos any time you go out with your camera.
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Let us capture that special moment in Athens or any of the Greek Islands.
