Photography courses

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Take a course or workshop in photography and you will never look back. You will probably be too busy looking through a lens, taking or editing your beautiful pictures and photographing all of your friends, hobbies, pets and family! A photography course could be just what you need to improve your business; helping you create attractive images for marketing. Learning how to take good photos is a skill you will carry through life, wherever you go. Every future holiday, family event, beautiful landscape, all enhanced by your ability with the camera.

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Photography course to take better photographs

Photography course to take better photographs

A twice-monthly tuition course in London and further afield by arrangement. On the course, we will simply explain what all the dials, buttons and controls on your equipment mean so that technical problems don't get in the way of your creativity. Learn shutter speed and f stop control. How to get off auto onto manual. Try your hand at children, dogs and other animals, portraiture, landscapes, street photography, interiors and food. How to do event photography, product shots, fashion, hair and beauty and jewellery in colour and black and white....

Introduction to mount cutting: perfect for painters & photographers

Introduction to mount cutting: perfect for painters & photographers

West Sussex - Next course on 30th April 2020

This one day workshop is suitable for complete beginners or for those wanting to refresh their mount cutting skills. Learn to cut accurate, bespoke, single mounts using a handheld mount cutter. Cutting your own mounts allows you to use standard size frames and recycle existing ones. Perfect for painters, crafters, photographers, calligraphers, textile artists, in fact anyone wanting to make their pictures look their best. * Calculate mount sizes so you can fit your pictures into readymade or recycled frames * Experiment with mounts and frames to see how they...

Photography Days

Photography Days

Photography days with Richard and Sue - A chance to try something new! Weather permitting we like to include an outdoor session. We can also show how you can set up a simple studio using household items! We’ll talk about composition and lighting. Things you learn in this session may be helpful if you need to photograph products for eBay or your own website. This will be followed by help in editing these shots. Throughout your day with us we will be aiming to make this course fun and relevant...

Explore your camera part 1 - Get off Auto

Explore your camera part 1 - Get off Auto

Devon - Next course on 8th February 2020

If you’re a beginner and using your camera on Auto, or trying various settings with mixed results, this workshop will give you a good introduction to and a foundation in photography in just one day. All digital camera types from compact to DSLR are suitable apart from smartphones. Learn how to create blurred backgrounds in your portrait and close-up shots to make your subject really stand out, and take detailed landscape photos, by shooting in Aperture Priority. Find the fastest and simplest way to access your camera’s features, how shutter...

Get started with DSLR creative photography workshop in Stalbridge Dorset & Somerset (beginners level)

Get started with DSLR creative photography workshop in Stalbridge Dorset & Somerset (beginners level)

Dorset - Next course on 9th February 2020

Taught by a professional photographer with over 15 years of working experience, this is a practical workshop day packed with information about starting and improving your DSLR photography. Time: Arrive 9.30-9.45am, workshop will finish for 4pm We will be looking at the technical aspects of the DSLR camera, such as settings and functions but will also be looking at how we can be creative with our photographic skills. We will be be discussing the fundamentals of composition, depth of field, aperture, shutter speed and ISO features but, perhaps more importantly,...

One to one photographic tuition in London

One to one photographic tuition in London

Photographer Richard Piper invites you to join him on a 'How To' bespoke photography course, held in a fantastic open-air central London location. Suitable for all levels, from novice to experienced, these individual and small-group one-to-one workshop classes are specifically tailored to your own personal needs and aspirations. Covering both the technical and creative aspects of photography, the workshops offers first-hand friendly coaching, with clear practical demonstrations of the key ingredients for great successful photography. With plenty of time for practice and questions, the classes are the perfect opportunity for...

Platinum Palladium Print Making workshop

Platinum Palladium Print Making workshop

For many this is the ultimate photographic print. With it’s delicate, broad range of tones and archival permanence it gives added value and is number one for the serious collector. You will learn about paper types, the chemicals involved, coating the paper and exposing and developing the print. On the 2nd day you learn how to create digital negatives. You will leave with 3 or 4 Platinum/Palladium prints and their negatives made during the workshop. You will be taught one to one by Richard Freestone, a professional Platinum printer with...

Develop Camera Confidence: a six module programme to get you off Auto running in Herts and Essex

Develop Camera Confidence: a six module programme to get you off Auto running in Herts and Essex

Hertfordshire - Next course on 22nd February 2020

If you have a great camera, but you're not confident that you feel you know how to use it to the best of its ability, then this programme can help you learn great photography techniques through fun and practical sessions. I set up this programme back in 2015 because I wanted to offer a more genuine learning experience for my students - one that enabled people to develop their skills rather than just filling their heads with lots of technical information. I still wholeheartedly embrace being as 'low tech' as...

Personalised creative photography tuition

Personalised creative photography tuition

How's your photography? Creative enjoyment or frustration? Personalised photography tuition starts where you are and gives you the confidence to move forward in your photography to better pictures and greater enjoyment. For many aspiring photographers, the controls on a camera can be daunting. They have a great new camera and don't know how to get the best out of it - until now. Your camera is a very simple piece of equipment - honest! It's all the bells and whistles that get in the way, that and not understanding the...

Sun printing workshop in Devon

Sun printing workshop in Devon

Devon - Next course on 28th March 2020

Sun printing is a primitive form of photography. Using cyanotype chemicals and sunshine you can capture plants and objects onto paper, textiles and silk. Bridget mainly works with silk and other natural materials creating beautiful sun printed scarves, cushions and bags building up from working on paper, to experimenting with setacolour soleil colour printing depending on which direction you wish to go in.

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