Description
Photography Course Details
Duration: 10am – 4pm
Location: Bristol, UK
Date: This is a 1-2-1 course, book a date that suits you.
No. Participants: Up to two people can attend this course at no additional cost.
This 1-2-1 photography course is perfect for whether you’re just starting out or already have some experience with a camera as it designed entirely around what you would like to learn. The course focuses on enhancing your photography knowledge, sparking your creativity, and teaching you practical skills that you can apply in your everyday photography.
The course is tailored to your individual specific needs and you’ll be asked to email a list of skills you want to learn. The course covers everything from manual camera settings like aperture, shutter speed, and ISO, to advanced composition, off-camera lighting, and editing. This one-day course aims to significantly shorten your learning curve by leveraging Paul’s daily experience in tackling photographic challenges for his clients.
Based in Bristol we can adapt the course to various genres like landscapes, portraits, products, street photography or nature, offering not just theoretical learning but practical experiences in real world locations. You’ll engage in hands-on shooting sessions, complemented by personalized image critiques to refine your technique. The course goes beyond capturing images; it delves into elevating your work to professional levels with advanced Photoshop and Lightroom post-production skills. This comprehensive approach ensures a well-rounded learning experience, catering to both the artistic and technical aspects of photography.
A few examples of what you could learn on the course:
- Take control & get out of auto mode.
- Benefits of using P, S, TV, A, AV or M modes.
- How to shoot pin sharp images every time.
- Blur backgrounds using aperture.
- Master difficult lighting conditions.
- Understand ISO and the exposure triangle.
- Camera equipment advice.
- Choose the correct camera image settings.
- Use different White Balance settings.
- Stop motion using shutter speeds.
- How to use off camera flash.
- How to avoid out of focus images.
- Understand lenses and focal lengths.
- Master composition for strong images.
- Post production image techniques.
- You tell me what you’re struggling with!
FAQ’s
Do I Need Certain Skills Or Equipment To Attend?
Please bring your camera with a fully charged battery, lenses and any accessories that you use frequently with you. If you could also bring with you a selection of images that you have taken then that would be really helpful to allow us to get an understanding of your current level.
Can You Recommend Camera Equipment For Me Prior To Me Attending?
I get a lot of requests for help with camera equipment recommendations, almost daily in fact and offer a Personalised Photography Equipment Recommendation service which you can find by clicking here.
Recommending a camera and the best lenses to buy really has lots of different factors involved in it which need to be investigated first such as what the equipment will be most used for, budgets, your expectations on image quality, your current level and aspirations, etc. Hence the above service so we can really drill down into finding you the best equipment.
Alternatively, some people attend my courses and borrow a camera from me for the day to do so, we can then incorporate this recommendation as part of the course at no extra cost. The benefit of doing it this way is that I have a lot of cameras and lenses you can try and see the difference between prior to purchasing anything. The downside is your not learning on your own equipment of course, so there are pluses and minuses to doing it both ways, it depends on what you think works best for you.
Are You DBS Checked?
Paul is DBS checked and is happy to share a copy of his DBS certificate with any client, no matter whether they are a business, charity, organisation or individual.
You can read more about Paul’s DBS check here.
What Is The Refund Policy?
Our Refund & Cancellation Policy Can Be Found Here.
Matthew Ludwig –
My daughter and I met Paul in Bristol for a one day photography course and we both came away feeling it will help progress out photography immensely. Paul has a very broad knowledge of photography and an ability to teach complex subjects in a very easy to understand manner. I was really impressed with how simple he made everything and just how much all of the ideas he shared with us helped to improve our photos. Paul was a pleasure to spend a day with, he’s a really nice guy and knew lots of places to get good shots around the city. I’d recommend this course for sure.