Description
Photography Course Details
Duration: Full Day, 10am – 5pm
Location: London, 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.
Whether you are a beginner who has just picked up their very first camera, an intermediate photographer who is looking to improve their existing knowledge or a professional who wants to see how somebody else goes about their craft, spending a day with professional photographer Paul David Smith will greatly help to improve your photography skills and your photos.
On this one day 1-2-1 photography course, Paul will tailor the content to your specific requirements. Since 2008 he has worked as a professional photographer across a variety of genres and has been teaching photography to students all around the world for many years.
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!
This is your day, so whether you want to learn how to shoot in manual mode, improve your product or portrait photography skills, master landscape and cityscapes or spend your time improving your street photography, Paul will help to develop your photography knowledge and practical skills resulting in you being able to take photographs you will be proud of.
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.
Hannah & Gino –
As my partner and I sat on the tube on the way home from Paul’s photography course in London, I told her how I thought I’d learnt more in a day than I had in the previous 2 years of trying to work it all out on my own. I feel that is the greatest compliment I can give Paul, his teaching methods are excellent, he makes everything so simple to understand and I learnt so much in a single day. I will certainly be returning for another course once I’ve had chance to practice everything we covered on this one!
Henry Jones –
I’d been wanting to do a training session with Paul for the longest of times as he is constantly recommended when it comes to learning photography, however we just lived too far apart for me to be able to make it viable. I then one day noticed he had started offering photography courses in London and didn’t hesitate to book on with him. Needless to say I was not disappointed, I drove home from a fun filled day of learning thinking to myself how I’d absorbed more in that day with Paul than I had in years prior trying to learn things on my own. Paul is an excellent teacher and I thoroughly enjoyed every second of my training day with him.