Description
Photography Course Details
Duration: 10am – 4pm
Location: Newquay, Cornwall, 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.
Gift Vouchers For This Course Are Available Here
Spend a day with a professional photographer who earns his living from photography and spends each and every day overcoming new photography challenges for his clients.
This training day based in Newquay, Cornwall, UK will be entirely tailored to your own photography abilities and we’ll look to improve your skills in the areas that you need to develop most. Paul will discuss your current level of photography with you, figure out what you do and don’t know and build a training day designed to take your photography to the next level.
If you have certain areas of photography you would like to focus on, like portraits, wildlife, macro, weddings, etc. then just let us know and we’ll be sure to make that the theme for the day. You are also welcome to bring along a friend or family member with you as up to 2 people can attend this course at no additional cost.
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.
I Don’t Own A Camera Yet, Can I Borrow One?
Yes no problem, we have a Canon 5D MKIII and various lenses available to loan for the day. There is no additional fee for this, we will just ask you to sign something that says if you break it, you agree to pay to get it fixed.
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.
James Reid –
I spent a day with Paul learning photography and am really pleased I did, I learn’t so much!
Marcus Hibbs –
I’ve been playing around with cameras for the last couple of years and thought I was OK at taking photos. The big problem I had was that a lot of my best shots were luck more than judgement, the camera was in auto and I just pressed the shutter button. I wanted to start taking control of my camera more so I got in touch with Paul to ask if he could help. Within hours of arriving we’d covered Aperture, Shutter Speeds and ISO and I was shooting in manual mode, it was incredible! Paul is a natural teacher as everything he taught me has stuck. It’s obvious he does this every day as he answered all my questions thoroughly and with lots of practical examples along the way. A fantastic 1-2-1 training session, I just wish I’d done it sooner.