Description
Photography Course Details
Duration: 9am – 1pm or 2pm – 6pm
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.
Learn and improve your photography through 1-2-1 tuition with a professional photographer who earns his living from photography and spends each and every day overcoming new photography challenges for his clients.
Whether you have just picked up your first camera and don’t know where to start with it or you have been learning photography for years and just need a little assistance with certain areas, Paul David Smith offers a half-day 1-2-1 photography course in Newquay, Cornwall, UK tailored specifically to your own individual needs.
By focusing on the areas of photography that you would like to improve you save yourself the frustration of having to go through repeated trial and error to figure things out yourself. 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 we could cover 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?
This is a beginners course and as such, no skills are required to attend this course. The only equipment you will need to bring with you is your camera and lenses.
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.
Matt White –
I spent half a day with Paul getting to grips with aperture, shutter speed and ISO. He made it simple to understand and in the space of just 4 hours I was shooting in manual mode feeling quite confident with the camera and what I was doing. Very impressive indeed.
Mary Harris –
Paul is an excellent teacher, he explains things in a clear and easy to understand manner and given I’d never shot out of auto modes in my life, I was surprised to find myself shooting in manual mode in just half a day. I understand aperture, shutter speed and ISO now where as before I’d never really paid much attention to them and just let the camera do it’s own thing. Well worth the money and a thoroughly enjoyable experience all around.
Catherine Knowles –
Having spent far too many hours of my life watching online videos trying to work my camera out and get it to do what I wanted it to, I decided to attend a 1-2-1 half-day training course with Paul. I wish I had done it sooner, he was so helpful and taught me more than I ever expected he would in just a few hours. I went from not knowing what Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO really were, to shooting in manual mode during this course and as Paul says, I’m smarter than my camera so it’s nice to be able to tell it what I want it to do now.