Courses

I offer a wide range of courses to meet your needs. I promise to deliver every course with a smile and to your highest level of satisfaction. 

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Get to Know your Camera 

Course Content
This course is designed for people who want to get to know their camera and how to get the most out of it. The course is over six sessions and is mainly classroom based. The total cost is £200, but this can be paid, either in total, or week by week. 

A tour of your camera using the manual

Aperture, Shutter Speed & ISO

White Balance, how to use it

Auto focus versus manual focus

Lenses & filters

Accessories 

 
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Street Photography

This is a course for people who enjoy recording the life of our cities. Street Photography is about the variety of sights; whether it be architecture, people, animals, or even litter; that we see in and around our cities, towns and villages. We photograph the usual and the unusual, the shop windows, the street markets, the parks and anything else that makes our urban spaces so vibrant.

The Course is spread over six weeks, with one classroom session, which will go into the do's and don'ts of taking candid photographs of strangers and street entertainers.

The total cost is £200, but this can be paid, either in total, or week by week. 

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 Composition  

This is a grass roots course covering the composition of a photograph. I will not go into great depth about any specific genre, but will touch on each where the rules cross over. The course is designed to take six weeks at one session per week. The total cost is £200, but this can be paid, either in total, or week by week. 

Rules of Composition

Leading Lines

Using Light

Focus & The Hyperfocal Point

Portraits

Wildlife (We will try to make this outdoors, but it will depend on the weather).

 
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Landscape Photography

This is a practical course taking place over six sessions.
The total cost is £200, but this can be paid, either in total, or week by week. 

Each week we will either go on a photo walk taking shots in different settings, or, if the weather is against us, we will work indoors.

 Camera & Tripod

   Frame Organization

 Light

 Balance

 Perspective

 Long Exposures

Landscape photography is a huge topic, simply because the landscape has so many variables. The aim of this course is to set you in the right direction for different situations. For example shooting a specific tree in a woodland would seem to be and is totally different from shooting a wide open seascape, but there are aspects that are common to both. For example choosing the time of the best light, or deciding whether to use a fast shutter speed or to do a long exposure. 

There is one aspect that is more important even than your camera and lenses, because getting it wrong can spoil the whole outing. What you wear! Your clothing and footwear MUST be suitable for the weather and the ground conditions. Kneeling down on wet sand with non-waterproof trousers is bad enough, but to have your hands so cold that you can’t even press your shutter takes all the pleasure out of your hobby for that day.  


 
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Photo Walks

Guided Photo Walks


Our guided photo walks will either start from Shieldbank Coffee Shop, or from a designated meeting point. Each walk will last for around two hours and will be geared to the interests of the participants.

The walks from the coffee shop will mainly be around Shieldbank Farm and Woods and will concentrate on landscape and wildlife photography. Other venues will take in seascapes, lochs, architecture and people.

The cost is variable from

£75-£150


Non guided walks


You are very welcome to use the paths around the farm and through the woods to walk round and take pictures. There is no charge for these walks, all we ask is that you respect the countryside and animals and do not leave any litter.


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One Day Beginner's Workshop

Workshop Content

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 way to access your camera's features, how shutter speed affects your photos and how to avoid camera shake by adjusting shutter speed. Learn how to add interest to your photos with some tips on composition and put it all into practice by taking some close-up, portrait & landscape shots.

Morning Session

Arrive at Shieldbank Coffee Shop at 10.00am

Coffee and set up your camera for portraiture

Practice taking different types of portrait

Lunch: (Lunch is within the price) 

Afternoon Session

After lunch, go out with camera & tripod, (We can provide the tripod).

Set up the camera for outdoor photography.

Practice and improve your composition

Back to the coffee shop and view the images on a big screen

Discussion and finish

Cost for the Day:  £200


This includes Coffees And Lunch

The day runs from 10.00am till 5.00pm

Tripods can be provided, if required

We have a model for the portrait session

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Design a Course to Suit you

I offer a bespoke courses to meet most types of still photography.
If your interest lies in other types of photography, such as Macro, Portrait or Street Photography, I will be happy to design a course on any of these subjects. All that you need to do is click on the button below to reach my bookings page, tell me what course you are interested in and I will get back to you with the available dates. 
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