Beginners’ Digital Photography Courses in Derbyshire – Getting off Auto Mode

Learn how to get off the auto mode and take control of your camera!

Saturday September 27th – 10.00am to 4.30pm. Only 2 places still available.

Saturday October 11th – 10.00am to 4.30pm. Fully booked.

Saturday November 15th – 10.00am to 4.30pm. Only 2 places still available.

Saturday December 13th – 10.00am to 4.30pm. Places available.

To allow for plenty of individual attention, there will be a maximum of only 6 people on each of these courses. Please contact us if you would like to be emailed a booking form to reserve a place.

Beginners' photography courses in Matlock Derbyshire. Photo © Chris JamesThese one day courses are being held in the village of Tansley, near Matlock in Derbyshire. They are run in a relaxed and informal atmosphere, and designed to bring together people with similar levels of ability. Group numbers are deliberately kept low so that the workshops are flexible and easily adapted to suit the specific needs and level of experience of the participants.

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Peak District Waterfalls and Woodlands in Autumn

Saturday, October 18th from 10.30am to 6.30pm. £99.00 per person. 

This course is limited to just four photographers, and places cost £99.00 each.

This intermediate level landscape photography course has been timed to take advantage of the wonderful colours of autumn, and will be held on the moors around Fox House (close to the border between Derbyshire and Sheffield). The course is accessible by public transport.

This practical course features a whole day’s outdoor photography, starting  at 10.30am and finishing just after sunset at 6.30pm. 

This part of the Peak District offers a wonderful range of subjects – including waterfalls, colourful oak and birch woodlands, old millstone quarries, and natural gritstone outcrops. As this is one of the best spots in the Peak District for temperature inversions, we might also get lucky and have some mist in the morning. For those interested in close-up and macro subjects, there should be plenty of interesting fungi at this time of year as well.

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Aviation Photography Course – Photographing Aircraft in Flight

An afternoon and evening of action photography at East Midlands Airport.

Thursday August 21st 2.00pm – 9.00pm. 

This course has now taken place, but you can see details of all the other landscape and beginners’ photography courses we are currently running here.

There will be a maximum of only 4 photographers on this course, and places cost £120.00 each.

Please contact us to request a booking form, or if you need any further information about the course. 

Photographing aircraft in flight is not only great fun, but it can result in some really spectacular images. Any type of action photography does however require some specific skills and understanding of camera settings for the best results. On this afternoon and evening aviation photography course at East Midlands Airport, we will be starting with some relatively easy subjects (large jet airliners in good light), before trying our skills on some smaller aircraft and pictures in lower light conditions during the evening. On this  course, you will learn how to:

  • choose the correct shutter speeds to either freeze motion, or allow some motion blur
  • using panning techniques to increase the impression of movement and speed, and help blur out distracting backgrounds
  • choose the correct autofocus settings for really sharp results with moving subjects
  • take action photos in low light conditions (sunset will be about 45 minutes before the end of the course)
  • plan your shooting locations and camera angles to help you get the best results in different lighting conditions and at different times of the day
  • get optimum results with telephoto lenses

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Next One Day Photography Courses in the Sheffield and Peak District Areas

Here are the dates of the next digital photography courses we have planned in the Derbyshire Peak District and around Sheffield and South Yorkshire in the next few months. They are all one day courses, led by an experienced professional photographer with extensive local knowledge. You can read what some of our hundreds of clients have said about our courses here on Google.

You can request a booking form here for any of our training courses listed below. Just click on the links for more information about individual courses. 

We also continue to offer one to one training either face to face or via video link. See here  for further details.

Beginners' photography courses in Matlock Derbyshire. Photo © Chris JamesSaturday September 27th – Beginners’ Photography Course in Derbyshire: Getting Off Auto Mode.

Learn how to take control of your camera and get off the auto mode on this one day beginners photography course. It is suitable for complete beginners, assumes no previous knowledge of photography and is suitable for all types of digital stills cameras. It is being held near Matlock in Derbyshire and is a mixture of classroom-based teaching and practice outdoors (so it is not weather-dependent). The course is limited to a maximum of only 6 photographers, and places cost £99.00 each. Only 2 places still available.

Sunset and night photography course in the Derbyshire Peak District. Photo © Chris JamesSaturday October 4th – Sunset and Night Photography in the Peak District.

This is an advanced level course which will require participants to be able to use their cameras in fully manual (M) mode. The course will run from 4.00pm in the afternoon until midnight, so will include photography during “golden hour“, sunset and dusk as well as at night. It is set in a fantastic rural location with photogenic old industrial buildings, twisted trees and other subjects for foreground interest. The course is limited to a maximum of only 6 photographers, and places cost £99.00 each. Only 1 place still available.

Beginners' photography courses in Matlock Derbyshire. Photo © Chris JamesSaturday October 11th – Beginners’ Photography Course in Derbyshire: Getting Off Auto Mode.

Learn how to take control of your camera and get off the auto mode on this one day beginners photography course. It is suitable for complete beginners, assumes no previous knowledge of photography and is suitable for all types of digital stills cameras. It is being held near Matlock in Derbyshire and is a mixture of classroom-based teaching and practice outdoors (so it is not weather-dependent). The course is limited to a maximum of only 6 photographers, and places cost £99.00 each. Fully booked.

Derbyshire Peak District landscape photography course. Photo © Chris JamesSaturday October 18th – Waterfalls and Woodlands in Autumn.

This full day landscape photography course has been timed to catch the autumn colours at their best. We will be photographing waterfalls, woodlands and moorland from morning until after sunset. It is is being held in the area around Fox House, on the border between Sheffield and Derbyshire, and is accessible by public transport. It is an intermediate level course and will be limited to a maximum of only 4 photographers. Places cost £99.00 each. Places available.

Beginners' photography courses in Matlock Derbyshire. Photo © Chris JamesSaturday November 15th – Beginners’ Photography Course in Derbyshire: Getting Off Auto Mode.

Learn how to take control of your camera and get off the auto mode on this one day beginners photography course. It is suitable for complete beginners, assumes no previous knowledge of photography and is suitable for all types of digital stills cameras. It is being held near Matlock in Derbyshire and is a mixture of classroom-based teaching and practice outdoors (so it is not weather-dependent). The course is limited to a maximum of only 6 photographers, and places cost £99.00 each. Only 2 places still available.

Beginners' photography courses in Matlock Derbyshire. Photo © Chris JamesSaturday December 13th – Beginners’ Photography Course in Derbyshire: Getting Off Auto Mode.

Learn how to take control of your camera and get off the auto mode on this one day beginners photography course. It is suitable for complete beginners, assumes no previous knowledge of photography and is suitable for all types of digital stills cameras. It is being held near Matlock in Derbyshire and is a mixture of classroom-based teaching and practice outdoors (so it is not weather-dependent). The course is limited to a maximum of only 6 photographers, and places cost £99.00 each. Places available.

More course dates for later in the year will added shortly, and if you would like to be kept informed of all the training courses we are running when they are announced, please sign up to our newsletter.

We are also able to offer one to one training either in person, or via video link.

Photographing the Industrial Heritage of South Yorkshire

This course has now taken place, but you can see details of all our other courses over the coming months here.

Sunday May 29th, 10.30am to 6.30pm. Places cost £99.00 each.

This course will be limited to just six photographers – so everyone will receive plenty of individual attention and have their questions answered. Please contact us to request a booking form.

The relics of our industrial past can be extremely photogenic, and this unique workshop in and around Elsecar (between Sheffield and Barnsley in South Yorkshire) will give you the chance to photograph some excellent examples. 

Most of the workshop will be spent at the former Hemingfield Colliery, where we will have exclusive access. This well preserved colliery was developed in the 1840s, and worked the Barnsley coal seam until 1920. From then until 1989, it worked as a pumping station to keep other local mines dry. The site was finally bought by the Friends of Hemingfield Colliery in 2014 – and apart from on open days – is not open to the public, so we are fortunate to be given exclusive access for this course. Part of the course fee will be going to help them conserve and protect the site. More details about the mine and its history can be seen here on their website. Continue reading “Photographing the Industrial Heritage of South Yorkshire”