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.

Saturday October 11th – 10.00am to 4.30pm.

Saturday November 15th – 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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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.

Peak District landscape photography courses by Peak Digital Training. Photo © Chris JamesSaturday August 9th – Heather Landscapes Photography Course near Sheffield.

This landscape photography course for more experienced photographers has been timed to coincide with the heather coming into bloom, turning the moors a beautiful purple colour. It will run from early afternoon until after sunset, and is being held in the area around Fox House, on the edge of Sheffield. Subjects available will include waterfalls, rugged gritstone edges and rock formations, old abandoned millstones as well as some of the finest heather moorland in the Peak District. The course is limited to a maximum of only 4 photographers, and places cost £99.00 each. Places available.

Photography courses Sheffield. Photo © Chris JamesSaturday August 16th – Beginners’ Photography Course near Sheffield: Getting Off Auto Mode.

A full day outdoor photography course which is being held in the area around Fox House on the edge of Sheffield, and is suitable for complete beginners. It has been timed to coincide with the heather coming into bloom, which will turn the moors a beautiful purple colour. Learn about the basic controls and settings on your camera that will help you take better and more creative photos, in a small group of people with similar levels of experience. The course is limited to a maximum of only 6 persons, and places cost £99.00 each. Fully booked.

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. Places 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.

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. 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. 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.

Peak District Waterfalls and Woodlands in Autumn

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

Saturday, October 26th from 8.30am to 4.30pm. £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 also accessible by public transport.

The course on November 18th features a whole day’s photography, starting just after sunrise at 8.30am and finishing after sunset at 4.00pm. As this is one of the best spots in the Peak District for temperature inversions, we might get lucky and have some mist in the morning.

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. 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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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”

Edit Your Photos with Adobe Lightroom Classic

We don’t currently have any dates scheduled for this one day course, but as an alternative, many of our clients prefer to have personalised one to one training which can be carried out at a time and place to suit them – even in their own home working with their own computer. See here for more details of our one to one Lightroom training.

If you really want to get the best from your photos, you need to learn how to edit them properly. The software of choice for many photographers is Adobe Lightroom Classic, which was designed specifically to help digital photographers organise, edit and output their photos for a variety of purposes.

This hands-on, practical course will teach you how to get the best out of your photos using the tools within Lightroom Classic’s Develop module. It is designed for people who already have some basic experience of working within Lightroom (or other photo editors such as Photoshop), but no previous editing experience is necessary. 

Please click here to request a booking form for this course.

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