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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.

These 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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Sunset and Beyond – Low Light and Night Photography in the Peak District

“It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly coloured than the day” Vincent Van Gogh

Saturday October 4th – 4.00pm until midnight. Only 1 place still available.

This advanced level course is limited to just 6 photographers, and places cost £99.00 each. Please contact us to request a booking form or if you require further information.

Most photographers have tried to photograph a sunset at some point (many cameras even have a special “sunset” mode), but are often disappointed with the results. On this course you’ll find out why this can happen, and learn some of the techniques that will make your sunset photos really come alive. Many of these same techniques also apply to twilight and night sky photography, and during this course, you will learn how and when to use them.

Modern digital cameras work extremely well in low light conditions, and have made night photography much easier and predictable than it used to be just a few years ago. So if you’ve ever wanted to try low light, night photography or “light painting“, this course will show you how to get started, and what fun it can be!

It is being held at a very safe, rural location in the Derbyshire Peak District – which has relatively little light pollution and is ideally suited for sunset and night photography. With wide horizons, twisted trees and amazing old industrial buildings and chimneys silhouetted against the sky, this is one the prime locations in the whole of the Peak District for this type of photography. Continue reading “Sunset and Beyond – Low Light and Night Photography in the Peak District”

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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Beginners’ Photography Courses near Sheffield – Getting Off Auto Mode

Learn how to take control of your camera on the beautiful heather moorland near Sheffield!

Saturday August 16th – 10.00am to 5.00pm. Fully booked.

This course has now taken place, but you can see details of our next beginners’ courses here.

This practical one day course is being held outdoors in the area around Fox House, on the edge of Sheffield, and is accessible by public transport. It has been timed to catch the peak of the heather season, when the moors in the area will turn purple with the blooming heather.

The course is limited to a maximum of just 6 places, which cost £99.00 each. Please contact us to request a booking form, or if you need any further information about the course.

No prior knowledge of photography is required for this course – so it is ideal for people who have just bought their first dedicated camera (and have only previously used a smartphone to take photos), as well as those who have only been using their camera in “auto” mode and would like to learn how to use it to its full potential. The course is not just for owners of digital slrs, but is equally suitable for any type of digital camera provided it can be used in other than “all-auto” or “scene” modes – whether it is a compact “point and shoot” camera, travelzoom, bridge, mirrorless, or dslr.

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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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