Category: Peak District courses

Saturday October 17th – 10.00am to 4.30pm. Fully booked.

Saturday November 7th – 10.00am to 4.30pm. Places available.

Saturday December 5th – 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. Places cost £99.00 each.

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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Saturday, October 10th – 10.30am to 6.30pm. Fully booked.

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 will involve 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.

Please contact us if you would like to request a booking form to reserve a place on either of these courses. Continue reading “Peak District Autumn Landscapes”

This bespoke one to one training is available on weekdays or weekends throughout the year. Dates available.

The workshop lasts 5 hours and costs £275.00. Please contact us to book your place or if you need any further information.

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 these aviation photography workshops, we will teach you how to:

• choose the correct shutter speeds to either freeze motion, or create 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 (depending on the timing of the training)
• 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

The knowledge you will gain on these workshops will be applicable not just to photographing aircraft, but also to other types of action photography  –  including wildlife, pets, and sports photography (including motorsports). We will be starting with some relatively easy subjects (large jet airliners in good light), before trying our skills on some smaller aircraft and possibly also pictures in lower light conditions during the evening. 

This is a special one to one training opportunity, which can be be arranged at a date and time that suits you. It can also be timed to coincide with the opening days of the East Midlands Aeropark at weekends. The Aeropark is located only 170m from the runway of East Midlands Airport, and offers superb views of aircraft taking off and landing – as well as across to the DHL cargo apron. It also has two large viewing mounds, one of which is higher than the airport perimeter fence, and offers a superb vantage point for photographing aircraft free of any obstructions. The Aeropark has free car parking, toilet facilities and a snack bar, and is open between 10.00am and 3.00pm on weekends from October to March (11.00am to 5.00pm from April to September).

It also has a collection of nearly 30 complete post-WW2 aircraft (including a Vulcan bomber) on display outside, which we can photograph in addition to the arrivals and departures at the airport. A full list of the Aeropark’s aircraft can be seen here. 

East Midlands Airport is the second busiest cargo airport in the UK, with Thursdays being their busiest day of the week. The airport is conveniently located next to the M1 motorway, and Sheffield, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire are all within easy reach. There are also good public transport links by bus and rail from Derby and Nottingham.

We will hopefully have a variety of aircraft types to photograph – from large and small jet airliners and cargo aircraft to turboprop aircraft, business jets and light aircraft. If we’re lucky, we might also get to see the Rolls Royce Heritage Flight’s Spitfire, P-51 Mustang or Harvard which are based here. Continue reading “Aviation Photography Course – Photographing Aircraft in Flight”