Here are the dates for our next digital photography courses in the Derbyshire Peak District and on the edge of Sheffield for the next few months. They are all one day courses, in small groups (with a maximum of only 4 or 6 people), led by an experienced professional photographer with extensive local knowledge. You can read what some of our clients have said about our courses here on Google.
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You can contact us to request a booking form for any of our training courses listed below. Just click on the links for more information about individual courses.
Saturday, January 26th – Getting Started with Adobe Lightroom. An introductory course to get you up and running with Lightroom, and show you how to import, organise, compare and select your images. Suitable for complete beginners.
Saturday February 2nd – beginners’ digital photography (part 2) – getting creative near Fox House on the edge of Sheffield. A full day on the moors, which will be divided between photographing waterfalls in a sheltered little valley, and other subjects such as the abandoned millstones and gritstone edges on the moors.
Saturday February 9th – beginners’ digital photography (part 1) – getting off auto. The first part of our beginners’ level courses is designed to help you take control of your camera, and get you off the “all-auto” mode. Held in the warmth and comfort of Tansley Village Hall, near Matlock in Derbyshire. Suitable for all makes and models of digital cameras – from compact cameras to dslrs. Fully booked.
Saturday, February 16th – Edit your photos with Adobe Lightroom. This course concentrates solely on Lightroom’s editing functions in the Develop module. No previous photo editing experience is necessary.
Saturday, February 23rd – Landscape photography course near Matlock in Derbyshire. A great location for practising long exposures with moving water. Some spectacular weirs, waterfalls and old mill buildings in a state of “romantic decay” – all in a very compact area requiring little walking. Only one place still available.
Saturday March 2nd – beginners’ digital photography (part 1) – getting off auto. The first part of our beginners’ level courses is designed to help you take control of your camera, and get you off the “all-auto” mode. Held in the warmth and comfort of Tansley Village Hall, near Matlock in Derbyshire. Suitable for all makes and models of digital cameras – from compact cameras to dslrs.
Saturday March 9th – Using Composition to Make Better Photos. A mixture of classroom based learning in the morning and a photo walk in the afternoon, based in Tansley in Derbyshire. Suitable for all levels of photographers and all types of cameras – from phone cameras to professional dslrs.
Saturday March 16th – beginners’ digital photography (part 2) – getting creative in Monsal Dale in the Peak District. 10.00am to 5.00pm. Photographing moving water at the spectacular weir for half the day, as well as other nearby subjects depending on the light.
Saturday, March 23rd – Peak District landscape photography course in Monsal Dale. A spectacular weir to photograph in this beautiful dale, along with other nearby subjects.
Saturday March 30th – beginners’ digital photography (part 1) – getting off auto. The first part of our beginners’ level courses is designed to help you take control of your camera, and get you off the “all-auto” mode. Held in the warmth and comfort of Tansley Village Hall, near Matlock in Derbyshire. Suitable for all makes and models of digital cameras – from compact cameras to dslrs.
Saturday, April 13th – Peak District landscape photography course in Lathkill Dale. A full day in this National Nature Reserve with a wealth of subject matter – including waterfalls, mining remains, spectacular cliffs, a cave and spring wild flowers. Always a very popular location with our clients! Fully booked.
Saturday April 20th – beginners’ digital photography (part 2) – getting creative in Lathkill Dale in the Peak District. Practice photographing moving water in this beautiful Nature Reserve, as well as spring flowers, abandoned mine buildings and spectacular limestone scenery.
If none of these courses are convenient for you, and you would prefer training on weekdays, why not book some bespoke one to one training at a time and place to suit you?
Our next beginners’ digital photography (part 1) courses are full day workshops designed to help you take control of your camera and get off the “all-auto” modes! We run at least one of these courses on nearly every month of the year at a variety of locations in Derbyshire, the Peak District and on the edge of Sheffield. Part 1 of our beginners’ level courses is suitable for all makes and models of digital cameras – from compact “point and shoots” to digital slrs. Each course is limited to a maximum of 6 people, and everyone attending will receive a printed sheet listing the most important settings (and explaining exactly how to set them) for their particular make and model of camera.
Part 2 of our beginners’ level courses is where you can start to unleash your creativity! This course is the second part of our digital photography courses for beginners, and the ideal follow-on for anyone who has already been on one of our beginners’ digital photography (part 1) courses. On these full day outdoor workshops, we concentrate less on basic camera settings, and more on the use of shutter speeds and lens apertures for creative effect. All of the course locations are carefully chosen to take advantage of some of the most spectacular subject matter that is available at the particular time of year – waterfalls, wild flowers, heather moorland, autumn colours etc. Each course is limited to 6 persons, and places cost £85.00 each. Tripods and filters are available for you to borrow at no cost, if necessary.
For more experienced photographers – or people who have already been on our beginners’ level courses – we run Peak District landscape photography courses throughout the year. These intermediate level courses are limited to just 4 people, with places costing £85.00 each. They concentrate more on creative aspects of photography – such as composition – rather than technical ones (those are covered more on our beginners’ level digital photography courses). Our landscape photography courses all involve a full day’s outdoor photography, in stunning locations in Derbyshire or the Peak District, chosen to be at their best at the particular time of year. They almost always include some waterfall or moving water photography, as well as other popular subjects such as abandoned millstones and gritstone edges, wild flowers, heather moorland and lead mining remains depending on the location and time of year. Tripods and filters are available for you to borrow at no cost, if necessary.
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