the training can take place on a day and at a time that is convenient for you (any day of the week except Saturdays) to fit in with work or family commitments- it is available anywhere – including your own home – within a 15 mile radius of Chesterfield (or throughout the East Midlands and Yorkshire subject to travelling charges)
- it is tailored to your physical abilities – so if you have limited mobility or have difficulty walking, kneeling etc, we can choose an appropriate location.
- you can learn at your own pace in a way that best suits you best – without the distraction of other people.
- the training concentrates just on the areas that you want to learn or improve – whether you are a beginner or more advanced user.
One to one training is very intensive, and in our experience, a 5 hour session is the ideal length – any more than that leads to “information overload” and is too much for most people. For this reason, we recommend a couple of shorter sessions – with time in between to enable you to practice what you have learnt – rather than a full day’s training. However, if you do want a full day’s training, you can book 2 sessions to run one after the other.
A 5 hour training session costs from just £200.00.
Please contact us to discuss your training requirements and check availability.
Thursday August 20th – Aviation and Action Photography Workshop at East Midlands Airport.
A special one to one workshop photographing the different types of aircraft at East Midlands Airport. Have fun while learning the techniques and camera settings you need for photographing fast moving subjects – whether they are aircraft, wildlife, pets or sports. Running from afternoon until just after sunset, we will have a variety of aircraft types and lighting conditions. This special 5 hour one to one workshop costs £275.00. See here for further details. Available for booking.
Sunset and Night Photography.
A flexible 5 hour 1 to 1 workshop, arranged to suit the sky conditions and the client’s preferences. Clients must be able to set shutter speeds, apertures and ISO in fully manual (M) mode and be able to focus their camera manually. We can advise on the best locations in the Peak District for both sunsets and night photography, and also suitable dates depending on whether you want to photograph stars and the Milky Way, the full moon or landscapes lit by moonlight. See here for further details. Dates available.
Camera and Photography Training
Our training is suitable for all types of digital camera – from compacts to bridge cameras, mirrorless compact system cameras and dslrs. Since Peak Digital Training was established, we have seen literally hundreds of different models and makes of cameras on our courses – including ones from Canon, Fujifilm, Kodak, Leica, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Ricoh, Samsung and Sony. If we are not already familiar with your camera model, we will learn how it operates before the training session. Whether you are struggling with a new camera, or just want to understand your existing camera better (e.g. before going on an important trip), we can explain in plain English such things as:
- what its buttons and dials do
- how to access the menus, and what the menu items actually mean
- how the different shooting, metering and focussing modes work
- how to get correct exposure and colours in your photos
- when and how to use filters on your camera
- how to improve the composition of your images
We can offer training on shooting many different types of subjects, with an emphasis on landscapes and nature photography. Popular subjects include waterfalls and moving water, long exposures, night photography, wild flowers and close-ups, aviation and action photography and shooting for HDR or panoramas.
Our trainer is a professional photographer with over 30 years’ experience. He has an extensive knowledge of Derbyshire and the Peak District, having been photographing it for over 40 years. He can recommend the best locations for your training based on the types of subject, time of year and lighting conditions. These will avoid the usual “honeypot” locations, and include much less well-known and more sensitive ones which are unsuitable for taking larger groups of people.
Adobe Lightroom Classic Training and Problem Solving
As a user of Adobe Lightroom for over 15 years, our Lightroom trainer has very extensive knowledge of this software – which he uses to manage and edit his own large collection of images (both digital and film scans). He can help you to get started using the application – including advice on where to actually store your images, how to organise them and how to set up your workspace and preferences in the application. For more experienced users, he can teach the whole workflow from importing images from your camera to editing and outputting them for a variety of different purposes – such as for printing on your own printer at home, preparing files for sending to a lab for printing, or creating web galleries.
Full details of our Lightroom Classic training can be seen here.
And if you are having problems with Lightroom Classic (such as if your pictures suddenly seem to have disappeared, or can no longer be edited) we can help you solve them – potentially saving hours of your time.
As training via video link is particularly well suited to software training (as you can easily switch between seeing your own computer screen and the trainer’s), the online 1 hour session for only £50.00 is great for resolving specific problems that you might be experiencing with Lightroom.
Don’t forget that one to one training can also be bought as a gift using our photography training vouchers.
Online Training From Just £50.00
We are now offering remote one to one training. In addition to our 5 hour in-person training sessions, we are offering special one to one training online (or by phone) for just £50.00 per hour.
You will need to have a webcam and microphone. Most laptops, tablets, phones and many desktop computers (eg iMacs) already have these built in, but if yours doesn’t, separate ones can be connected by USB.