Have you ever wanted to take amazing photos like the professionals?

Well now you can...

Creative Photography Wales offers you a fantastic range of courses for all levels of skill that will teach you both the creative and technical aspects of photography with impeccable patience, understanding and enthusiasm.

“Good, practical and personalised tuition, affordable price and a beautiful area – what more can anyone want?” Tim, Hampshire – One to One Course, Pembrokeshire, June 2010

 

Using a graduated filter to bring out detail in skies

 

Your choice of course includes:

• One to One Courses – Each uniquely designed around what you want to learn

• Group Courses – Share your learning experience in a fun, supportive 6-7 hour expedition

• ‘Dawn ‘til Dusk’ Experiences – A special all day tour to suit you perfectly

• Short Break Packages – Stay in charming B&Bs, eat delicious food and take great photos

• Staff Training For Businesses – Team building with a difference

• Evening Classes and Longer Courses – Find out about a course near you

Whether you’re in the Brecon Beacons, Pembrokeshire or anywhere else in the UK we’ll visit stunning locations, each offering a particular type of photo opportunity and you’ll return home with some great memories, quality prints of your best images and knowledge that’ll enhance your photography forever!

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What you’ll learn 

We’ve all seen the technical expert with all the equipment imaginable but who lacks knowledge of composition and other creative skills to capture effective images; likewise most of us have seen (or taken!) potentially great images let down by technical faults such as over-exposure, camera shake or poor focussing.

Our courses cover a wide range of subjects backed up by a set of Course Notes illustrated with Nigel's images to take away with you which you'll find difficult to beat anywhere! Each course note also comes with practical exercises which you can use time and time again after the course has finished. View and Download the current Course Notes Contents Page here. Also, the notes are being continually expanded and updated.

 

So you get: 

• Expert tuition with clear explanation in both technical and creative aspects of photography. 

• Learning in the latest techniques in digital photography, using Photoshop at the end of the course to process, complete and print your best images.

 Although our courses are essentially outdoors or ‘landscape’ based, any course participant needing advice on any other aspect or subject in photography need only ask and Nigel will do his best to help and if possible allow time for you to practise your preference or issue during the course. We also send out a short questionnaire in advance so that we can more accurately tailor the course to your needs.

All One to One courses also include the most comprehensive set of course notes available anywhere, covering a wide range of photographic subjects and complete with lots of practical exercises for you to use long after the course has finished. View and download a FREE example of our course notes

 

DISABILITIES

Please note that if you have a disability, don't worry! Just say so on the Course Questionnaire giving as much detail as you wish, and Nigel will design the course specifically to meet your needs. 

 

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Technical skills:

• The essential settings on your camera; exposure and focussing modes, ISO, Image Quality, white balance, 

• Using different lenses, understanding focal length and depth of field

• Use of manual settings, aperture and shutter speed and why they can allow YOU and not the camera to take control of your image

• Use of filters and how they can enhance your photography

• Use of accessories; filters, tripod, flash

• The advantages of using RAW in digital photography

• How to read your histogram

How to create that milky water look!

 

Creative understanding

• Understand how to perceive and view the landscape

• Learn the guidelines for effective composition

• How to create dramatic perspectives with wide angle lens and great abstract landscapes with your zoom lens

• Light and contrast theory

• Photographing moving water and other creative uses of long exposure photography.

• Colour theory and choosing images for black & white

Create a striking black & white landscape

 

Digital camera and processing techniques:

• Photomerges – creating those great panorama’s

• HDR (High Dynamic Range) – see how you can create that glowing castle in front of a setting sun.

• How to prepare an image for Photoshop processing in Camera RAW

• Converting  images to black & white

• Cropping, adding contrast or colour / tonal change to an image

• Merging two images to create one

• Removing unwanted objects!

 

Learn how to create an HDR Photomerge - now there's a challenge!

Subjects

• Landscapes

• Abstract photography

• Architecture & Interiors

• Events and action photography

• And of course whatever particular photographic interest you have you need to know!

Obviously there’s more time to cover a wide range of aspects of photography in a One 2 One course, but on the group courses we do our best to cover a variety of subjects of common interest, and of course Nigel is on hand at any time to answer any specific questions you may have.

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What you’ll need for the course!

Your experience:

Our courses are designed to cater for all levels of knowledge and experience. If you’re a newcomer to photography, Nigel will take you through the basics of camera control and image composition. For the more experienced, learn more advanced techniques and how to take those dramatic and innovative pictures you only thought were the preserve of the professional!! 

Your equipment:

Your level of equipment is likely to relate to your level of experience – generally the more pictures we take the more we collect and the more we find we need! Our courses are flexible enough to cater for participants with just a camera or a full range of equipment. However, while a compact camera with a fixed lens would enable you to gain benefit from the group workshops, we do advise those booking One 2 One tuition to possess a DSLR camera with interchangeable lenses and preferably a tripod. We can of course advise on any equipment you wish to purchase either before or after the course and the course information pack included advice and tips on buying equipment.

Your fitness and experience of the outdoors:  

Courses are designed to accommodate all levels of fitness and we ask you to complete a short Health and Safety questionnaire before the course commences so that we take any specific requirements or concerns into account. However, while one or two of the itineraries include steep ascents and some of the terrain may be rocky (or wet!), all walks to destinations are fairly short and it is worth remembering that this is a photography course and not a strenuous hiking trek!  You will however need to have appropriate all-weather clothing and footwear for outdoor activities.

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Why not give someone photography lessons as a gift?

Creative Photography Wales can provide you with the perfect gift for you to give to about a friend or loved one. Book any course from a One Day workshop to a 2 Day 2 Centre course and that special person will enjoy an experience to remember!

 

 

 

What’s included?

One 2 One courses include the following:

• All day digital photography tuition from a professional photographer

• All transportation to and between photographic locations (also to / from accommodation if booked as a package).

• Comprehensive instruction handouts with practical exercises for you to learn from after the course has finished (both in hard copy and digital format) 

• Refreshments during studio based tuition sessions

• Up to three prints up to A3 width of your best images

• Loan of photographic accessories if needed

One day group courses include handouts as above, all transportation, and A3 prints of your best images for a small charge of £5 per print.

 

...and what’s not included

• Food and drink for outdoor sessions (except if booked as a package in which case a packed lunch is provided)

• Accommodation (unless booked as part of a package)

• Equipment (although if agreed in advance we may be able to help with any accessories you have yet to possess).

 

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Whatever course you choose you're guaranteed to improve your photography. View some satisfied clients here! ....and some images taken on our courses here!