Course Diary. 2011 (diary for 2012)
Professional Photography Courses....
These are courses that have already taken place, for other courses to come check out the rest of our courses at Courses for 2012
Jan 8th / 9th / 10th Careers Course.
A one to one course looking into the Wedding and Portraiture markets, covering business, lighting, presentation, web page design and some photoshop. Next course will be on Wedding on the 25th of this month.
Jan 14th / 15th SWPP Lecturing..Salable Landscapes.
Looking at ways of marketing our landsc
ape work. Two lectures speaking about what makes good saleable landscapes.
Jan 25th / 26th / 27th / 28th Wedding Course
A four day Wedding course, covering available lighting, flash and subtraction of light. Looking into all aspects of lighting. Three attended this course, which is the max we now take. Plenty of hands on experience as well as images to use for your portfolio.
Feb 1st / 2nd Portraiture Course.
Here we looked at marketing, studio and outdoor lighting. We looked at what makes a good salable portrait, looking at various styles of work and then how to create your own style. Models supplied too for hands on work, using various lighting techniques.
Feb 8th / 9th Business Course.
A two day course which covered how to get yourself started in professional photography. We look at a range of topics from how to set up your own studio to use of key words to make the booking.
Feb 21st / 22nd Wedding Course.
This was a two day course covering the basics of wedding photoraphy. We looked at lighting types, some business, use of flash, equipement needed and looking at how we photography a wedding.
Models supplied each day, first day was working inside the second day out on location. We have a new model called Natalie, which did really well.
Next wedding course now March 21st, which will be either a three or four day course.
March 1st / 2nd Video Course
A two day course covering sequence making, business, editing, story board making and how to create more than just a record of the day. Practical work set during course, looking at how we can make the wedding video different, no fast forwarding!!
March 7th / 8th / 9th Careers Course.
A three day course, covering marketing and types of photography markets that we can get into. How to book the £5000.00 wedding as your first wedding!! These courses run every month, next course end of April. Places limited.
March 14th / 15th / 16th Portraiture Course.
A three day course looking a various ways of lighting, both outside and inside. We also look at type of markets available to us and how we can get started in this field of photography. Next available spaces now booking for May. All these courses are based on a one to one with deleagtes.
March 21st / 22nd / 23rd / 24th Wedding Course.
The comp
lete wedding course, covering all aspects of wedding photography, from how to make the booking to the final album. Models will be supplied to demonstrate the various lighting techniques required to photograph a wedding to a high standard.
Next wedding course on the 25th April is now full, we limit numbers to max of three people. Next course after that will be the 23rd May, to book your place check out the link below.
March 30th / 31st / 1st April Careers Course.
A one to one course, looking at composition, marketing, business and an introduction into wedding photography. The course is designed for the delegates own needs.
Trip to Tasmania. April 3rd-18th 2011
Tasmania lies the oth
er side of the world, a wonderful country where the air is so clear and crisp. The only other place that reminded me of this was Norway. Traveling time took around 30 hours, which included two stops.
Plenty of Photo opportunities, lots of forests and open spaces where you could drive for four hours and not see another car. Un spoilt and beautiful, where the wildlife is protected, which includes the snakes! A quarter of the land has not been mapped, where you could easily get lost and maybe never find your way out. This has happened to escaped convicts years back, that escaped from prison only 
to never made it out of the forests.
Some of the rivers are un explored, and on one we landed on by sea plane was so remote it would take weeks to get back to a main road!
Off roading was fab, drive for miles along dirt track, through forests and wilderness, avoiding the kangaroos crossing the tracks!
A place where you can take a train journey and the people sit outside on the windows, with their legs over the side of the coaches!
A land bigger that the UK, with a population of only half a million people. 
Next course is on the 25th April, which is a wedding course, this one is now full. We have only two places left on the one after that, which is the 23rd May.
The Tasmaian Devil is now only found in tasmania, they used to be seen in Austrailia too. They are protected now and free to roam the countryside. They can eat an animal until nothing is left, no bones or skin, a good way of getting rid of a body!
Their te
eth and jaws are so strong that you would not stand a chance if you get caught by one.
They are about the size of a small pig with a face that looks like a rat! You would not want to fall into a pit with one of these and waiting till they get hungry!
April 25th / 26th / 27th / 28th Wedding Course.
A four day wedding course, looking at all aspects of wedding photography. We addended a church, looking at how we work with light that we have available to us. Models were supplied to work with under the various lighting techniques.
Images were then shown a
nd presented using photoshop and adjustments made. Various ways of presentation were shown down to the finished product. Our next course will be on the 23rd of May, running for three days.
May 3rd / 4th Video Course.
Here we looked at ways of videoing a wedding, from moments before the wedding till the going away after the wedding. There is a demand from people to have their wedding done in a professional way, and we show you how to do that and how to make it different from others on the market. Next Video course will be held in July.
May 10th / 11th / 12th Portraiture Course.
A three day course looking at how we work with a session photographing families and children. Both outside and studio lighting was shown, down to presentation, use of key works and final presentation.
May 16th / 17th / 18th Careers Course.
A three day course looking at marketing, running promotions and how we sell larger wall portraits. Practical work also was undertaking working with outside lighting, using models.
May 23rd / 24th / 25th Wedding Course.
A three day wedding course looking at lighting, planning, Album presentation, pricing and how to market yourself. Next wedidng course on the 28th June, places limited. We have places on our next Careers Course running on the 14th June. This course will cover wedding, portraiture and business.
June 7th / 8th Landscape Course.
This course we were out on location to some of the most beautiful parts of Pembrokeshire, looking at composition and lighting.
July 5th / 6th / 7th Portraiture Course.
A three day course where we covered all aspects of lighting both outside and in. Also covered was marketing and how to produce your own style. Models were used on all three days and there was plenty of opportunity of creatinf some great images for you to use in your own portfolio.
July 26th / 27th / 28th Wedding Video Course.
A three day course, covering how to Video a wedding from house start to the going away of the Bride and Groom. Looking at sequence making, editing, story boarding, music blending and much more.
Plenty of hands on experience with the camera, visiting locations and churchs.
August 16th / 17th / 18th / 19th Wedding Photography Course.
A four day course looking at all aspects of how to photography a wedding, from equpiment to producing the final Album. Lighting is a big part of this course, covering both inside and outside lighting.
Next course is running at the end of August and can be either a two or four day course.
August 25th / 26th Video Course
Here we looked at ways of videoing a wedding, from moments before the wedding till the going away after the wedding. There is a demand from people to have their wedding done in a professional way, and we show you how to do that and how to make it different from others on the market.
September 20th / 21st / 22nd Wedding Video Course.
This course provided plenty of hands on experience working with sequence making. A whole wedding was covered from house start till end of evening, looking at lighting, order of events and blending with music.
October 19th / 20th Portraiture Course.
A two day course looking at marketing, lighting, studio work and business. Models were supplied both to demonstrate outside and inside lighting.
October 24th / 25th / 26th / 27th / 28th Careers Course.
A five day careers course for photography, looking a all aspects from marketing to lighting. Models were supplied each day to show both lighting and posing. Next careers course on the 7th November for five days.
November 1st Careers Course one to one.
Looking at home to sell landscape work and use of Photoshop.
Dec 13th / 14th / 15th / 16th Wedding Course.
Another four day course covering everything you will need to know about photographing a wedding. The course was over four days, with hands on experience using models.
