Photographic Courses and Seminars are run from our workshops in our school of photography located in Bournemouth, Dorset, including two fully equipped working studios and seminar rooms.

As a City&Guilds accredited centre, we offer workshop diplomas with City&Guilds accredition.

Courses and Seminars are intended for the keen photographer who is looking to develop their photography skills into a profitable business. All our courses are very practical and therefore will involve a lot of picture taking, enabling you to create your own portfolio.

Our short courses run from two to ten days and tuition on all aspects of commercial photography is offered. All seminars are modelled on our own business practices, and we share all our information and experiences with you; this includes all pricing and costing. We also give you examples of our bookkeeping and the day to day running of a photographic business.

Practical portrait photography sessions in the studio will focus on familiarity with studio equipment (including home/mobile studios) and lighting. We will teach you how to set-up the studio lights for different looks (including high and low key),measure the flash correctly and pose your models.

You will also be given an introduction to digital manipulation using Photoshop. Including editing wedding shoots, basic photo re-touching i.e. softening wrinkles, teeth whitening etc and creating montages. We will show you how to enhance your photos to a more artistic level.

The wedding seminar covers the whole aspect of wedding photography, from obtaining bookings through to producing the final album. In addition to the theory there will also be shoots with models on location at a local beauty spot, at home, in a church and in the studio. We will also cover technical difficulties you may encounter while photographing the intimate portraits of the bride and groom as well as how to set-up and pose the group photographs.