Online Photography Course

The ideal way for beginners to learn digital photography

The Beginners Course is the perfect course for those new to photography. Designed to help you get the best from your photography and give you the confidence needed to start taking great pictures.

Now is the chance to really develop your digital photography. Using my many years experience of photography, I have created a class-leading photography course that not only teaches you the basics, but gives you the chance to progress your skills in specific areas that you may want to specialise in.

You will have access to your own personal tutor, who will be on hand to answer all your photography questions along the way, as well as critique your work and help you progress into a confident and skilled photographeras the course progresses.

This course is unlike any other online photography course. The course aims to be an alternative to the popular location-based photography workshop, where you are required to learn as much as you can in just a few days.

Unlike other home study courses, this one is geared towards travel and landscape photography only, not surprisingly, the most popular subject for photography.

I have specialised in this field for over 20 years and have gained a wealth of experience through traveling the length and breadth of Britain, as well as Europe, teaching myself the necessary skills and techniques required to have my work published by clients all over the world. From photography magazines to calendar publishers through to worldwide picture libraries, my work is widely published.

As well as taking pictures, I used to write extensively about the subject. My work was regularly published in many of the UK’s leading photography magazines, and I wrote travel features for many leading travel magazines.

Give your landscape photography the edge

The Advanced Course is the ideal online photography course for those who already have basic camera knowledge. Designed to test your skills and take your landscape photography to the next level.

For those already skilled in the basics of photography, but want to take their landscape photography to the next level, we have the Advanced level Project Tuition Course. This online course is perfect for photographers who want to specialise in travel and landscapes and are looking for a bespoke course that will help them progress and become highly proficient in all aspects of landscape photography.

Unlike other home study courses, both this and the Beginner’s course are tailored towards travel and landscape photography only, arguably the most popular subject for photography. I have specialised in this field for 20 years and for the past few years have been teaching others the skills required to excel in this subject. My work is widely published in magazines, books, newspapers and calendars and I write extensively on the subject for most of the UK photography titles.

The Advanced level course is ideal for anyone who has a firm grasp and understanding of their camera and the  basic skills needed in photography, but really wants a course to test and develop their skills to the maximum. I have put together a course that is different to other courses on the market, featuring lessons that I have expertise in and have a genuine enthusiasm for and therefore can pass on my knowledge to you the photographer. 

The Basics

The course begins by covering the five core lessons of the Beginner’s Course

• Exposure

• Composition

• Depth of field

• Light

• Filters

However, the assignments for each lesson are much more intensive, to test how much your really know. Each lesson has five assignments, giving you challenges in each of the basic skills. You will receive the course notes given in the beginner’s version, to use as a refresher and by completing each assignment, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge of all the key skills, which will help you really progress with your landscape photography.

The Advanced Course is all about mentoring you and helping you discover your full potential

The Project Modules

Once these five basic modules have been completed, you can then tailor the rest of the course with five further modules that suit the area of landscape photography that most interests you. You’ll be offered the choice of five modules from a list of subjects including:

• Advanced Landscapes

• Architecture

• Long exposures

• Panoramics

• Water

• ...plus many more

All of these ten modules are linked to travel and landscape photography. However, if panoramics and black and white don’t interest you, that’s OK. Not interested in night photography? No problem. You can pick the most relevant five to suit you and complete the course learning about these. This makes the course tailored to your photography. No other photography course offers this kind of flexibility and so you only pay for subjects that interest you.

Again, each of the project based modules, goes into much more depth with its assignments, to really challenge your skills and put them to the test. You’ll become highly skilled in each of the different categories you choose, which will help and assist you with all your future photography.

I am presenting this as an online photography course and therefore all correspondence and tuition will be via e-mail. Each of the ten modules will come in the form of a PDF file, presented very much like the kind of feature you would see in a photography magazine. This makes it easy for you to read on your computer, print off or view on your smartphone or tablet even. They explain in depth each technique and illustrated with my own images, which echo the text, giving visual examples of the key points. At the end of the article, will be details of the assignments based on the lesson for you to complete.

This will consist of multiple assignments covering different aspects of the key skills or project-based subjects. You will be asked to take photographs using these techniques and explain your thoughts and process behind the image before sending them to me for critique. I will provide positive feedback on your images and point out where you might be able to improve your skills.

You will gain insight into advanced landscape techniques, giving you the skill to take perfect landscape images.

The in-depth course will cover far more than any location based landscape workshop can offer

Plus your skills and techniques will be perfected so you can produce images that reflect your artistic style.

You will gain insight into advanced landscape techniques, giving you the skill to take perfect landscape images.

The in-depth course will cover far more than any location based landscape workshop can offer

Plus your skills and techniques will be perfected so you can produce images that reflect your artistic style.

Here are some examples of the assignments:

Composition

Foreground

• Take an image that uses a strong foreground element.

• Explain why you chose the composition and the feature used in the foreground

• Explain why you chose the format to shoot this in and would it work in another format.

Lead-in Lines

• Take an image using lead-in lines in the composition.

• Explain your technique needed to make the most of the lines.

• Explain the effect they are having on the composition.

Exposure

Exposure spot readings

• Take an image where a spot meter reading was needed for correct exposure.

• Explain why the image needed to be metered this way and how and where you took the readings from.

Compensation

• Take an image where exposure compensation or a change in aperture or shutter speed has benefited the picture.

• Explain what changes you made and why you feel the change was necessary to produce the final image.

In addition to this, I will be on hand to answer all your questions and you may submit further work or images for critique throughout the course. To keep you focused on the course, you have 12 months to complete it, which should allow plenty of time to work through the lessons at your own pace. If you need longer however, then there is the option to extend if necessary (additional fee will apply).

Course highlights

• Convenience of online learning at your own pace

• Tailored towards digital landscape photography for the advanced or intermediate user

• Full support via e-mail

• A whole year to complete the course (with option to extend the course after this time)

• Full guidance from an experienced professional photographer

• Challenging and in-depth assignments to help you progress with your photography

• Bonus Videos included with this course

Save £40*

Pay by bank transfer and get the course for just £359

Contact me for details of how to pay

Save even more money with e6!

Subscribe to e6 before you enrol and save another 6%. Plus get access to technique videos, eGuides & more.

Price with e6 discount just  £337

Create images full of imagination

A unique and inspiring course designed to bring out the creative photographer in you.  This masterclass is for those who want to create original and dynamic images. Forget the standard view, this is all about thinking ‘outside the box’. Images from the heart. Images with imagination. Images with creativity.

Now there is an online course that will transform your photography. A course to make your photography inspirational and your images more creative than ever.

The Creative Masterclass Course is just as it says, a course designed to help you produce original and imaginative pictures that stand out from the crowd and showcase your creative flair within your own image portfolio.

The course is designed to inspire and encourage you to think outside the box. To embrace your artistic soul into producing images straight from your imagination and reveal to the viewer how you visualise the world.  We take the normal day to day subjects that are covered in the travel and landscape Beginners and Advanced Courses and instead of a “how to” guide, each lesson is full of ideas, suggestions and inspirational examples to kick start your own imagination and creative juices. The end result being work that is unique to you.

A course is designed to inspire and encourage you to think outside the box

Each lesson is packed with images to inspire and the text reflects my own creative process and the inspiration behind each image. There’s plenty of tips and help along the way to get you thinking about your work and then once you have gone off to create your own interpretations, I will be there to review your work and help you form a thorough understanding of creative imagery and push the boundaries of the standard image.

The course consists of 10 lessons that you have 12 months to work through. The first five lessons are more subject-based and will cover how to create imaginative and unique images of the following subjects:

• Landscapes

• Urban

• Coast

• Nature

• Still Life

Each of these five lessons takes an alternate view of the subject and shows you how you can bring each to life with unique interpretations, simply by changing the rules and combining the technology at your finger tips with the limits of your imagination.

The remaining five lessons build on these subjects and cover other options available to you to help you produce your creative work.

• Light

• Black and White

• Long Exposures

• Lomography and iPhoneography

• Post-Processing.

Unleash your creative side with your photography

We concentrate less on the “how to” style of guide on this course and instead inject creative flair and inspiration into your photography thought process and whet your appetite to create imaginative images yourself.

There are lots of ideas and examples throughout and as always, the professional follow up guidance to fine-tune your own creativity with 24/7 online support, advice and critique whenever you need it for the duration of the course.

The ten course lessons are lavishly illustrated with over 250 inspiring images to get your imagination going into overdrive and bring out the creative photographer within. If you have a good eye for photography, if you love experimenting to get new and unique images and if you feel your artistic side is bursting to be released, then this is the course that will get you out there, taking the images you never thought possible.

Ideal students for this course will be of intermediate level and already familiar with an SLR and have a tripod, some filters and a good understanding of shutter speeds, apertures and exposure, as well as White Balance settings and how to process their images to create well exposed images. This course is for those who are already producing good images that they are proud of, but now want to take their images to the next level.

Course Highlights

• Convenience of online learning at your own pace

• Tailored towards creative photography for the advanced or intermediate user

• Full support via e-mail

• Exclusive discount to CameraBag2 software (used in the post-processing lesson)

• A whole year to complete the course (with option to extend the course after this time)

• Full guidance from an experienced professional photographer

• Challenging and in-depth assignments to help you progress with your photography

Save £40*

Pay by bank transfer and get the course for just

£359

Contact me for details of how to pay

Save even more money with e6!

Subscribe to e6 before you enrol and save another 6%

Plus get access to technique videos, eGuides & more

Price with e6 discount just £337

Sample a trial lesson for just £4.99. Download the special introductory lesson and then complete and return. I will review your work and images the same way as in the full course and you can decide whether it is right for you. What’s more, sign up for the full course within 60 days and your £4.99 will be refunded!

Try the course now and see if it can improve your photography

Learn the key skills to adjusting and editing your pictures on the computer

With images captured, find out how to get the best from them with this bonus module on basic photo editing skills. From retouching Jpegs, to a step-by-step guide to processing Raw files, the module tells you all you need to know to get great looking images.

If complicated photo editing and post-processing skills are putting you off enjoying your digital photography, then here is the ideal lesson for you. The first rule that you should understand, is that Photoshop doesn’t have to be complicated and you don’t need to be an expert in the program to edit your pictures successfully. Whether you shoot Jpegs or are considering shooting Raw (perhaps you don’t even know what Raw is, but don’t worry because, this lesson explains it all), there are some simple post-processing techniques that will help you get the most out of your images.

The main Project Tuition Course doesn’t cover photo editing skills, as it is designed to teach you the key skills required to capture your images in camera. This new lesson then, is the ideal compliment to the course and leads you onto the next step of adjusting your images to perfection. The lesson is written in simple, easy to understand steps, with screenshots illustrating each step as you go.

Learn core skills such as:

Jpegs and Raw files

The advantage of shooting Raw

Colour Correction techniques

Levels and correcting exposure

How to use cloning tools

Step-by-step guide to processing a RAW file

Video Tutorials

The module now includes video tutorials showing how I process two images. One is  a typical landscape image and the other an urban landscape view. Both videos will show you how easy it is to process a Raw file.

At the end of the lesson are a set of assignments based on what you have learnt, just like the modules from the online course. You’ll be asked to submit these assignments for review and I will give you valuable feedback on your pictures and text answers. The assignments will assure that you are clear and fully understand the basic editing tools and features required to make your pictures right every time.

Master the key Photoshop skills with step-by-step guides

Practical assignments to test your new skills

• Learn to get the best of your images by shooting Raw

• Ideal for users of Photoshop CC or Photoshop Elements

• Get a review from a pro photographer of your best images