Photography made easy with Avon Studios
A collection of courses covering basic techniques and skills to improve your pictures and get more enjoyment from your photography.
Photography made extra easy
Whether you’re photographing people or holiday landscapes with a tiny compact , this photography course can help. We emphasise composition and break all pictures into two basic kinds with tips on how to get good results with both.
This course is for people just beginning with photography, or who have been taking pictures for a while but not noticing much improvement.
It is suitable for people with all kinds of cameras that use automatic modes, particularly for those with compacts. If they take enough, anyone can get some good pictures – we’ll help you to increase the proportion of usable ones.
Using the amazing backdrops available at our locations, we’ll help you to get the pictures you set out to take. For full details see the courses page.
Digital SLR Photography made Easy
This course will cover picture composition; shutter speeds; f stops and depth of field; ISO; exposure compensation; metering; selecting lenses; white balance; use of flash; tripods and monopods; downloading, sorting and editing your pictures. We’ll look at photographers, from Fox Talbot to Patrick Lichfield.
Modern digital SLR cameras are capable of taking stunning images, but often they just don’t. Many users even just use them on fully automatic mode, lacking the confidence to try the manual or semi-automatic modes.
Understand why most professional photographers use Av, A, S or Tv modes. Take control of your camera! If your camera has these modes, but you never use them, this is the course for you. We’ll also look at which lenses might be right for you.
This course is also suitable for users of top-end compact cameras like the Canon G11 and Nikon Coolpix P6000 and bridge cameras such as the Fuji Finepix S100FS.
Digital Photography for teenagers made easy
A new course for teenagers, looking at composition,the relationship between shutter speeds and aperture and using these to get better pictures to make your friends go wow.
Understanding the various modes on your camera and using these to capture more exciting photos.
Best way to use, size and crop for use on social networking sites such as facebook etc.
Downloading and printing of images to best effect.
This is a 1/2 day course with a fee of £34.50
Wedding Photography made simple
We can’t teach you to be a professional wedding photographer in a day, but we have a photography course that can still help! If you’re one of those friends of the couple with a good camera that’s been dragged into help photograph their wedding, we’ll lend you our experience.
Photographing a wedding is about capturing a series of planned events, while being on the lookout for unplanned ones.
It’s also about taking superb photos, while not ruining the occasion. We have the use of an outstanding venue – the chapel at Walton Hall which has hosted numerous weddings.
This is not a portfolio day where aspiring professional wedding photographers build a portfolio of flattering but unrealistic pictures – you will get the chance to see photography from the perspective of the happy couple.
Photographing People Made Easy
People photographs are divided into formal “portraits”, where the subject is aware they’re being photographed, and “candid’s,” where they aren’t. Portrait photographers know it’s not quite as simple as that. We’ll help you to get natural pictures of people that capture their personalities.
Why is it that so many pictures of people completely fail to grasp their essence? Why do some pictures seem to capture the spirit of a subject, while others don’t?
We have some of the best backdrops in the country, near our studio and will show you how to find one near you.
Expert portrait photographers know the secret of how to get the best out of your subject and we’ll let you in on it! Suitable for anyone with any camera.
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Digital SLR Photography Made Easy Level 2
Digital Photography for teenagers Level 2
Photo Editing & Photoshop Elements Made Easy
- Most courses carry a Fee of £94 and include tea & coffee on arrival and a splendid buffet lunch.
- Courses are limited to a maximum of 10 delegates
- The courses take place at our studio and at nearby locations to the studio.
- One to one tuition is also available at a cost of £34.50 per hour .