Upcoming Courses

• • Beginners Course - Saturday 31st August 2019
  • Bird & Landscape Course - Sunday 1st September 2019
  • Beginners Course - Saturday 14th September 2019
  • Intermediate Course - Sunday 15th September 2019
  • Big Cat Photography Course - Sunday 29th September 2019
  • Beginners Course - Saturday 26th October 2019
  • Night Photography Course - Sunday 27th October 2019
  • Studio Portrait Course - November 2019 - Please contact me with preferred date
  • HDR & RAW Course - Students waiting. Please contact me if interested.
  • Flash Photography Course - TBA - Please contact me if interested.
  • Creative Lighting Course - Sunday 1st December 2019
• Specialist Courses
• • 1-2-1 Photography Course Leicester
  • Lightroom Course
  • Photoshop Tuition
  • Composition Course
  • 5 Day Intensive Photography Course
  • 5 Day Advanced Photography Course
  • Product Photography Course
  • Newsletter Photography Course

Which courses would you like for October, November and December 2019? 

I have a poll on the DPC Facebook page with a list of potential courses so it would really help me plan things if you can add your choices.  See here - facebook.com/groups/digitalphotographycourses I’m trying to plan a composition and Seeing the Picture Course for a week day in September so contact me if interested - https://digitalphotographycourses.co.uk/composition-course-3/ One of the planned courses is the Studio Portrait Course which, at the moment could be on the 3rd or 17th November 2019 - Please contact me with your preferred date. I also have lots of people wanting Lightroom and Photoshop courses during the winter months but, as I have limited weekends, anyone who can attend midweek get preference. Contact me for possible dates.

Welcome to the new DPC website

About 10 years ago I had the smart idea to start running beginners photography courses and so I set up a little 3 page website to see if there was a market. It seems there was.

A decade later and we’re up to over 20 different courses and the website had grown into a monster with over 50 pages. I’ve been wanting to build a new web site for at least two years but the task has been so daunting I’ve always put it off, until now.

So what’s finally made me do this?

Mobile Phones! I read a statistic recently that said 52% of online purchases were now on a phone rather that a PC or Laptop. Though the original website contained loads of useful information it didn’t display well on a small mobile screen. This new one is fully optimized for mobile so hopefully everyone will find it easier to navigate and read on a phone or tablet. I’ve tried to keep it as clean and simple as possible, while keeping some of the branding of the original website.

To help get the new website up the rankings can you please leave me a 5 Star Google Places review by clicking the orange button halfway down the home page or Click https://g.page/digital-photography-courses/review

Clicking the yellow banner on the Home Page will go directly to the Google Places review page

Could I ask people to do a Google search for whatever you would type in to find a course and see if the new website appears? When find the new site could you please click on the orange Google Review link, about half way down the page, and leave me a nice review about the courses. Cheers Glen.

You can go directly to the new website here - https://digitalphotographycourses.co.uk/

Or Click this shortlink to go directly to the Google Places review page https://tinyurl.com/y5chn9nw

By poplular request I've added an extra Extra Bird and Landscape Photoraphy Course for Sunday 1st September 2019.

This course will be how you how to photograph landscapes, flowers, birds & other wildlife in their natural habitat. It takes place at the Anglia Water Bird Watching Centre, Rutland Water, Oakham, Leicestershire. A DSLR with at least a 200mm zoom lens or Bridge Camera with 12x zoom is required. The course runs from 9.30am - 5pm and a buffet lunch is included
This course also gives you some great hints and tips on how to compose a great landscape photograph.

The next Night Photography Course will be on Sunday 27th October 2019.

This very popular course will show you how to take pictures at night without using your flash. The course starts at 2pm and ends about 9pm and includes a light supper. Your own tripod would be helpful but we do have a couple of spares if needed.

The course includes: portraits by candle light, buildings at night, car light trails, writing with light, painting with light. I also cover the techniques for northern lights, lightning, meteors plus some trick photography. Weather permitting, we should also be able to photograph the moon and maybe even some stars.

Creative Lighting Course Sun 1st December

This is a great fun course for those dark winter months. We take pictures of water droplets, peppers splashing into water, smoke trails and any other silliness we can think of on the day.

We also show you how to use other light sources, like candles, torches and Christmas Lights, to create bokeh effects. It's the ideal course if you would like to know how to use your shiny new flashgun or just fancy some nice pictures for your kitchen wall.

A flash extension cable or remote release for your flashgun is very useful for this course and you will also require a tripod but we do keep a couple of spares.

Lightroom Classic CC with Photoshop CC

As the days will soon be getting colder and darker I will be running more midweek Lightroom/Photoshop Courses.

These will mainly be 221 days at £199 but I might also run a group course at £135. Contact me for details.

I believe the best package to get is the £9.98 PCM Photography package which includes

• Lightroom CC (Online version)
• Lightroom Classic CC (Desktop version)
• Photoshop CC
• 20GB of cloud storage

Which Version of Lightroom & Photoshop ?

• The new subscription versions of Lightroom and Photoshop can be confusing so hopefully this will make it clearer.
  
  
• Up until version 6 you purchased Lightroom and Photoshop outright. Lightroom costs about £120 and Photoshop was about £600.
  
  
• Lightroom CC is the slower online version of Lightroom which is not as powerful as Lightroom Classic CC and you require an internet connection.
  
  
• Lightroom Classic and Photoshop are so well integrated that we us we use Include some Photoshop on the Lightroom Course.
  
  
• Lightroom CC is really intended for people uploading and editing from their phone or iPads as these have limited storage.
  
  
• I find 20GB is plenty as I only upload JPGs and store all my RAW files on external USB HDDs.
  
  
• A couple of years ago Adobe went to a subscription model and called it the Creative Cloud (CC). Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC together now cost about £10 PCM which also includes 20GB of online storage.
  
  
• Originally Lightroom CC was the same as Lightroom 6 but as Adobe added new features to Lightroom CC the CC version became more powerful than LR6 and included an online version of Lightroom called Lightroom Mobile.
  
  
• Last year Adobe had a stupid Lightroom name rebranding which caused huge confusion to photographers everywhere. Lightroom CC was renamed Lightroom Classic CC (I will refer to this as Lightroom Desktop) and Lightroom Mobile became the online version of Lightroom CC.
  

Find Us on Facebook.

If you haven't joined the DPC Facebook Group then you can still do so by following the links below. This is a closed group for DPC students only.

New course dates are announced first on the Facebook Group and sometimes sell out before they get into this newsletter. A good example is the Big Cat Course which sold out within 24 hours of being announced. Let me know if this is a course you would like to attend as I might try and add an extra date.

• Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/digitalphotographycourses