Learn From The Experts - Creating Your Individual Style

Giv­en the suc­cess of our online cours­es in recent years, we have been reflect­ing on how much we, and all the pho­tog­ra­phers that we have worked with, had enjoyed their time. Until now, much of what we have taught has been based on how to process and inter­pret images, from a raw cam­era file to fin­ished fine art print. Although look­ing at these process­es is huge­ly impor­tant to achiev­ing a high qual­i­ty out­put, it explores lit­tle about the pho­tog­ra­ph­er themselves.

Almost all of the pho­tog­ra­phers we have worked with over the years are pur­su­ing a cer­tain ​‘look’ in their work, they want their images to have that ​‘feel’ and essence about them. It may be dark­ly print­ed black and white images, or images that lift your spir­its and raise a smile in the view­er. Either way, you must strive to make images con­sis­tence and in line with your visu­al sig­na­ture, and this is what this new online work­shop is all about. 

This is not all about adjust­ment slid­ers and dia­logue box­es, but about the impact of your work and how you can make it indi­vid­ual to you. It is always tru­ly enlight­en­ing to move on from tech­niques to the nar­ra­tive in the pho­to­graph, after all, as pho­tog­ra­phers we are all try­ing to com­mu­ni­cate visually.

You will be set tasks that will encour­age you to go away and explore how your work will evolve and flour­ish through self reflec­tion. Reg­u­lar catch up online ses­sions will be held to dis­cuss progress and share ideas on how fur­ther devel­op­ment can be har­nessed and Paul and Michael will be there through­out your jour­ney to help you nur­ture your per­son­al style with indi­vid­ual one to one sessions.

Our group online ses­sions will be held for 2 hours at 7.00pm UK time on the 13^th, 16^th, 21^st and 24^th Novem­ber 2023. 1 to 1 ses­sions will be sched­uled at times mutu­al­ly con­ve­nient to your­self and your tutor dur­ing each week of the course.

“First of all, thank you both for your help and encour­age­ment, and your excel­lent advice on my images. I found the course inter­est­ing and challenging.I enjoyed the prac­ti­cal nature of the course, work­ing with our own images to devel­op styles. I have attend­ed lec­tures before about cre­ativ­i­ty and style, but I learnt more from cre­at­ing pan­els than any amount of the­o­ret­i­cal advice.
Although I have put pan­els togeth­er in the past they have always been pan­els of sim­i­lar sub­jects. Putting togeth­er a pan­el with a wide range of sub­jects but a recog­nis­able style was ini­tial­ly a very daunt­ing idea, but I am real­ly pleased to have done it.” JH

“When I start­ed this course I was­n’t sure what to expect, but in the event I thor­ough­ly enjoyed it. The tasks set by Paul and Michael were both chal­leng­ing and stim­u­lat­ing and helped me to look at my work with a fresh eye, and over­all I took a lot away from the course. The work of the oth­er mem­bers of the group was quite inspi­ra­tional and has encour­aged me to try some­thing out­side my nor­mal com­fort zone. If sim­i­lar cours­es are run in the future I would high­ly rec­om­mend any who wants to push them­selves a bit in their pho­tog­ra­phy to join.” MP

“I thought the course was bril­liant. I think the 1 to 1 worked very well and you com­pli­ment each oth­er so well in the many areas are cov­ered. I real­ly enjoyed the chal­lenges and also enjoyed immense­ly see­ing oth­er people’s work.Thanks for all your efforts and help­ing me move on.” BH