Inspirational 1 day Manchester photography courses to get your creative juices flowing! For all those who’d like to get to know their artistic side a little better and engage in something mindful for themselves. Maybe you’d like to shoot in manual and be a little more in control or just find a reason to take more pictures! These workshops are suitable for complete beginners, keen amateurs wanting to brush up on their manual skills and even semi-pros who want to learn how to use light more creatively in their images. This will be my 6th year running urban photography workshops in Manchester and they’ve been enormously successful, with many of my attendees going on to earn from their photography and others leaving inspired to make photography a more integral part of their lives.

The urban photography workshops will inspire you to take images you want to put on the walls of your home or in family albums that you’re thoroughly proud of. Whatever you enjoy taking pictures of (and maybe you don’t know what that is yet!) this course will give you ideas, passion and technical guidance taught in a way that isn’t daunting, so that you can begin to feel more confident about picking up your camera. Exposing images correctly and creatively, using aperture, shutter speed, ISO and creative composition will definitely give your photos the edge.

The Manchester Photography Courses require you bring a DSLR (digital camera with full manual capability) old or new. We will begin with a session covering the basic knowledge needed to take better photos with your DSLR using the manual camera functions, aperture, shutter speed and ISO. You will shoot in manual the whole day. We look at light, exposure, composition, creativity, how to choose your subjects/scenes wisely, where and when to take photos to get the best results and even when NOT to take photos! I also give you the knowledge you need to store, use and print your images to make sure you get the best results. Workshops are suitable for anyone from beginners to people wanting to brush up their manual skills and get inspired with light! You really can go at your own pace.

The Photography Course Itinerary

We’ll be based in Manchester City Centre in a luxury workspace and we’ll start at 9am, running through until 5pm.

The workshop will start with a brief getting to know each other and your camera over a cuppa,  followed by the manual technical session. We then practise our new knowledge of the manual settings with a little indoor shooting and then follow this with some further creative shooting outdoors in the city.

Lunch and a drink are included, then out again to practise some more portrait based techniques using light, creativity and some human models!

Finally back to the venue at around 3.30pm to chat about choosing your images, how to use and store them and any questions!

Following the day I’ll invite you into my Photography Classroom Community so you can share the photos you took from the workshop and get a little critique. You can use the group as a general Q & A platform so that I can help you along over time as you get to grips with what you’ve learned and join some of my creative photography projects to inspire your progress.

*You must bring your own DSLR camera with at least 1 lens