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We have become the leaders in
one to one training on Nikon cameras, to suit just about any need or
interest that you have. Photographers have travelled from all over the world
to experience 1 to 1 training with us.
In our experience the amount of
knowledge and range of experience varies greatly from one professional
photographer to another. Some are highly technically competent, while others
may have kept their cameras in automatic mode. Some have a lot of
marketing ability making the most of many situations where others maybe have
been more interested in the artistic than the marketing side.
Most professionals will already
know one end of the camera from the other, have at least some
knowledge of photography, the amount of course varies very greatly from one
person to another, and with so many speciality areas, few can get the
opportunity to gain experience in a very wide array of areas.
Some may define a professional
as a person who undertakes photography for reward, and although in part we
appreciate this, we would also define a professional as a person who achieves
reliably what they set out to and can take on a wide range of commercial
assignments with confidence. While the enthusiast can take a hundred shots
and show one, a professional commissioned to undertake a task has to be able
to make them all succeed and to do so in a time efficient and cost sensitive
manner.
Generally the further along the
path a photographer has travelled, the more they can see that perhaps one
day they would like to experience. With the consultancy side, and a
large R&D programme, developing new areas of photography, and meeting people
with specific interests that we put together training for, we are
lucky in that we get to develop our skills and experience over a far wider
area than others.
Selecting which is right for
you
For most professionals and 'would
be' professionals this is the
easiest decision to make, in that they will want to maximise the amount of
knowledge and experience that they can get, and avoid waiting for
others to have items explained to them, that they are already very familiar
with. For this reason just about all professional photographers select one to one tuition.
I suspect some would also be reluctant to ask questions in a group with
enthusiasts who have perhaps developed greater technical knowledge.
Quite a few people have a good
film background but have found they have not got all the benefits from
digital that they had hoped for, or have been disappointed by the results
they have produced from some of the latest cameras. While we have
occasionally found problems with cameras brought in, usually it's a case of
not having fully understood all the options available, and how to get
spectacular results from this technology. Where necessary we can compare
cameras, compare lenses and work with the cameras tethered to computers to
see instant results.
Generally people achieve the
least the larger the group and the more, the more individual the attention.
Tutors know that they cover far less ground with a group than with an
individual. A group of three people achieves about five times the subject
coverage as a larger group, and an individual on their own achieves about
three times what a group of three do. You can see this means that for those
that want to achieve a great deal faster, in 3 to 5 days you can cover what would
take a group of people attending a residential course a couple of months to
achieve.
If you have just one day
available, then starting with the HNK course, in a day you become confident
and competent, you start by very quickly going over the basics of photography, going fast
over what you already understand or can follow and slowing down where
necessary to look and experiment, look through many lenses, have a short
introduction to Nikon Capture NX editing, get to understand your cameras controls and menus
fully and far more. With more days you can become proficient in editing, mastering
flash, macro, and many other specialist areas. When you take more courses
including those with some other photographic training providers you can
qualify for discounts.
Some prefer a more discussion
based approach and come to see us for a day or more with a list of points or
topics they want to look at, we are equally able to work with this approach,
although having some idea in advance helps as we can get equipment out and
make sure all items are available that will be required. If you want to use
this approach book with the course code EXE.
Perhaps you would rather look in
depth at a specific area like focus, sharpness and depth of field. Perhaps
exposure or black and white photography, or put a programme together to
look at many of these areas in depth over a period. If so then you may like
to look at our other range of training under the name Photography Skills,
'Beyond the Basics'. This is a collection of 1 to 1 single topic Masterclasses, on their own website now, for those who have mastered the
basics and want to get in deeper, if you want to see the website
click here
or to find out the difference explained on this website
click here.
This website has quite a few
pages, selecting the button on the left above introduces you to each major
area and many of these pages lead to more pages and information.
Pages that you may like to go to
now are:-
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Most popular day courses,
would be a good start, selecting the buttons on the left, will either give
you more choices or will go to the page you have requested.
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One to One - discover
just how much you can achieve on one to one training,
either on a day or over several days. You can have a day or days arranged
to exactly suit your interests, there are suggested multi day courses, and
a wide range of suggestions of what you could do in a day. The most common
and ideal start point for most people is
the HNK, Hands on a Nikon day course, although you can add more days to
this or take one of the multi day versions which includes the HNK element.
If you have the time available why not consider the
executive special MD3, that takes 4
days and 3 evenings. There are a lot more options to explore. With all 1
to 1, you get to choose the dates.
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Picture framing, we have three
courses of different lengths, the shortest being just a day, allowing for
different levels people will want to go to.
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Extended photography
skills course, this is a large 18 month course that requires a lot of
commitment. Maybe worth a look if you are starting out intending to move
rapidly to professional status, or a professional wishing to develop a
wider range of income streams. This is arranged so that you do the parts
first that is most relevant to your interests so can get earning fast if
you wish.
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Business
courses for the professional, or would be professional this will be of
as much interest as the technical areas and you will quickly spot that in
most cases a single commission will produce far more income than the cost
of one of these courses. We are both directors of a range of
companies, and our senior tutor is also the chairman of a business angels
network, helping new businesses to meet funding partners and sorting out
the profitability of businesses of all sizes.
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Systematic learning -
this looks at how a person can develop knowledge or
experience, build on this in a structured way at their own speed to get to
whatever level of expertise they choose.
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Personal learning plan
- with this option we assist you to put together a personal learning plan to
suit your own interests. It can be made up of courses that exist and
elements that are defined, as well as assignments and other features. The
plan can be modified or expanded as your skills and confidence grow.
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Course
list,
shows you the full list of courses we currently have defined, linked
to each of the course descriptions.
You can use the links in blue above or the
buttons on the left above to move around the site. The buttons on the first
page, go to introductory pages like this one for each interest, you have
access to the same pages besides this.
If you don't get on with our menu system, then
try using the extended menu option, top option on the menu, this forces all
the options to be shown at once, If you still can't find the page, then try
the site map.
Through the
website you will see many small photographs, clicking on any of these will bring
up a larger version in a new window, allowing you to take a look without loosing
your place. When you know what you want to
do, you can book directly online, or by post by printing out the booking
form.
New
: Quick start courses, low cost 3 hour one
to one, getting you going fast with the equipment that you have now.
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If you have any problems, can't
find exactly what you want to do, or your question is not covered on our
Q&A page, or just feel like chatting it over with a real
person instead of a computer then call us. We are available most days from 9am
to 9pm, although occasionally for short periods we put the answering machine on.
See the contact us
page. Don't miss the Don't miss the
FREE NIKON lenses and CAMERA DEALS
Also Nikon lenses at half the lowest UK price
you can find.
ALL TOO COMPLICATED,
don't want as much information or choices
then
click here to
go to the very small, basic website.
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Now 100%
of people coming to us have 1 to 1 training.
So much better value
The advantages are
- Individual tuition at your speed, covering
just what you want to cover, on the equipment of direct interest to
you.
- All your questions and concerns get answered
as you think of them.
- Can go faster over ground you are familiar
with and slow down to explore further new areas, or to experiment,
reinforcing your new skills.
- Most get to achieve a great deal more in a
day.
- Economic options with discounts for booking several days.
- With several days, spread over time, you get
to plan your own development, covering the areas of interest to you
at your own speed.
- You select the dates to suit you.
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Why
professional photographers should learn with us
We are very
good professional photographers (take a look at our limited edition website), that
have a lot of photographic experience as well as in both business and
training. On the limited edition side, we do the lot ourselves from
the photography and editing, through printing to making the frames and
framing the images. Our senior tutor earned his first profit from
photography over 40 years ago, and has been involved in many areas and
technologies since, usually as the first in, and today has private R&D projects developing new areas.
We are enthusiastic about photography,
and take very many photographs ourselves across a wide range of
subjects, in some cases just to experiment and discover more of what
we can do.
We have loads of photographic
experience it is unlikely that you, or any other professional photographer
would have a question that we could not answer. We don't employ or
farm out any training to others,.
We specialise in Nikon DSLR's,
and use these ourselves for 100% of our own work, so we really know
these well, what they do, and how to make them produce the best. We
could not do this if we tried to cover more makes, or were only half
committed.
We have loads of kit, cameras, lenses,
flashes, including a 10 flash mobile studio, 5 Nikon flashes forming a
powerful creative lighting system, a full framing workshop, close up equipment, quite a few computers, and far more, with
new items being added all the time. Our list of what we want to buy
over the rest of this year will cost more than the total income from
training last year. You get to handle and try out lots of it and as we
don't sell anything, we can give you a neutral view on all we have and have looked at.
We teach people because we enjoy it and
want to, we are so confident that everyone will find it is exactly
right for them that we offer a 100% money back deal if you do not
find it is right for you. As far as we know no one else has the
confidence to offer this. So far every single person we have had
come to see us has thoroughly enjoyed it with most saying they will be
coming back for more days.
As you check out the rest of our
website you will see why we have become the leader in 1 to 1 Nikon
training, with quite a few people flying in from around the world to
train with us.
I am sure you will agree, we offer the
best training, the question comes down to why anyone would settle for
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New website,
more options ......
Photography Skills,
Beyond the Basics
For those with any camera make who
have mastered the basics and now want to look in depth at specific
single subjects like getting images far sharper, depth of field
and focus, or exposure, or black and white photography.
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