How will I learn to take better photos? What’s involved in the course?

Week 1: An introduction to photography and light + phone photography and settings.  What makes a good photo, brief history of photography, how a camera works, using light to create a photograph.  Plus phone settings and taking photos on your phone.

Week 2: An introduction to composition.  Using various composition rules and techniques to create interesting and eye-catching photographs.

Week 3: Editing photos on your phone.  Improving your photographs with some editing techniques; filters and editing within Instagram, and using an editing app on your phone.

Week 4: Accessories.  An overview of some of the accessories you can use in your phone photography. (A smaller week this week at the half way point, to give you time to catch up if needed).

Week 5: Photo tips for your business: selfies, portraits, products (straightforward shots, lifestyle, works in progress, close-ups), flatlays, behind the scenes, events.

Week 6: Getting your brand into your photos.  The look and feel of your brand, planning your photos, styling your photos, taking and editing photos for your brand, consistency.

Each week a thorough pdf full of info and examples will be emailed to you for you to read and refer back to, and save you taking notes in the lives.  There will be lives each week in our private facebook group just for course members, to go through each module and answer any questions you have.  Plus group zoom calls for Q&A sessions.  There will be homework tasks each week to make sure you learn and practice your photography.  Share your photos in the group and I will give feedback too.

So who’s teaching you all this?!

Hello!  I’m Jane, a branding photographer based in Kent, UK.  I have been taking photos since I was at least seven, when my favourite birthday present was my first camera!  My first proper job was in a picture library, selling photographs – but I soon realised that I wanted to be the one taking them, so I found some evening classes and got learning properly.  Then followed nearly a decade of photographing for other companies, before children, and redundancy, led me to starting my own photography business.

I love meeting and photographing other amazing business owners, and creating them beautiful story-telling imagery that will build their stand-out brand and grow their business.  And I’ve discovered that I love teaching photography too!  So let’s have fun sorting out and super-charging your social media photos :) 

I don’t sell products, can I still do the course?

Yes!  Almost all of the course will still be really relevant.  In fact, without products to photograph and share all the time, this course will help you to see all the other photos that you can take and share from behind the scenes of your business, so your customers can really get to know you.

How long does the course take?

The live element of the course will take place over six weeks, probably starting in February 2023, and running up to the Easter holidays.  The zooms will be recorded and available to watch back via the course hub here in the Academy.   

Do I have to finish it by then?

After the end of the six weeks you’ll still have access to the pdfs that I will send each week, so you can keep referring back to all the info.  You’ll still be able to ask questions in the facebook group too.  And you can follow along with future courses too for any re-fresh that you need.