Learn to create, edit and sell top-quality travel images
Overview
Simply photographing an exotic location is easy, telling its story is considerably harder. This intensive two-day course will show you how to create, edit and sell top-quality travel images, as well as nurturing your instincts to help you develop your personal style – and your career.
Through a combination of lectures and practical exercises, you'll cover everything from photographic basics and the use of editing software up to advanced techniques of composition and lighting. There are also sessions on using editing software, and how to market your work to publications and agencies. You'll also receive invaluable feedback on your pictures from our panel of experts, to encourage and inspire further improvement.
Course description
This course , led by expert professional photographers, will take you through creating, editing and selling top-quality travel images. The emphasis is on finding your own particular style and improving on that. The course assumes you have a DSLR camera and have used it.
We cover everything from photographic basics up to advanced ideas of composition and lighting, plus sessions on understanding digital equipment, relevant computer programs and markets for your work. Working in small groups you will have plenty of chance to pick our experts' brains on any aspect of photography.
Practical sessions will be followed by feedback and advice from our experts to encourage and inspire further improvement. The course is suitable for aspiring travel photographers whether you want to pursue a career in editorial work, supply a library, win prizes, publish books or simply improve your photographic abilities.
Tutor profile
Kevin Rushby is a travel photographer, author and journalist. After finishing university in Newcastle in 1982 he bought a one-way ticket to Cairo – the start of a journey that would take him through Egypt, Sudan, Central African Republic, Uganda, Zaire and Kenya. He started working for newspapers and magazines while in Kuala Lumpur, and is the author of four acclaimed travel books – including Hunting Pirate Heaven (an investigation of 17th century pirate utopias in the Indian Ocean) and Paradise: A History Of The Idea That Rules The World. Kevin is Guardian Travel's 'Explorer' and a contributor to the Saturday Review. You can find out more on his website.
Andy Earl is a professor of photography at Norwich University and a leading professional for many years. Andy has worked in almost every aspect of the business from gritty adventure stories in the UK to album covers for Chinese rock stars in the backstreets of Shanghai.
Booking
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Details
Dates: Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 May 2013
Times: 10am-5pm
Location: The Guardian, 90 York Way, London, N1 9GU
Price:£400
Maximum class size: 15
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