If you feel that you could be taking better photos with your compact camera, this workshop is for you. It will show you how to get the best from your camera, whatever its make and model. This is a hands-on workshop so you will have the opportunity to take various photographs, using all the key features of your camera, and review your images.
You'll also learn the basics of good composition which will help you to transform your photographs from 'snaps' into images you're proud of.
This workshop is suitable for compact cameras with Scene Modes (e.g. Landscape, Portrait, Macro etc.) and no facility to set Aperture.
Compact and 'bridge' cameras with an Aperture (A or AV) setting on the mode dial (see right), are included in our Explore Your Digital SLR Part 1 workshop, as your camera shares most of the features of an SLR.
| Region | Day | Date | Venue | Cost £ | Places | Reserve Your Place |
|---|
| Devon & Cornwall |
Mon |
20 September 2010 |
Knightshayes Court, Devon
SLR cameras also included in this workshop. |
60.00 |
2 |
|
| East Anglia |
Sat |
4 September 2010 |
Hylands House, Chelmsford
|
65.00 |
>3 |
|
| East Anglia |
Mon |
23 October 2010 |
Ickworth House, Suffolk
|
65.00 |
>3 |
|
| East of England |
Sun |
12 September 2010 |
Burghley House, S Lincs.
Run alongside SLR1 workshop |
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| East of England |
Sat |
25 September 2010 |
Burghley House, S Lincs.
Run alongside SLR1 workshop |
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| East of England |
Sun |
3 October 2010 |
The Maltings, Ely
Run alongside SLR1 workshop |
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| East of England |
Fri |
8 October 2010 |
Peckover House, Cambs.
Run alongside SLR1 workshop |
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| East of England |
Fri |
22 October 2010 |
Wicken Fen, Cambs.
Run alongside SLR1 workshop |
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| East of England |
Sat |
23 October 2010 |
Anglesey Abbey, Cambs.
Run alongside SLR1 workshop |
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| East of England |
Fri |
29 October 2010 |
Burghley House, S Lincs.
Run alongside SLR1 workshop |
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| East of England |
Sat |
6 November 2010 |
Rutland Water, Leicestershire
Run alongside SLR1 workshop |
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| East of England |
Sun |
14 November 2010 |
Peckover House, Cambs.
Run alongside SLR1 workshop |
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| East of England |
Sun |
28 November 2010 |
Burghley House, S Lincs.
Run alongside SLR1 workshop |
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| East of England |
Sun |
28 November 2010 |
Burghley House, S Lincs.
Run alongside SLR1 workshop |
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| East of England |
Fri |
10 December 2010 |
The Maltings, Ely
Run alongside SLR1 workshop |
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| East of England |
Sat |
15 January 2011 |
Rutland Water, Leicestershire
Run alongside SLR1 workshop |
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| East of England |
Sat |
26 February 2011 |
Rutland Water, Leicestershire
Run alongside SLR1 workshop |
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| London & South East |
Sat |
11 September 2010 |
Central London
Compacts ONLY! Limited to 6....The Thames, Millennium Bridge & St Paul's Cathedral, Training Suite 202 Blackfriars Road, Southwark, SE1 8NJ. |
85.00 |
2 |
|
| London & South East |
Sat |
6 November 2010 |
Central London
Compacts ONLY! Limited to 6....The Thames, Millennium Bridge & St Paul's Cathedral, Training Suite 202 Blackfriars Road, Southwark, SE1 8NJ. |
85.00 |
>3 |
|
| North and Mid Wales |
Sat |
4 September 2010 |
Erddig, N Wales
|
60.00 |
FULL |
|
| North and Mid Wales |
Sat |
23 October 2010 |
Coed y Brenin, Gwynedd
|
55.00 |
3 |
|
| North East |
Sun |
12 September 2010 |
Ormesby Hall, Middlesbrough
Run alongside SLR part 1 |
65.00 |
FULL |
|
| North East |
Sun |
18 September 2010 |
Beamish Museum, Co. Durham
|
70.00 |
2 |
|
| North East |
Sun |
10 October 2010 |
Gibside, Newcastle upon Tyne
Run alongside SLR part 1 |
65.00 |
>3 |
|
| North East |
Sun |
31 October 2010 |
Ormesby Hall, Middlesbrough
Run alongside SLR Part 1 |
65.00 |
>3 |
|
| North East |
Sun |
14 November 2010 |
Jesmond Dene House, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
|
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| North East |
Sun |
28 November 2010 |
Gibside, Newcastle upon Tyne
Run alongside SLR part 1 |
65.00 |
>3 |
|
| North Midlands |
Sat |
16 October 2010 |
Etruria Industrial Museum, Stoke
This is a combined Compact and DSLR workshop. |
65.00 |
2 |
|
| North Midlands |
Sat |
20 November 2010 |
Cromford Mill, Matlock
This is a combined Compact and DSLR workshop. |
70.00 |
2 |
|
| North West |
Sat |
4 September 2010 |
Tatton Park, Cheshire
|
70.00 |
FULL |
|
| North West |
Sat |
11 September 2010 |
Lake District Visitor Centre
This is a combined Compact and DSLR workshop. |
70.00 |
1 |
|
| South |
Sat |
23 October 2010 |
Lacock Abbey, Wilts.
SLR cameras also included in this workshop. |
70.00 |
3 |
|
| South |
Sun |
24 October 2010 |
Winchester City Mill
SLR cameras also included in this workshop. |
70.00 |
3 |
|
| South |
Sun |
7 November 2010 |
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
SLR cameras also included in this workshop. |
70.00 |
1 |
|
| South |
Sun |
21 November 2010 |
Dyrham Park, Glos.
|
70.00 |
3 |
|
| West Midlands & Cotswolds |
Sun |
12 September 2010 |
Harcourt Aboretum, Oxford
Learn how to shoot professional style images with your compact camera |
65.00 |
FULL |
|
| West Midlands & Cotswolds |
Sun |
19 September 2010 |
Central Birmingham
Learn how to shoot professional style images with your compact camera, run with DSLR P1 |
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| West Midlands & Cotswolds |
Sat |
25 September 2010 |
Brockhampton Estate, Herefordshire
Learn how to shoot professional style images with your compact camera, run with DSLR P1 |
65.00 |
>3 |
|
| West Midlands & Cotswolds |
Sat |
9 October 2010 |
Packwood House, Solihull
Learn how to shoot professional style images with your compact camera, run with DSLR P1 |
65.00 |
>3 |
|
| West Midlands & Cotswolds |
Sat |
16 October 2010 |
Snowshill Manor, Glos.
Learn how to shoot professional style images with your compact camera, run with DSLR P1 |
65.00 |
>3 |
|
| West Midlands & Cotswolds |
Sun |
17 October 2010 |
Attingham Park, Shropshire
Learn how to shoot professional style images with your compact camera, run with DSLR P1 |
65.00 |
>3 |
|
| West Midlands & Cotswolds |
Sat |
23 October 2010 |
Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton
LLearn how to shoot professional style images with your compact camera, run with DSLR P1 |
65.00 |
>3 |
|
| West Midlands & Cotswolds |
Sat |
30 October 2010 |
Bewdley & Severn Valley Railway
Learn how to shoot professional style images with your compact camera, run with DSLR P1 |
65.00 |
>3 |
|
| West Midlands & Cotswolds |
Sun |
7 November 2010 |
Central Birmingham
Learn how to shoot professional style images with your compact camera, run with DSLR P1 |
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| West Midlands & Cotswolds |
Sat |
13 November 2010 |
Attingham Park, Shropshire
How to shoot professional style images with your compact camera |
65.00 |
>3 |
|
| West Midlands & Cotswolds |
Sat |
20 November 2010 |
Packwood House, Solihull
Learn how to shoot professional style images with your compact camera, run with DSLR P1 |
65.00 |
>3 |
|
| Yorkshire |
Sun |
5 September 2010 |
Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal, N Yorks.
|
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| Yorkshire |
Sun |
12 September 2010 |
Robin Hood's Bay, E Yorks
|
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| Yorkshire |
Sat |
18 September 2010 |
Longshaw Estate, Peak District
|
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| Yorkshire |
Sun |
19 September 2010 |
Nostell Priory, Yorks.
|
70.00 |
FULL |
|
| Yorkshire |
Sun |
3 October 2010 |
Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal, N Yorks.
|
70.00 |
>3 |
|
| Yorkshire |
Sun |
7 November 2010 |
Nostell Priory, Yorks.
|
70.00 |
2 |
|
| Yorkshire |
Sun |
14 November 2010 |
Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal, N Yorks.
|
70.00 |
>3 |
|
Just to say that we enjoyed the ‘Get more from your compact camera’ workshop at Clumber Park on 14/9 /08. We had a fair way to come but it was well worth it, as we found it a very useful and practical day. You will see us back for another day, we’re sure.
Once again thank you very much for a wonderful day at Hardwick Hall on Thursday. I thoroughly enjoyed the course and meeting the other people there on the day. I certainly found the presentation and content to be just what I needed as having spent many days (and nights!) reading the manual for my new bridge camera, I think I had somewhat confused myself on which settings etc I should be initially concentrating on, and the course certainly sorted out that for me. I am now trying to concentrate more on getting those settings to become second nature and understanding how to use them to better effect, as well as continuing to think about composition. I am now looking at which course to do next time.
This workshop was really helpful in taking me from basic Auto mode pictures to taking limited control of the options within the camera settings - even to discovering the menu settings! To be told that I can set my camera to Aperture priority and develop the same picture at slightly different f-settings was also an advantage. Practical shots in a beautiful setting was a bonus.
Just letting you know how much Jenny and I enjoyed the course yesterday. I spent the rest of yesterday evening reading my manual thoroughly and taking photos in my garden. I'm amazed how many incorrect assumptions I had made about my camera. I now feel in control of my camera and by looking at photos on my PC as soon as I took them I was able to see the difference made by changing the settings. I will also know what to look for when I make my next camera purchase - which I'm sure I will do soon as I feel really excited about moving on to thinking about composition.
I just wanted to say a tremendous thank you for the course I recently attended at Calke Abbey, "EXPLORE THE FEATURES OF YOUR DIGITAL CAMERA". It was a great day and I really enjoyed meeting the group of people that were there on the day. Unfortunately, it was that good, I went out and purchased a Canon Digital SLR camera!
Compact Cameras with Aperture Priority
