pHOTOGRAPHY COURSES IN THE SOUTH, DEVON & CORNWALL

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Workshop Dates, Venues & Prices in the South >>

Workshop Dates, Venues & Prices in Devon & Cornwall >>

Tutor: Dominic Falcone

Dominic’s interest in photography spans over 20 years, over that time he has enjoyed a career in both photography and in design and sales.
He enjoys working with people and for many years operated a portrait photography business based in Brighton East Sussex. Whether it’s developing a relationship and rapport with his subjects to capture unique and natural portraits or interacting with students in order to share knowledge and information about photography, Dominic’s style is one which puts people at ease and results in a satisfying and beneficial photographic experience.

Tutor:Peter Hitchman

Peter is an experienced teacher having spent the last thirty five years teaching science in several Bristol schools. During all of this time he has developed his interest in photography and has moved from film to digital in order to keep abreast of his two sons who are also keen photographers. He has decided to move away from the school classroom and to use his teaching skills and knowledge of photography to run Going digital courses in the beautiful locations of the companies southern region.
As a biologist he has a keen interest in Natural History and so many of his photographs reflect this with flowers and animals featuring heavily alongside natural landscapes.
If you wish, you may view some of Peter’s work at www.hitchmanphotos.com

Tutor:Sid Smallman

Sid Smallman has been a keen amateur photographer for most of his adult life enjoying successful exhibitions and sales of his work through local galleries, also, he has been awarded his Licentiateship of the Royal Photographic Society and now has his goal firmly set on achieving his Associateship.

Having worked for twenty years in the IT industry in a technical support role he has an extensive technical background for computing issues this, together with his past teaching experience as a CertEd qualified tutor, enable him to help his students to understand key principles and to put these into practice effectively. His passion for photography and his enthusiasm to help others to develop their skills is quickly self-evident and is appreciated by all who attend his workshops.
To view some of Sid's work, please go to
www.sidspix.co.uk.

Venues

South

Bath City, Avon

Dyrham Park, Glos

Lacock, Wilts

Kingston Lacy, Dorset

Portsmouth, Hants

Winchester, Hants

Windsor, Berks

South-West

Arlington Court, Devon

Cotehele, Cornwall

Knightshayes, Devon

Lanhydrock, Cornwall

Cotehele House

Regional News

One-to-one Training

Our one-to-one days usually run from 10am to 4pm. Our charges are below:

Weekdays - from £275 plus travelling and any other expenses, e.g. room hire if required

Saturdays, Sundays & Bank Holidays- from £375 plus travelling and any other expenses, e.g. room hire if required

A second person is welcome, free of charge

Group rates on request.

TERMS & CONDITIONS
We ask for a £50 deposit (non-refundable) payable on booking your one-to-one training, with the balance to be paid in full at least 7 days before the training day.

Loan Cameras

You can borrow a canon SLR for our workshops and one to one training in the south and southwest regions. Please contact us to confirm availability by sending an email at south@goingdigital.co.uk

Cancellation policy for the Going Digital South & Southwest regions

If you notify us in advance that you wish to cancel/or transfer your course to another date, in accordance with the booking Terms and Conditions that you have agreed to, we will immediately make your places re-available on the website. If your booking has been re-sold by the day of the course we will notify you that a transfer/or refund (subject to a £5 administration fee is available). If your place has not re-sold no refund, or transfer will be possible. For this reason we strongly recommend you consider purchasing insurance.

Customer Feedback

Dear Dominic

Just a short email to thank you for an excellent course last Friday at Lacock. I've learnt more in those 6 hours, about my camera and it's functions, than in the 18 months since I bought it. Hope to see you in Winchester on 1 August for Part 2, but I am having a bit of difficulty juggling my dates.

Best Regards
Gareth Williams

Hi Dominic,

I just wanted to thank you for a brilliant day at the workshop in Portsmouth today. I learnt so much and it was great to be able to practice in such an interesting setting. I'm downloading the photos and will review all the settings and see what worked well and what didn't. Having invested in an SLR camera it's great to be able to be a little creative, rather than just taking "snapshots".

I've already ordered Tamron 28-300 lens (thanks for the tip) and have booked a place on the 27th June Winchester course. By then, especially with the new lens, I should have had a chance to practice some of the things I learnt today and will be ready for the next steps!

Thanks again and look forward to seeing you in June

Regards
Shirley

Hi Dominic

This is ideal, thank you.

We both found the day very informative and I am sure it will have assisted James considerably with the skills improvement he is looking to achieve for his Duke of Edinburgh award.

Best regards
Ian

Dom

Just a quick message to say how useful the Digital SLR Part 1 Workshop
was (Lanhydrock 10/10/09).

I didn't do too well at the time (mainly shutter speeds way too slow)
- too much information to take in as I had only just got the camera
and was still finding my way around it. But good course notes and
explanation, and I have subsequently gone through these and worked
through your exercise and experimented with exposure, Aperture & ISO,
and am now getting much more consistent results.
I have also got an EXIF viewer, which I am finding quite useful for
analysing & selecting my photos.

The main thing is that I have learned a tremendous amount from the
day, and am now much more confident about getting reasonable results,
and not just pointing & shooting in Auto mode.

I am attaching 3 photos which I am reasonably please with.

I am hoping to get along to a Digital SLR Part 2 Workshop (Laycock
Abbey maybe) and hopefully push myself a bit further.

Best wishes, and hope to catch up soon,

Regards
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Richard

Dom,

Thoroughly enjoyed the course today - a great mixture of class work and
practical learning. I'm loving my camera all over again and feel empowered
to take more creative and better quality photos. Thanks for answering all
my questions and helping me with my camera set-up!

Have booked on Part 2 and am really excited about that!

See you on the 23rd.

Thanks once again,
Debbie

Thanks very much for the workshop last Saturday.

It was very informative and enjoyable - I feel much more confident in
using my camera - and no more Auto mode!

All the best

Hello Dominic

Richard and I would like to thank you for such an excellent day in Windsor today. We both learned so much and enjoyed ourselves immensely.

We have just signed up for Part 2 on 12th June. We look forward to seeing you then - fingers crossed for similar weather to today.

Cheerio

Jane

Hi Dominic,

I just wanted to say a big thankyou for all your help yesterday, everything was explained in a way
that was easy to understand, im looking forward to getting out there with my camera, and out of auto!,
im just trying to decide which course 2 i should go on.

Many thanks again

Louise

Dominic,
Thank you for an excellent workshop last Sunday at Cotehele. I thoroughly enjoyed the day and got a lot out of it, and I am certainly more confident about using my camera on AV priority rather than just auto.

Many thanks
Colin

Dominic,

Just wanted to write and say thank-you very much for a most enjoyable and inspiring course! The content was fantastic, I found it to be very hands-on and practical with great feedback when we reviewed the photos at the end of the day. I am now sorting out my dates to make it onto part 2 in the New Year when hopefully I will have become much more practised - at least in the Aperture mode! Thanks to all involved.

Kind regards

Rhona Stewart

Hi all

Thanks for your contributions to a positive workshop especially for the volunteer models and thanks to Dominic for your presentation and encouagement.

I surprised myself being willing to sit in front of the lens for the first time and when you can produce photos of me that I even like, it says a lot about your talent!
There were great shots, ideas and compositions, so good luck with all your photoghaphic aspirations.

Best wishes to you all

David

Hi Dom.

Just a quick note to say how much I enjoyed the Digital SLR course part 1 on Friday 18th February.

As you will have noticed I am not technically minded and was slightly apprehensive
as I hate to appear 'thick'.

You made the whole course intuitive and friendly so that by the end I felt so much more enabled.

I will be out and about so much more now and trying to put your teaching into practice.

I have booked for the SLR part 2 on the 19th March so i look forward to learning much more.

Thank you once again

Jane.

Dear Dominic,

I just wanted to drop you a line to thank you very much for the two courses at Dyrham Park. I thoroughly enjoyed both of them and they certainly helped me get to grips with my new camera. I really enjoyed the mix of theory and practical application too, so that I actually understand the way the camera works, not just what it does.

I will certainly book up another course with you later in the year.

Again, many thanks for a very enjoyable course.

Best wishes, Alex

Hi Dominic

I imagine that you probably don't remember me but I attended your "Photographing Family and Friends" and your "Portrait Photography with Flash" courses in April this year at Lacock Abbey.

I just wanted to let you know that I entered a portrait photography competition at my local photography club which I have recently joined and I won the competition! I am delighted and it wouldn't have happened without your excellent course!

I have also had many compliments from family and friends regarding my photographs.

Thank you again for an excellent two days!

Leslie.

Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed yesterday and how good Sid was as a tutor, very helpful and patient.
I can't wait to get out there and put the skills I learnt yesterday to good use.

Thank you
Jan

Thank you for such a great course. I'm so excited that I may actually be able to use my camera and I truly understand why I don't ever need to (or want to) go on the Auto setting ever again!
Thank you for explaining everything so well and I can't wait to get out there tomorrow and really practise everything I've learnt over the weekend.
Best wishes
Charlie

Hi Peter

I hope you both had a good trip home.

Just wanted to thank you both again for an extremely enjoyable and inspiring couple of days. My husband has been nagging me to do something creative as a hobby for ages and I'm hoping i've now found it! Somehow I think the credit card is about to take a hammering.

Anyway, thanks for the advice and encouragement which was very much appreciated. I hope to catch you on another course in the future, but in the meantime wishing you all the best.

Kind regards

Gail

Oh Dear, me head is still smoking from all the information we learned today @ Margam Country Park, I had a fantastic time and experience - the lessons were very good and much better that I expected. Have now booked Part 2 in Feb and look forward to learning alot more....Tutor was brilliant in making sure you understood, just need to put this into practice now !!!! Thank you

Would definately recommend to others, it's a great starter course with the urge of wanting to know more.

Michelle