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..... delivers one to one bespoke training, preferably Midlands area?

Deciding whether to expand from doing indoor events into weddings and maybe natural light (outdoor ) portraits.

Problem is, the tog who works for me at events was a professional wedding tog some 10-12 years ago, college trained and used medium format and later 35mm doing weddings for long established independant photography shop. He then basically stopped taking photos for 10 years.

The first time he used a DSLR was about 12 months ago when I roped him in to do the events.

There is quite a learning curve between indoor events photography and a wedding using and mixing different lighting.

Ideally looking for one day bespoke training, I am sure he will get up to speed very quickly, want to cover as many lighting scenarios as possible including on and off camera flash and using reflectors etc.

Would be interested in recommendations for trainers and from those that made the move from film to digital, maybe some suggestions on what other areas would be useful for him to have training on.

We will be using Canon 5D Mk11`s but don`t think there is any need for the training to be brand specific, or am i wrong?

Thanks in advance.
 
Thank goodness I'm in the godless north somewhere above zummerzet :lol: :lol: :lol: We're actually near to Liverpool, 5 minutes from the M57 in an area called Knowsley (if you've ever heard of Knowsley Safari Park, I'm on the opposite side of the Knowsley Hall Park to the Safari Park)

Yep, I do one to one sessions and just about to let everyone know about our brand new 12 month "Keep it Real" programme of mentoring and support from both myself and Rob, the other half, who is an ACE guy (that's what he calls himself anyway :lol:) Rob is an Adobe Credited Expert in Lightroom, and is hot on workflow and studio health checks.

The Keep it Real programme (working title at the mo, but quite liking it!) will look at your specific needs and will include a mix of face to face sessions, phone/skype calls and 'Go to Meeting' stuff looking at your images on your own screen.

There will be a limit of 10 people per year doing the Keep it Real programme, but you can start at one of 4 start points in the year. And there will be 3 group sessions per year too, one towards the start, one in the middle and one at the end. We already know the topic of the middle session will be studio lighting and flash photography delivered by an expert in this field, Martyn Pearson, who teaches people in this slightly further north of me. Other experts will be brought in at appropriate times, dependent on your specific needs, and those on the Keeping it Real programme will get discounts on our other workshops held throughout the year at Dovecote Training. By the way, the price for Keeping it Real will be considerably lower than other programmes of this style - we're just finalising this but it looks like it will be no more than £3,000 for a year of one to one training and support (12 x 1 day sessions in total, plus 12 x 2 hour skype/GoToMeeting conversations including critique of images and 3 group sessions and 25% off all other courses and workshops) which I think you'll agree is good value for money.

We're planning an open day for those that can make it to be held in May, although a handful of people will already have started by then, where we'll tell you all about what you can learn and what you'll get from Keeping it Real. But don't worry, you'll not miss the date, because I'll be paying for an advert on TP, plus advertising in a few of the photography magazines to let you all know when it will happen. And I'm looking at doing a podcast for those that can't make the open day.

Anyway, hope that helps you. Just to keep it fair, so that you're aware of the options, others that do this kind of thing are Jeff Turnbull, Damian Lovegrove and Annabel Williams (CPT). Oh, and by the way, I made the move from film to digital and I've made the career change leap as well, so I'm very much about how to keep it real setting up in photography in this day and age, not 20 or 30 years ago, and can share what current things help you to succeed or waste money!
 
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