School days.

Well yesterday was the day that we held our first "Introduction to Wedding Photography" training course. We hired out the facilities at Crondon Park Golf Course in Essex and we had four students in our initial `intake` and we had a great day! In the morning we talked about the wedding day as it happens, the do and don'ts, how to prepare and be ready, essential equipment and we also took some questions relating to the business aspects of wedding photography (although the business side is another course we are planning). After a lovely hot buffet lunch we introduced a couple of models for the practical aspects of the course - covering areas such as posing, direction, communication and looking for and utilising intersting areas for the bride & groom portraits.

We also used the Function Suite area to discuss flash lighting - both on-camera and off-camera - natural lighting and how to add movement to otherwise dull and flat images. I believe everyone went away with lots of information to mull over - I certainly had to learn how to teach as I had never done anything like that before, but its certainly something we will be expanding upon in the near future - in fact the next course may well be "An introduction to DSLR photography" and even a couple of nature workshops!

I have attached a few shots that I fired off inbetween advising the students - thanks to our models Emily and Lee for working so hard and being incredibly patient.