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BESPOKE 1-2-1 PHOTOGRAPHY COACHING

For intermediate and advanced photographers

Six one-hour sessions, planned around your photography and your goals

You can already shoot in manual and your work is technically solid. What you need now is direction.

Maybe there's a genre of photography you haven't fully committed to, a personal project that's stalled, or a style that still feels borrowed rather than your own. Maybe it's confidence in front of a client, or knowing what to charge.

Whatever it is, most intermediate photographers hit the same wall: the technical stuff stops being the problem, and the harder questions start.

Together we work on whatever will move your photography forward, in an order that makes sense for you.

Start with a free 15-minute chat

A relaxed conversation about what you want to achieve and whether this is the right fit. No commitment. The full course is six one-hour sessions for £420 (£70 an hour), at my South Bristol studio or online.

How the sessions work

Paid upfront and used within a year. Sessions can be weekly, fortnightly, monthly, or all six hours in one day at my studio, with lunch included.

Not sure you need six sessions?

Try a Power Hour first.

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Where we could focus

These are starting points, not a fixed syllabus.

We’ll shape each session around what’s useful to you.

  • Advanced camera control

  • Lighting in depth

  • Portraiture, fashion and product photography, plus other genres

  • Composition and how to see a shot before you take it

  • The history of photography, so your influences are deliberate

  • A personal project, set at the start and, ideally, finished by the end

  • In-depth Photoshop, taught by an Adobe Certified Expert

  • Colour grading and tone

  • Creative black and white

  • Your style: a consistent body of work that looks like yours

  • Critique: honest feedback on what’s holding your work back

  • Going pro: working with clients and briefs

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Who you’ll learn with

I've been teaching and mentoring photographers for over 15 years, including as a Senior Lecturer at the University of South Wales. I hold a PGCE Level 7 and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

That means you get structured, specific feedback from someone who genuinely knows how to teach, not just someone with opinions about your work.

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Listen to my podcast episode on building a portfolio, on The Commercial Photographer.

FAQs

  • You should be shooting comfortably in manual. If you’re not there yet, start with One-to-One for beginners.

  • Yes. If you want all six sessions on lighting, or on one project, we’ll build the course around that.

  • Yes. In fact I encourage it. We set it at the start and, ideally, finish it by the end, with each session moving it forward.

  • Yes. All six hours in one day at my studio, with lunch included.

  • Yes. Sessions can be online, in the studio, or a mix of both.

  • No, you can use my studio kit, or bring your own if you have it. I do recommend buying a light so you can practise between sessions, and I’ll help you choose one that suits your work and budget.

  • All of them. I’ve worked with every major brand, and if your camera has a setting I haven’t met, the manual is never far away.

  • It’s recommended, but not essential. We can work around whatever software you have.

  • Either. I teach both, so use whichever you already have.

  • Yes. Tethering is how I work in the studio, so we can set it up with your camera and laptop.