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Join us for exclusive access to Scotney Castle 2 hours before the general public to photograph these historic and beautiful follies. Suitable for all ages, under 18’s require a parent or guardian, and photographic skills.
Explore the historic parkland and woods of Sheffield Park Gardens with your camera. Seamus will help you get the best out of the scenery and guide you through the techniques allowing you to create better pictures.
6 Session coastal workshop, visiting areas as diverse as Beachy Head, Dungeness, Hastings and New Haven
You will finish the course with a portfolio of 15 A3 prints, which is included in the cost of the course.
This workshop is designed for photographers and print makers who are interested in learning how Platinum prints are created. Once you have paid for the course you will be sent a PDF with directions and an outline of what will happen on the day, with any course handouts attached so that you can read them before attending. Prior to the course start date you will be required to send 3 hi-res black & white digital images which we will turn into digital negatives for printing on the day. If you are not comfortable converting images to B&W we can do that for you.
I offer tailored half-day, full-day and multi-day tuition in all aspects of photography, for complete beginners upto seasoned photographers looking to get their mojo back. I teach Lightroom and Photoshop also.
I offer 1-2-1, 1-2-2 and small group courses.
Please do not hesitate to contact me with your requirements.
This workshop is designed for photographers and print makers who are interested in learning how Platinum prints are created. Once you have paid for the course you will be sent a PDF with directions and an outline of what will happen on the day, with any course handouts attached so that you can read them before attending. Prior to the course start date you will be required to send 3 hi-res black & white digital images which we will turn into digital negatives for printing on the day. If you are not comfortable converting images to B&W we can do that for you.
These 5 week Lightroom Classic (LRC) courses are designed to give you a good overall understanding of the main features you will need to master in LRC. We do a lot of demonstrating on your images so you can see real world examples of what LRC can do.
Explore the historic parkland and woods of Sheffield Park Gardens with your camera. Seamus will help you get the best out of the scenery and guide you through the techniques allowing you to create better pictures.
Join us for exclusive access to Scotney Castle 2 hours before the general public to photograph these historic and beautiful follies. Suitable for all ages, under 18’s require a parent or guardian, and photographic skills.
These small group Dahlia workshops are our most popular workshops. This is a natural light workshops where we show you how you can achieve stunning images without the expense of costly studio equipment. Drinks and biscuits will be available through-out the day and lunch is provided. We grow a lot of dahlias so you can photograph them in the garden before cutting them and shooting them indoors
6 Session coastal workshop, visiting areas as diverse as Beachy Head, Dungeness, Hastings and New Haven
You will finish the course with a portfolio of 15 A3 prints, which is included in the cost of the course.
This one day workshop will cover the fundamentals of producing a Cyanotype print and if time allows we will look at the currently in vogue “Wet Cyanotype” process.
We will be looking at the history of the process as it goes the whole way back to the dawn of photography, as part of this we will look at the work of Tonbridge local, Anna Atkins.
This course is designed for anyone who has been using Lightroom Classic CC, referred to as Lightroom from now on, and wants to speed up their workflow and utilise the more advanced features of Lightroom. Please see the before/after sliders on the images at the bottom of the booking page, all of which were edited in Lightroom.
This course is designed for anyone thinking of or is new to using Lightroom Classic CC, referred to as Lightroom from now on. Please use the before/after slider on the images at the bottom of this page, all of which were edited in Lightroom. See bottom of page for further details about the course .
These small group Dahlia workshops are our most popular workshops. This is a natural light workshops where we show you how you can achieve stunning images without the expense of costly studio equipment. Drinks and biscuits will be available through-out the day and lunch is provided. We grow a lot of dahlias so you can photograph them in the garden before cutting them and shooting them indoors
A forerunner of radar, acoustic mirrors were built on the south and northeast coasts of England between about 1916 and the 1930s. The ‘listening ears’ were intended to provide early warning of incoming enemy aeroplanes and airships about to attack coastal towns. With the development of faster aircraft the sound mirrors became less useful, as an aircraft would be within sight by the time it had been located, and radar finally rendered the mirrors obsolete.
These small group Dahlia workshops are our most popular workshops. This is a natural light workshops where we show you how you can achieve stunning images without the expense of costly studio equipment. Drinks and biscuits will be available through-out the day and lunch is provided. We grow a lot of dahlias so you can photograph them in the garden before cutting them and shooting them indoors,
Join acclaimed floral photographer Seamus A Ryan at his home for a one day masterclass.
Additional dates will be announced closer to each flowering season.
Spend the day learning to take photographs in the garden, you will learn how to control light with reflectors, whether macro photography is for you and then we will take some flowers indoors and create beautiful still life images. There is very little extra gear you need for this course, a tripod can be advantageous but not necessary. If you don't have a Macro lens you can use Seamus's camera and macro lens on a tripod just to try it out. To finish off Seamus will show you some basic editing in Lightroom to finish your images and print 2 A3 prints for you to take away. Additional prints can be done on the day or later on and shipped to you.
Most of the following images were created in our garden but others, mainly the exotics and structures are from RHS and private gardens, we wish they were all in our garden.
Lunch is provided, with drinks and nibbles available throughout the day.
If you would like Seamus to come to your garden to teach please contact us.
This course is designed for anyone thinking of or is new to using Lightroom Classic CC, referred to as Lightroom from now on. Please use the before/after slider on the images at the bottom of this page, all of which were edited in Lightroom. See bottom of page for further details about the course .
This one day course is designed to give you an introduction to high speed flash photography.
We will be photographing Ink in Water, Smoke and Water Droplet.
I will be explaining how todays modern flash guns can achieve very high speed photographs.
We will go through what equipment is needed, how relatively cheap it can be and how it works.
Some lightroom tuition will be given showing how to achieve the finished look of these photos, so please bring your laptop if you have one, if you don't we will do the work here and you can take them home on a memory stick.
Please be aware that this is not a Lightroom course and any images taken during the workshop should not be used to enter competitions as some might suggest that it wasn't completely your own work.
There will be a break for lunch but lunch is not provided, there are many places to get food within a 5 minute walk.
This course is run via Kent Adult Education and you will need to sign up via their website on this link
This one day course is designed for photographers wanting to produce a book of their work via the Blurb printing on demand service. It can be as simple as a record of a holiday or family occasion or as detailed as a portfolio/monograph.
All images, unless otherwise attributed, are copyright Seamus A Ryan 2019
