We are a small company dedicated to family photography education. We are based in the UK, but operate globally delivering online courses and tutorials. We have been around for a while! - since 2010 - originally as in-person courses, having fully transitioned to online classes a few years ago and in that time we have helped literally thousands of parents learn how to use their cameras better and how to take better photos of their kids. Many of our students moved on to working as full time photographers, in various genres - not just family photography. Many, many others simply use their skills to record their family's milestones. 

All our courses are available under our Photoparents membership. There are currently 14 courses that you can take with us and they cover all aspects of photography learning - from camera know-how, to editing, to working with light, plus others that help you explore auxiliary skills - like black and white photography, video, using your smart phone or your action camera as well as a course for kids. If you sign up for a membership, you get access to all. 

Learning with Photoparents works across three layers, so you can suit your learning style or a need at a particular moment. There are self-paced courses you can dip into and out of whenever you've got a spare twenty minutes, working through them in your own time with no deadline hanging over you. Alongside those are scheduled live courses, run with an instructor in real time, where you get direct feedback on your own photos rather than guessing whether you're doing it right. And underneath both sits the ongoing community — weekly lessons and Camera Club prompts that keep you shooting and getting feedback between courses, so the learning doesn't just stop the moment a course ends.

By signing up for Photoparents membership you get access to our learning and community platform where you will find everything in one place. This includes all our courses available as self-paced, dip-in and put option, scheduled Live-run courses where you go through the courses with an instructor and a cohort and a Photoparents Camera club which includes weekly prompts and tutorials, downloadable resources, interest clubs and more. All under one roof - accessble either via a dedicated app or a browser.

Nope. Life is busy and unpredictable, especially with kids so things like this have to be simple. Our membership can be purchased either as a monthly or annual option and you can cancel at any time before the next billing cycle. You can do it all from your membership account, you can also switch from monthly to annual and vice versa - all in your hands! 

Ah. The question not many people actually ask, but nearly all want to know. Obviously - I don’t know you or your ability BUT I have seen hundreds of students go through our courses  and every single one of them improved. Some improved more than others, some really got the ‘photography bug’ and moved on to start their own photography businesses, some just kept it as their hobby and a way of getting better photos of their kids. Not everyone can become the next Annie Leibovitz but everyone can learn how to use the camera to deliver the kind of results they want (like that blurry background in images or being able to capture your kids on the move - sharp!) and everyone can learn how to master their camera and principles of composition and light which make your photos much stronger. So yes, you will improve, even if you don’t think of yourself as an artist.

For our instructor-led courses you will need A camera but it doesn't need to be anything too fancy. Your camera needs to allow you to make changes to some of the manual settings (going beyond the ‘landscape’. ‘portrait’, ‘fireworks’ modes). You’ll often be able to tell if your camera has those just by looking at it - if it has a wheel with letters M, A, S, P or M, Av, Tv, P on it you’re good to go. Some modern cameras do not have that wheel though, but will still let you change those settings, so just drop us a line with your camera’s make and model and we’ll happily advise. We even have a few cameras for rent if you need. We do not charge for the rental itself, but we do take a security deposit that comes back to you after you've returned it to us in full working order.

If you want to invest in a camera and not sure what to get, we can help with that too! just get in touch and we'll help you find an option that will work for your level and budget. 

100% yes. 

Our free courses and downloadable materials are designed with beginners in mind, and for many of them you can do them with just your phone.

As for our other courses, we recommend starting with the Fundamentals course which will build a foundation of camera and other photography skills on which will launch you into any other photography learning. From that point on you'll be able to grow photgraphically in whatever direction your creative heart takes you.

PLENTY. For anyone who's already familiar with their camera functions and basic composition and light concepts, we have so much more - Advanced Photography, Natural Light Photography, Flash Photography, Photo editing, Video for Parents and more! On top of that our regular weekly tutorials and prompts will make sure your skills continue to grow!