You need to be able to understand your camera's basic functions - you should be familiar with shooting in priority modes, change your focus options to suit your subject and understand your camera's metering. A basic knowledge of light and composition will also be beneficial. If in doubt, check our Fundamentals and Advanced placement quiz to check your level more thoroughly. If in doubt, just get in touch. 

No, you don't need to complete the Fundamentals course first. As long as your level of knowledge cover the key areas we teach in that course, you will be fine. We created a placement quiz which should help you decide which level is right for you. Download it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kgxf0cn64b7uq9z/Fundamentals%20or%20Advanced.pdf?dl=0

The course consists of 6 modules, each focusing on a different aspect of photography - 5 core modules and a bonus last module : Idea Bank with advice on follow on practice and development. 

New materials release

Every Monday morning, we will release the module's core materials for you to access and read at your leisure. You don't have to be online when they are released - when you log into your learning space, the materials will be waiting for you. The modules include little 'Try it now' exercises which you can follow to immediately put in practice what we explain in the materials.

Home assignments

On top of that, you get given weekly homework - nothing strenuous, we usually ask for a few photos which illustrate the skills we teach in that module. Usually, our students tend to spend weekdays on the module and the little practice exercises and do the home assignememt at the weekend. We give you personal, detailed video feedback on those homework photos. Our students often say that this feedback is one of the absolute best things about our course.  Please note that we do not provide feedback in our Light Touch version of the course. 

Live webinar

Every week, typically on Wednesday or Thursday evening, we run a live webinar class, during which we cover and expand on all the key elements of that module, we answer your questions, we provide additional explanations and illustrations. These sessions are scheduled in the evening and always recorded, so that even if you couldn't join live, you can always relay them.  Please note that this element os not available to our Light Touch students.

Support group

Finally, there is also our private group - for the students of your course only. The group ia a great opportunity to share your images, ask questions, chat to your fellow course mates. It's also where we post any additional materials and info and / or run little additional video demonstrations when needed. 

Each course is run by an experienced instructor - professional children's photographer who is your main point of contact to answer your questions, provide your feedback and talk to in your FB group and in webinars. They're there to help and nurture and cheer you on in your photo journey. 

No. You DO need A camera. And 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 though, but 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 rental if you need. 

If you're relatively familiar with most of the technical topics we cover in Level 2, you will be absolutely fine. We packed A LOT into Level 1 course. Frankly, we expect that some of the things will take longer to sink in so if you're not able to recall from memory everything we covered, you're absolutely fine. It'll come. Actually building up on them in Level 2 often helps to get it all established.