Photography courses in London

Already comfortable with the basics of photography and ready to push your skills further? This course is designed to help you build confidence, deepen your technical understanding and expand your creative approach. With guidance from an experienced professional photographer, you’ll refresh core knowledge, explore more advanced techniques and gain fresh inspiration to develop your photographic voice.

Discover how to capture the bright lights and buzz of London’s West End after dark, conveying the energy of the city. This course will lead you through Piccadilly Circus, the London Eye and Waterloo Bridge and provide feedback on your images in the classroom.

This course is part theory and part practical. You will become an expert in the fine art world of contemporary photography. Learn about the history, concepts and theories behind the art form, and the technology and techniques now influencing it. Develop practical skills to realise your own creative ideas, discuss your photography portfolio with others, and learn about platforms to showcase your work on the commercial fine art market.

Perhaps you have a collection of old prints, negatives or transparencies that you'd love to have digitised or perhaps you shoot film and want to reduce the cost by learning how to scan your film yourself? Learn how to do both using different methods from flatbed/film scanners to a digital camera.

This hands-on immersive course will help you to develop your skills in fashion photography. The course is project driven and will take you from the creation of a basic story board through to a photo shoot. Combining technical instruction with hands-on shooting, you will get to grips with the workflow, tools and planning required to run a successful shoot for yourself. The course also provides advice on getting material published.

Learn the basics of using flash on camera (speedlights) to enhance your images. Experiment creatively indoors and outdoors with different flash techniques, with a professional photographer on hand to guide you throughout.

This practical course introduces photographers to Affinity’s powerful photo editing environment, guiding you through creative adjustments, image refinement and expressive editing skills to bring your vision to life.

Want to give create some professional grade prints? This hands-on course will guide you in printing top-quality inkjet (or giclée) prints as used by fine art photographers. Get to grips with Adobe Photoshop and our top-of-the-range Epson photo printers and experiment with different paper types and inks.

This course is great value as prints of this quality are expensive to have made to this standard.

This is a practical course that will teach you how to photograph people with confidence, sensitivity, and creativity across a range of real-world situations: from the studio portrait to street and documentary photography; or those special moments for the family album. You will learn invaluable skills about light, composition and posing your subject, helping you to produce a beautiful portrait portfolio.

This course is for photographers who want to learn how to gain skills and add drama to their images. Students will learn professional and effective ways to use Photoshop as well as creating their own workflow for the future.

This hands-on, studio-based course is designed for photographers looking to enhance their skills in product and still life photography. You will explore lighting, composition and styling techniques to create visually compelling and professional-quality images.

Learn how to use photographic studio lighting in this hands-on short course. An introduction to using studio flash and continuous lights to enhance your portrait and still life photography.

This upbeat and fun two-session studio course is the perfect Friday night introduction to producing clear, confident headshot photographs using simple backgrounds and lighting setups. Designed for photographers who are already comfortable with their cameras, the course focuses on the relationship between technical control, lighting, and communication with the subject.