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.

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.

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 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.

Retouching for fashion and beauty photography.

This course will empower you with the skill set to achieve a retouched image at a commercial editorial level.

In this 3-session practical workshop, you will build your confidence to produce beautiful retouching focussing on skin and hair, colour grading and preparing your image both for print and web using Lightroom and Photoshop.

Add the finish that takes your image to a different level.

Shape, form, pattern and texture take on added significance in black-and-white photography. Without colour to guide the eye, contrast, lighting, and composition take on even more importance. Discover these elements and the basic rules of black and white photography.

Learn how pinhole photography works, try out different ways of making a camera. Discover exciting experimental ways of producing photographic images with the camera you’ve built.

Shoot a roll of black and white film and develop it in traditional chemicals, learning two ways to view the images on your film (analogue and digital). Learn the process at City Lit so that you can set yourself up for doing it confidently at home.

What is panoramic photography? Have you ever marvelled at a seamless panoramic photograph, image or online virtual tour?

Learn how to do it yourself on this short practical introduction to photographing professional-level 360° by 180° panoramic images.

Get to grips with the whole process of shooting and stitching, from single row to multi-row panoramas for print - and web-viewable virtual tours using Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and PTGui.

This course focuses on preparing photographers to deliver a complete and professional wedding photography service. It explores traditional formal photography, lightly directed natural imagery, and documentary-style reportage, while also addressing professional conduct, legal responsibilities, and client management within the wedding industry.

Exhibiting your photography will support you in developing new ways and methods in exhibition techniques. Working with a physical gallery space as a creative brief, you will have the opportunity to propose new solutions and ways of engaging an audience in photographic displays. Discuss and learn the history of photography exhibitions with key references and contemporary photographers. Get expert guidance to every aspect of exhibiting, from how to approach galleries to budgeting, hanging and marketing - giving you real confidence to stage your own show.