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Short Course

Photography and Videography - Beginners

  • Duration

    10 Weeks

  • Cost

    £250

  • Tutor

    Kit Newman

  • When

    Tuesday Evenings

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Learn to confidently use a digital camera for photography and videography. 

Course Overview

Get hands-on with cameras and learn the full creative process from shooting to editing in this practical beginners’ course. 

Whether you’re brand new to using a camera or looking to take your content creation skills to the next level, this course will guide you through every step, from understanding camera settings and mastering composition, to lighting, filming, and editing your own photos and videos using Adobe Lightroom and Premiere Pro.

You’ll explore creative techniques both indoors and outdoors, get to grips with colour grading, and gain valuable insight into building a starter kit and working professionally with clients.

By the end of the course, you’ll have produced your own showreel and portfolio of work — the perfect launchpad for creative or freelance opportunities. With a small group of no more than ten students, you’ll receive plenty of one-to-one guidance in a relaxed, hands-on learning environment.

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About the Tutor

Kit is a Hereford-based photographer, videographer and content creator known for making promotional material for a huge range of businesses, individuals, and bands. Their content experience includes filming and directing the Little Green Room sessions and comedy skits at The Jam Factory, and social media managing and producing for multiple businesses in Herefordshire and beyond.

See more of Kit's work

Term Dates

Term will start on Tuesday 13th January. There will be 10 sessions with a break for half term on 17th February. The final session will be 24th March. 

Term starts on Tuesday 14th April. There will be 10 sessions with a break for half term on 26th May. The final session will be 23rd June. 

I have dabbled in photography before but this course truly unlocked a new world for me and I can't wait to explore more of it. The course leader Kit was spectacular and eager to help in any way he could but also created a comfortable environment to learn and create in.

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FAQs

You may want to bring your own camera and accessories if you'd like to get familiar with the equipment you already own. However, we will have cameras, tripods, mics, SD cards and more that you can borrow for the course sessions. Please note that you will not be able to take these home with you in between lessons. 

You may want to bring a book for taking notes. We sell these at our college shop so you can buy one before your class starts if you want to. 

Courses like these can look great on your CV and are good for professional development. Therefore, we award certificates at the end of the course, provided that you attended enough of the sessions. 

Our short courses are non-credit bearing programmes.

This course is suitable for beginners and people with some prior knowledge in photography and videography who want to improve their skills starting from the basics.

This course will be held at the Digital Skills Centre at our College Road Campus. You will need to arrive at our reception each week to sign in. 

This course will take place over 10 sessions with a break for half term. Please see dates listed above. 

Sessions will start at 6.30pm and will finish at approximately 9pm. You may have to arrive earlier on your first week for registration. 

Unless otherwise stated, our short courses are suitable for anyone over the age of 16. 

We recommend anyone aged 16-17 is accompanied by someone 18+ who is also a paying participant. 

We keep our class sizes small so that you benefit from a lot of contact time with the tutor. There will be a maximum of 10 people on this course.

Yes, there is free parking available on campus.

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