Two weeks ago I spent 9 hours on a landscape photography course around Guernsey. I only decided to do this course 2 days before as I was toying with the idea of just learning to use my camera myself and I did initually think this course was only based for people with SLR’s. Once I spoke to Jean Christophe he said my canon would be perfect for the course so I signed up.
We started the day at 8am at the reseviour, there was 9 people on the course, most of them quite abit older then me, this didnt matter too much as I was meant to be learning how to use my camera not stand around and chat all day. Once we got going Jean-Chistophe told us to pick a spot and try and get 3 elements into the photo, it took me a while to figure out what I wanted to take a photo of, he then came around and told us what he thought of our set up and how we could improve it. We then moved on and this part of the course Jean explained how to use the aperture/exposure on the camera, I found this really useful as although I had looked in the manual I didnt really know how and when to use this function! Then we were shown how to use the manual mode- I thought this was great being shown this at the start of the course, I spent the rest of the day taking photos in this mode.
Suddenly the morning had gone and it was time for lunch, some time to speak to the others on the course and here their photography experience.. Jean Christophe is a travel photographer and does alot of freelance work for the rough guide books, I asked him what were the other courses he had planned for the future, and he has one which is a 6 month course where you are given a project and if your photos are good enough they are displayed at the gallery www.thegallery.gg which sounds really good but I dont think I will be good enough for this yet!
After lunch we went to vazon and took some photos of the groynes, and then onto Pleinmont where we took some photos of the hanois lighthouse.
Whilst on the course we learnt about composition/shutter priority and the basics of good photography skills.
This was a tireing but enjoyable day and I would happily do one of his course again. Jean-Christophe has invited us to the gallery on Monday to look through our photos and give us some more tips.
To view my photos you can see them on the photo page.
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