Dates: Wed 25th and Thurs 26th April 2012

Price: £495 plus VAT

Venue: The Old Hall Hotel, Buxton, Derbyshire

Tutors: Ryan Browne (Weddings & Business) & Marko Nurminen (Digital Imaging)

Models: Bride & Groom

Here we have a Two Day Wedding, Business and Digital Imaging Course with one of Britain’s Best photographers and one of the UKs top Digital Imaging experts. They have been carefully selected for their knowledge, standing and experience in the wedding photography and portrait photography business. They will give you the BEST information you can get to make your wedding photography business successful. You will also have loads of opportunities to shoot bride & groom in a fantastic location.

We have also chosen one of the most exquisite and charming venues in Derbyshire, The Old Hall Hotel in Buxton; this is the oldest hotel in England, steeped in character and is right next to the beautiful Pavillion Gardens.

BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT AS PLACES ARE LIMITED.

On your one day with Ryan, we will be concentrating on taking you through a wedding from start to finish with a fabulous Bride and Groom so you get a real understanding on how to conduct a wedding and pose bride & groom. Not only that, Ryan will be covering some of the fundamental aspects of marketing your business and getting your business seen in this competitive field. Please also note that Ryan will be bringing a range of his albums and these can be viewed and discussed at breaks and over lunch.
Ryan Browne will be covering:

Business
• How to develop your brand, image and reputation
• Selecting your client base
• Marketing yourself to stand out from the crowd
• How to get things really working for you
• Lots of tips and tricks to improve your performance

Photography
• Creating and capturing natural moments
• How to deal with Group shots
• Using light to create stunning images whether it be natural light with or without reflectors, video lights or speedlites.
• Creative use of your environment and surroundings
• Effective communication channels between you and your client

On your one day with Marko, he will be teaching you how to make life easier for yourself. He will show you simple ways of achieving great results without all the fuss that normally goes on in photography!  Learn how to make things easy for yourself, enjoy your photography and get a life!

Marko will be covering:
• How to make your digital workflow easy so you can spend more time away from your computer!
• Simple Lightroom techniques
• Simple Photoshop techniques
• How to create the looks he gives to his clients

VENUE at The Old Hall Hotel in Buxton, Derbyshire

Reputed to be the oldest hotel in England, one time host to Mary Queen of Scots and dating back to the 16th century, we have chosen the Old Hall Hotel, in Buxton for this  2 Day course.

We have chosen this 'warm and welcome' venue very carefully to give you the best opportunity of taking photos with fantastic backgrounds. The hotel hosts many weddings here throughout the year and we will be using the elite bedrooms in the hotel itself as well as the exquisite and delightful Pavlillion Gardens. These gardens are just a stones throw across the road and commonly used for second location shoots. The Gardens boast sweeping pathways, rivers, picturesque bridges, a majestic bandstand as well as a floral conservatory - all great backdrops for our photography course and we can guarantee that you will have some great images for your portfolio.

All guests can also stay in this hotel and you will be pleased to know that they were awarded an 'England breakfast award'!  This award recognises hotels and B&Bs that offers guests a quality and varied choice of breakfast, alongside a high level of service and hospitality.

We gather together ON OUR WORKSHOPS only the VERY BEST photographers and Digital Imaging experts that Britain has to offer. On this 2 day Wedding, Business and Digital Imaging workshop, you will gain incredible knowledge on all aspects of wedding photography, and importantly what makes a successful business from a failing business. You will also learn the keys to professional, easy and quick editing with Photoshop and Lightroom by one of the UKs best retouchers in the country.

We have thought very carefully about WHO is teaching you, WHAT they will teach you and WHERE they will teach you. We want you to come away from this workshop with pure enthusiasm and the knowledge to get things really working for you too.
We are privileged to have :

* Ryan Browne - a national and international Award winner and one of the most sought after wedding photojournalists. His work captures the passion, the fun and the excitement at a wedding like no other.

* Marko Nurminen – a highly experienced and well known post production trainer who has worked in the very high end of social photography world. He has trained professional photographers and keen amateurs for years and is very well known and respected within the industry.

When you think of Ryan Browne and Wedding Photography, only two words spring to mind; awe inspiring. Few get better than Ryan Browne when it comes to capturing the atmosphere, the love, the passion, the beauty, charm and fun of the day. What I am trying to say, is that he is simply brilliant at capturing every wedding moment.

Ryan is dedicated to documenting events as they unfold, with a relaxed and natural approach, unobtrusively capturing the details of each wedding with sensitivity, intuition and experience blending in seamlessly with the guests.

Because of this natural ability, he is a highly acclaimed international award winning photographer and one of the nations most sought after wedding photographers. He has an amazing ability at delivering to his clients exactly what they really want and this has added massively to his success.

He has won awards internationally and nationally and has won many awards within the Master Photographers Association. In 2010, he won the Award of Excellence for his work, making him one of the leading Wedding Photographers in the UK. He was also won the title of Yorkshire Avant Garde Wedding Photographer and Bridal Portrait photographer of the Year 2009 with the MPA.

In the International AGWPJA competitions this year, he been the highest placed Britain on more than one occasion - WHAT an achievement.
Needless to say, Ryan Browne knows a thing or two on how to get your business off the ground. Within 18 months of starting his business Ryan was covering 60 weddings a year

In 2009 Ryan was named in the top 10 UK winter wedding photographers by Professional Photographers magazine.

Ryan works at the top end of the wedding market and is one of the elite and most successful photographers to have come along in the last 5 years.

On the Britain’s Best Photography course, he is going to share with you all his secrets of how to market yourself cleverly so that you too can stand out from the crowd in this competitive industry.
You rarely get an opportunity to share a day with a professional and highly successful photographer and feed off their knowledge, gain some incredible ideas for your own business and ask those burning questions you have always wanted to know the answers to.

Not only this he will be covering album design because, after all, good presentation of your photos to your client is what it is all about

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Marko Nurminen is a freelance post production trainer and provider of a picture editing service using Adobe Lightroom™ and Photoshop™. He has worked for almost nine years for many wedding, portrait and business clients at the very high end of social photography business.

Marko is one of the UK's guru of Digital Imaging using Photoshop and Lightroom. He is known throughout the UK to be one of the finest Digital experts around and has been retouching  the internationally renowned Annabel Williams images for the last 5 years. He taught on the Annabel Williams Roadshow last year (hosted by Britain’s Best Photography) and the feedback about him was phenomenal.

You may have already seen images edited by him on ProPhotoNut.com or in professional photography magazines including Photo Professional Magazine.

In a nutshell, he has been training professional photographers and enthusiastic amateurs for many years and helping them to enhance their images to a greater level and saving them MASSES of time in the process. He can also boast being the picture editor for four books:

Chloe-Jasmine Whichello by Damien Lovegrove (2011)

99 Photo ideas by Annabel Williams (2008)

99 Digital Photo Art Ideas by Annabel Williams (2008)

The Guide to Professional Wedding Photography by Damien Lovegrove (2007)

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This workshop is aimed at photographers (both keen amateur and professional) wanting to expand their creative and inspirational wedding photography and push their photography boundaries to the next level. It is aimed at those who feel they need to branch out and learn how highly successful photographers make it in this industry. It is also aimed at those wishing to improve their portfolios, websites or blogs as we can guarantee that you will come away with stunning images.

To get the most out of this 2 day Wedding, Business and Digital Imaging course, you need to know how to use your digital SLR and you need to be able to understand the settings and change them quickly. None of the tutors will be delving back to the basics of how to use your camera and the fundamentals of photography.

OTHER DETAIL

Timings: On the first day, we aim to register and have morning coffee from 9 to 9.15am. On subsequent days, the start time will be 9.15am. There will be a refreshment break in the mornings and the afternoon. A buffet lunch will be served at approx 1 pm. We aim to finish most days at approx 5pm.

Details: All confirmation details will be sent to you when you book.

What To Bring: Bring along your digital SLR camera and lenses, tripod, spare battery (please ensure that your battery is fully charged before arriving), warm clothing, comfortable shoes, rainproofs. If hot and sunny, remember to bring your sunhat and sun cream.

Accommodation: The place where you are welcome to stay and generally has plenty of rooms is the Old Hall Hotel itself, a beautiful and comfortable place to stay (tutors are also staying here). You can stay as many nights as you wish but you need to book and reserve. The price per night is approx £70 and includes Bed and Breakfast. Evening meals are also served here. All their details will be sent to you when you book the course as well as all directions with your Booking Details. Other nearby hotel options will also be sent to give you a choice but we do recommend that you stay at the Old Hall Hotel.

WHAT YOU WILL COME AWAY WITH

Fresh and inspirational ideas to move your photography up to level where your work starts to stand out from the crowd; after all you are being taught by top pros in the industry who simply make an excellent living out of their photography.

You will also come away with a whole selection of great wedding and family portrait images that you can use for your portfolio, website, blog or whatever.

Make sure you do not miss our 2 day Wedding, Business & Digital Imaging workshop where we have thought very carefully about WHO is teaching you, WHERE we are located and WHAT we are photographing. We know you will come away brimming with knowledge and enthusiasm:

THE BEST TUTORS: One of Britain’s Best Photographers and One of Britain’s Best Digital Imaging Experts; Ryan Browne & Marko Nurminen.

You will be taught all the tricks of capturing great weddings as well how to capture those leads and market yourself in this competitive field AS WELL AS all the essential Digital Imaging skills taught by Britain’s finest post editing experts.

A FANTASTIC VENUE: The Old Hall Hotel, Buxton, Derbyshire (reputed to be the oldest hotel in England)

AT BRIDE AND GROOM FOR YOU TO  PHOTOGRAPH

Teas/Coffee/Refreshments on arrival, morning and afternoon.

Buffet lunches.

All this for just £495 plus VAT (inclusive of everything mentioned above)