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Pro for a Day Assignments

Ever fancied turning pro or trying to sell your images? This is your chance!

On a Pro For a Day Assignment we'll show you how to shoot like a pro and put together a set of image to illustrate a magazine or newspaper feature, website or book. This skill of shooting a story or portfolio of photographs is something that is key for anyone who wants to catch a picture editor's eye or sell stock images.

This year we're offering a slightly different opportunity on our On the Edge - Extreme Landscapes course. This is an amazing and unique experience to get unusual images with real commercial value and from a very different perspective. This is both an experience and a course, but less in the format of our other Pro for a Day courses.

Our courses offer an innovative and different way to learn how to take images with a view to selling them. They are suitable for photographers but also for writers and journalists who want to take better photographs to use or sell alongside their writing.

On the courses we will teach you how to shoot to brief and how to tell a story with your photographs.

We'll show you how and what the pros shoot to get images which appeal to a picture editor and, under our guidance, you'll shoot an actual event.

On the first day we'll take you through the process of shooting to a brief in a local market town and photograph everything from food to people to local attractions - all key elements of a photo story.

That evening you can choose to join us for dinner where we'll enjoy a meal of tasty local food connected to the assignment. It's a wonderful chance to relax, have fun and talk.

Choose your assignment....

In 2010 we're offering two opportunities in glorious Suffolk:

  • On the Edge - extreme landscapes of the North Sea and Heritage Coast

  • Shooting a travel feature

Both present a great opportunities to shoot some fabulous images. The course also includes a dinner including some of the local produce that will form elements of the events, giving you a taste of the region in a very real sense!

To find out more, click on the relevant button on the left hand section menu.

Sample dinner menu

Starters

Homemade potato & watercress soup with herb croutons

Orford smoked mackeral & smoked prawns served with horse radish creme fraiche

Gressingham confit duck leg, fresh raspberry dressed salad

Blythburgh roasted pork loin, bramley apple sauce & aspall cyder jus

Main

Aldeburgh line caught cod, brown shrimp butter with sun blushed tomato & shallot compote

Saltmarsh lamb chump cooked with wild garlic, rosemary & cherry tomatoes

Summer vegetable quiche served with new potatoes & dressed side salad

Desserts

Suffolk gold and suffolk blue cheeses with homemade chutney, celery & biscuits

Local suffolk meadow ice creams

Tea or coffee

On day two we'll actually shoot as if you've been commission to shoot a feature for a magazine or newspaper.

There is also the option to come back for a the third day when we'll review your images then give you advice and feedback on composition, editing and picture selection.

Pro For A Day

On the Edge - Extreme Landscapes

4th & 5th September
North Sea & Heritage Coast, Suffolk

Travel Assignment

23rd & 24th October
Heritage Coast, Suffolk

Travel Assignment Feedback

25th October
Framlingham, Suffolk

“With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit.

People always ask about cameras but it doesn't matter what camera you have. You can have the most modern camera in the world but if you don't have an eye, the camera is worthless. Young people know more about modern cameras and lighting than I do.

When I started out in photography I didn't own an exposure meter - I couldn't , they didn't exist! I had to guess”

Alfred Eisenstaedt, photographer

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