Photolearn is part of Commercial Photography.
Our studio covers a wide range of photography, mainly for media advertising, brochure, and website use. We also have another business, People Pics, which deals mainly with wedding and model photography. The businesses are run by Garry Edwards

A short bio

A burning desire to become a professional photographer, back in the days when higher education was difficult for working class lads like me...

O levels, A levels and then a degree course. Then a 'job' as a trainee, then as 2nd assistant, then 1st assistant - all necessary back then before I could call myself a professional photographer.

Then loads of different jobs in various types of photography, working with and for some of the top London photographers.

Then self-employment, and an even wider range of photography. In fact I've done just about every kind of photography except photojournalism, and it's taken me to loads of places I can't even pronounce (and I'm not talking about Wales...)

And now, not too far off retirement, I have a bit of time to pass my knowledge and experience on to you.

These training courses are a labour of love. They have developed almost by accident - I run one-2-one courses on studio photography in our Yorkshire studios, and I used to provide my students with Course Notes for their further support. These Notes became the basis for the very comprehensive training courses listed here. They have been completely re-written and expanded to cover the subjects fully, and to completely overcome the difficulty of learning anything worthwhile without going through the learning process that I had to follow myself. And the latest improvement to my service is a set of videos on some of our tutorial subjects - videos are the ideal way to learn, because you just can't beat actually seeing how it's done!

In addition to the paid work, I contribute occasional articles to www.photographers.co.uk and I also run the photographers.co.uk forum. I also set aside a little time to local college photography courses - I feel that it's good to share specialised knowledge with other people.

Training Courses
There are some people believe that training in photography is irrelevant and that skills can be picked up by experience alone. Even if that's true of outdoor photography it certainly doesn't work in the studio and our one-day private courses, priced at only £470 including VAT, easily pay for themselves just with the money saved by not buying the wrong kind of equipment. Please click here for more info.

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