An Introduction to PR Photography

Course review:

Great photographs can do wonders for our PR effort, not to mention taking newsletters, websites and publicity to new levels.Digital cameras have made it easier than ever before for anyone to take pictures but are the results stunning shots that the press are using ..... or run-of-the-mill snaps that are being ignored? News and PR photography is a special discipline.

Through friendly and supportive workshops and tutorials, this course covers the professional techniques that produce outstanding photographs

- images that newspapers and magazines will find irresistible and that will grace the pages of your publications and websites.

The key aims of the day are to develop good camera handling skills and a journalistic photographic eye, to help achieve technically excellent photographs that are worth using.

The course will also develop confidence in planning photo shoots and in using the professional tricks of the trade that get the best out of the people we’re photographing.

Key training areas:

- Understanding and setting up your camera to get professional results

- The key things that have just got to be right

- and how to get them right

- Spotting potential problems

- and dealing with them

- What makes great news photographs?

- Photographing people

- Photographing events

- Workshops and tuition

- Professional tricks of the trade

- Future development