Category: Archived Courses

  • Digital DSLR Photography – Stage 2 (Cooper School) – Jan 2019

    A 10 week digital photograph course following on from Stage 1; enabling you to further understand your DSLR or bridge camera, looking at additional features and equipment to enhance your photography skills, the use of lighting techniques, e.g. painting with light, evaluation of photos, genres such as night, still life, documentary and landscape. Experiment with your camera’s functions, such as on camera flash and manual mode; and to build your skills and confidence. Discover the best lenses and filters for individual situations. Practice and develop your confidence in using the camera in manual mode. Explore the rules of composition and how they relate to different genres.

    Time: 19:00 – 21:00 | Days: Tuesday | Date: 22 Jan 2019 – 02 Apr 2019 (except 19 Feb 2019) | Location: Cooper School Bicester

    More information: BOOK HERE

  • Developing our Personal Documentary Projects – Oct 2018


    A practical workshop exploring ways of taking our personal projects to the next level

    The difference between a successful project and making no progress is usually down to motivation, clarity, and networking. This practical workshop provides an opportunity to explore your own documentary photography ambitions, to benefit from the experience and interest of peers, to build a network of like-minded supporters, and to find the confidence to raise your game in the field.

    Whether you have one short-term project, a series of many, a major long-term one, or too many ideas and not enough time, we will help each other to clarify their scope, fill in the gaps in our plans, identify the hurdles to realising them, then plan to address them, share our enthusiasm, and develop a team of willing supporters and ambassadors to keep us on track.

    If you want to have more impact, reach wider audiences, realise a long-term ambition, take the next step in your career, bolster your reputation, or simply stop putting off something that you have meant to do for ages, then this small-group workshop could be ideal for you.

    The session will be facilitated by Graham Wilson, a Tutor in Psychology at the University of Oxford, course leader in coaching, a photographer himself, and sub-editor of the Decisive Moment.

    The workshop will take place in the Family Room of the Victoria Arms, Old Marston, Oxford.  Drinks and refreshments will be available from the bar throughout.  The participants will have dinner together at the end of the workshop to provide more time for personal networking, and informal conversation.

    Date: Thursday 11th October 2018
    Time: 2:30pm to 8:00pm
    Venue: The Victoria Arms, Old Marston, Oxford
    Contact: Graham Wilson

  • Digital DSLR Photography – Stage 1 (Cooper School) – Sept 2018

    This course is for the owners of a DSLR camera or similar that allows users FULL manual control. Designed for complete beginners, though photographers with some experience may find it a useful to refresh their memory on certain techniques, the course aims to get you to a level where you can confidently grasp the fundamentals of DSLR Photography. During the course you will explore the camera’s functions, look at the technical side of photography, and what is needed to create the perfect picture. You will then have the opportunity to explore the more creative side and open your photographer’s eye.

    Time: 19:00 – 21:00 | Days: Tuesday | Date: 25 Sep 2018 – 04 Dec 2018 (except 23 Oct 2018) | Location: Cooper School Bicester

    More details and to book: CLICK HERE

  • The Better Tutors’ Guide 2017

    The Better Tutors’ Guide 2017

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    Images captured during a workshop for the University of Oxford Continuing Education Department Tutors in which they collaboratively wrote a guide for tutors to develop their teaching. The images are to serve as chapter separators.


    It is widely accepted that education is the key to addressing many of the issues facing society throughout the world. Anything that can be done to improve the quality of education at all levels is important.

    The University of Oxford Continuing Education Department is one of the largest extra-mural studies faculties in the country with over 1000 undergraduate level courses and 11000 students each year.

    In May 2017, I was asked to run a workshop for tutors to explore how they might develop their teaching. While it wasn’t a project in the documentary photography sense, these images were taken to illustrate the ‘output’ from the workshop, a short book created in less than 90 minutes; the “Tutors’ Guide to Better Tutoring“.

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