How to Get People to Look at your Photographs

Creativity Live Series 05.

We only spend 1.7 seconds assessing a photograph before we stop or move on.

This creates a huge challenge for image makers, and with 1.4 trillion images being shot each year, it’s harder than ever to get our work seen.

In this 2 hour workshop, we’ll reveal a multitude of techniques used by professional photographers to make their work stand out, so yours do too.  

This workshop is for you if:

• You’d like to improve the visual impact of your work, so more people see it.

What will you learn?

• Master an arsenal of techniques used by professional photographers.
• Move beyond common composition techniques like rule of thirds & frame in a frame, so your work has a visual signature.
• Add eliminate and subtract, colour matching and colour psychology to your toolkit.
• Learn simple lighting tricks using natural light to capture that genuine moment.

The details

• A live online workshop, by Zoom, over 2 hours from 6.30 – 8.30pm (London)
• Consisting of 4 signposted stages, with lots of visual examples (so we show not tell), guided voting (to confirm your understanding), live demonstrations plus ongoing support post-workshop, so you can try the techniques for yourself.
• You won’t need your camera, just a cup of tea, a pad and pen.
• You will be sent a PDF guide after the workshop finishes, which contains valuable information on how get more people to look at your images.

What is Creativity Live?

Creativity Live is a series of workshops designed for those without a formal education in photography. Heavily visual, with plenty of examples, we take a show-not-tell approach to teaching, guiding you step-by-step through the more creative elements of photography; so you understand how to make your work stand out, see behind the scenes how the best images are made, and build your confidence - and ability - to take your photography forwards.

View the whole series at this link

IMPORTANT

Please look out for the attachment in your confirmation email, it contains the Zoom joining link and passcode. If you don't receive it, please email learning@rps.org  

Jon will need access to your email address to enable him to send you any workshop notes - we will presume that by booking this course you are giving permission unless you contact us to state otherwise. 

Overseas participants - Please check the time of the workshop if you are outside the UK. This link which will help you to calculate the timing of the online workshop: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/custom.html

Tutor profile 

Jon Cunningham, is a professional photographer and founder of award-winning creative education company, Creative Escapes. His work has been published in The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Country Living and more, shot 7 books for Penguin and Dorling Kindersley, taught photography internationally across 16 countries, mentored dozens of photographers from beginner to professional, and is the author of ‘Teach Yourself : Your Complete Photography Course’ (Hodder). 

Quote from happy participant:

"The Creativity Live series has presented me with fresh ideas and new attitudes to photography going forward. This is a course unconstrained by technicalities and rules - more a roadmap for exploration"

Image: © Noah Berger