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We have a soft spot for Charlecote as photography venue. The fact that it’s so close to the M40 and and Birmingham, while being in the countryside and convenient for Stratford-upon-Avon doesn’t hurt!

These pictures are from Rachel’s DSLR course a few weeks ago – once again showing that you don’t need to take boring pictures even if you know that they have been taken lots of times before.

Picture from photography course at  Charlecote

This river regularly floods and completely submerges the Capability Brown waterfall. There are a couple of waterfalls which make for great long and short exposure pictures.

Picture from photography course at Charlecote

Picture from photography course at Charlecote

Picture from photography course at Charlecote

They even have lambs!

We try to run all our different courses at Charlecote, as well as running some courses for the National Trust. It also benefits from a really nice cafe and extremely friendly staff. Have a look at the upcoming courses here.

Photography Made Simple

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We were asked to help some estate agents in Birmingham photograph their properties better. One of the tricks that we use is to use a little flash in alleyways and archways so that we don’t appear to be looking out of a dark cave.

This picture is from Charlecote house, and uses a little fill flash in the arch. Without that, the picture would be much less natural looking. So weirdly, a little unnatural flash makes the picture look more natural.

Photo from estate agent photography training course

A little fill flash doesn't hurt!

We also worked on the use of fill flash to illuminate the room, while getting the view out of the window. A very useful technique to give more natural looking rooms.

Photography Made Simple

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We were undeterred at Shugborough even though we had to work most of the day with no power. this meant that Phil had to present the course from memory, but thankfully we had the power back in the afternoon and we could look at our pictures.   One of the things that we try to [...]

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We chose warmth as the photography mentoring service theme this month in a naked attempt to save on heating bills. The plan was that looking at warmth pictures all day would keep us warm. It worked! We’ve also been encouraging people to check out our Ask PMS section on the website, which is basically questions [...]

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We don’t run the people photography course as often as we would like. It’s not as popular as our other courses, and the budget doesn’t allow for models etc so we have to use each other. One alternative is to bring your own kids. So at Charlecote Rachel taught the course to some parents who [...]

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Dunham Massey a beautiful National Trust property near Manchester, is a new venue for us but fast becoming one of our favourites. There is an amazing variety of material to photograph from ducks and geese on the lake to deer to the mill race to the trees and flowers and beautiful buildings. Rachel’s most recent [...]


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