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We run photography courses for beginner to advanced throughout London and you can click here for a list of ALL our London venues. Our Travel & Street Photo-Walks are not complete beginner photography courses. For complete beginner's, our most popular course is Explore Your Camera - Get Off Auto run nearby on the South Bank and in Regent's Park or in Greenwich.
Going Digital London's Travel & Street Photo-Walks offer you the opportunity to develop your photography on location with feedback and advice from your Tutor, with course notes and handouts. You will learn travel and street photography tips, to develop your manual exposure skills, and travel composition skills, and to gain confidence shooting candid portraits and street scenes. Our courses are limited to 6 so you get plenty of one-to-one time!
Our London Travel & Street Photo-Walks are led by Sara Melhuish, a freelance Swedish street photographer residing in London with a passion for capturing images of day to day life. Sara loves making those ordinary daily moments extraordinary by utilising the light, contrast, shadows and reflections and capturing those candid moments around us that makes life special. Her tip is to never leave the house without your camera as you never know what you will come across. These workshops are suitable for DSLR, bridge and compact system cameras and run from 10-3.30. You can see her work here
We also run evening Light Trails & Night Photography Photo-Walks on the South Bank for DSLR and Compact System Cameras to practice long exposures and light trails (tripod required) from 6.30-9.30 pm.
Please read the descriptions below to find the right walk for you and the camera you will use of the day:
Locations for our Travel & Street Photo-Walks - DSLR, Bridge & Compact System Cameras:
West End to China Town via Soho
Exclusive Street Photography West End Photo-Walk with Sara Melhuish. LIMTED to 6 attendees. Join published and exhibited street photographer, Sara Melhuish on this street photography photo-walk. Sara will lead you along bustling Oxford Street and the iconic Carnaby Street then on towards the back streets of Soho and the vibrant China Town. Finally, time permitting, the group will then move on to the tourist haven of Leicester Square. Throughout the day you will take advantage of the hustle and bustle of the steady stream of pedestrians going about their day. Sara will show you how to work the different areas along the route including how to interpret your environment to set the scene mood for your images. 10am-3:30pm. Joining instructions sent out the week of the walk.
Coal Drops Yard to Camden via Union Canal
Exclusive Street Photography Photo-Walk with Sara Melhuish. LIMITED to just 6 attendees: Join published and exhibited street photographer, Sara Melhuish on this street photography photo-walk. Sara will show you how to work with the light in different areas along the route including how to interpret your environment to set the mood for your images. Starting out by exploring the hustle and bustle of Coal Drops Yard before heading out along the Union Canal, taking in the old gas works, street art and canal boats. Upon arrival in Camden Sara will lead you though the busy and colourful perimeter streets around Camden, up to Chalk Farm and back, finishing outisde the Market. 10am-3:30pm. Joining instructions sent out the week of the walk.
Bricklane & Shoreditch
Exclusive Street Photography Photo-Walk with Sara Melhuish. LIMITED to just 6 attendees: Join published and exhibited street photographer, Sara Melhuish on this street photography photo-walk. Sara will show you how to work with the light in different areas along the route including how to interpret your environment to set the mood for your images.
Starting near Liverpool street for a quick introduction and briefing before walking through the back lanes to Spitalfield Market, skirting Petticoat Lane for some street art and grit. A little time is spent in the market (stall holders are not overly keen on being captured but plenty of light, shadow and windows for reflections) followed by a stroll down Brick Lane to pop in and out of the adjacent streets for street art and funky people.. You will visit Allens Gardens for colourful murals and most likely see some being painted. A quick pitstop for some refreshments before carrying on up the rest of Brick Lane, into Redchurch Street and if time permits popping across to Citizen M hotel. Finally it's off to the Boxpark by Shoreditch High Street station. 10am-3:30pm. Joining instructions sent out the week of the walk.
Locations for our Light Trails & Night Photography Photo-Walks - DSLR's, Mirrowless & Compact System Cameras*:
Twilight by the Thames - an Evening Walk
We will meet at 6.30 pm at the Caffe Nero, Lancaster Place, 2 Lancaster Place, WC2E 7EA. From Waterloo Bridge we will slowly make our way along the South Bank to Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament. The view of our great London city doesn't get any better than an evening on Waterloo Bridge - The London eye lit up, the Houses of Parliament at sunset, the reflections in River Thames, the night life on the South Bank. Learn how to photograph during the golden hour and into the night and practice your low light photography skills to capture London at night. You will need a digital camera with the ability to set both aperture and shutter speed and a tripod (we can loan tripods). This walk runs from 6.30-9.30pm. *Bridge cameras are not recommended for this photo-walk as some techniques will not be possible. However if you would like to speak to us about bringing a Bridge camera please email richard-berry@goingdigital.co.uk and request a call back.
Locations for our Smartphone Photography Workshops - Smartphones only:
If you would like to learn how to take better pictures with your smartphone and understand how to use a variety of different Apps to edit them, this course is ideal for you. What you will learn: what Apps to use, how to compose a great photograph, the creative use of light, how to crop your images for creative effect and make brightness, colour and contrast adjustments, how to use filters to transform your images and add artistic flare, how to easily create amazing photo collages, and finally how to share your images. These 3 hour workshops are led by tutor Richard Berry.
Battersea Park
Meet at Pear Tree Café, Battersea Park, SW11 4NJ. Walks start at 10am and 1:30pm
Borough Market/London Bridge
Meet outside the Pret A Manger on Borough High Street SE1 9SE. Walks start at 10am and 1:30pm
Brick Lane
Meet at Costa Coffee, Units 4 and 5, Bishops Square, London, E1 6AG. Walks start at 10am and 1:30pm
Columbia Road Flower Market
Meet outside The Birdcage at 80 Columbia Road, E2 7QB . Walks start at 9am and 12:30pm
Greenwich
Meet at 10am at Costa Coffee, 44-46 Greenwich Church, SE10 9BL or
Meet at 1:30pm outside the Pavilion Cafe, Blackheath Ave (Off Charlton Way), SE10 8BY
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford
Meet outside Tina, We Salute You near East Village, 2 Olympic Park Ave, E20 1FT. Walks start at 10am and 1:30pm
Royal Arsenal, Woolwich
Meet outside Boulangerie Jade, 9 Major Draper Street, Royal Arsenal Riverside, Woolwich, SE18 6GD. Walks start at 10am and 1:30pm