Training & Consulting

Image Science offers a variety of training programmes (and general consulting) to individuals and small groups. All our courses/consulting can be tailored to your specific needs, equipment and location. Jeremy Daalder (director of Image Science) delivers all of our training courses and has extensive professional training experience.

The modern photographic craft involves three key areas:

Photography and Image Construction

Learning about photography and image construction takes a lifetime. Even a three year degree programme can only take students to a certain point. That said, the basic technical skills of photography and lighting can be taught quite quickly with a one-on-one approach.

With modern digital cameras, feedback is almost instant and so the key principles can be demonstrated and practised quickly with instant re-inforcement. There's no quicker way to learn.

If you are interested in learning more about photography, please see information on the Photography Half Day Course.

Photoshop and Image Editing

Photoshop is an enourmous and intimidating piece of software. It offers many more ways to damage an image than to improve it, and it takes time and signifcant understanding to learn to use Photoshop to its full potential.

Above and beyond the technical side of learning Photoshop, issues of image constuction come into play. Learning to make your images more expressive through selective tone and luminosty controls is important and can dramatically effect the quality of your work. Photoshop should always be more than just 'twiddling the knobs' and seeing what comes out - good Photoshop is about knowing what you want and knowing the best way to achieve it.

If you are interested in learning more about Photoshop and digital image editing, please see information on the Digital Day Course.

Colour Management and Image Output

Colour Management is the science of making devices produce colours accurately and consistently. It's about learning to make the best possible match between the original scene, your monitor, and the prints you make. Good colour management allows you to take control of your print quality, and to take your print quality to a level unavailable even a few years ago.

The final photographic print is a combination of elements - the substrate and surface of the print itself (print materials), the available contrast range of the print, and colour gamut of the print. It's learning to use these elements in the most suitable way for a particular image that really separates fine printers from amateurs.

If you are interested in learning more about colour management and image output, please see information on the Digital Day Course.