Highly specialized, tailor-made for your specific needs. Focused training is the surefire way to get ahead, to concentrate on particular problems or creative impulses that you may have. All levels from beginner to advanced are welcome. Before the course, Oliver will assess your level and make recommendations on what topics you may be interested in discovering. Please browse the list of topics below that Oliver can teach you. Practical sessions can also be planned. For all custom design courses, the program is put together in consultation with Oliver.

Camera functions and settings: learning how to set and operate your camera, visual fundamentals: composition, lighting. focal length and perspective, what makes great photography: narrative and aesthetics, travel and landscape photography.

Developing consistency in your picture taking techniques and aesthetic style, learning how to experiment, editing to select your strongest work, image quality and shooting for best file results, colour and black and white photography, introduction to flash photography, Introduction to post-production.

Developing consistency in your picture taking techniques and aesthetic style, learning how to experiment, editing to select your strongest work, image quality and shooting for best file results, colour and black and white photography, introduction to flash photography, Introduction to post-production.

Introduction to photographic style, how to build your own visual language, how to develop a personal approach, techniques for creating a range of visual characteristics, aesthetic consistency, learning how to experiment, flash photography, flash aesthetics and shooting techniques for creating a photographic language using flash, narrative photography, practical decisions that affect your photography and enhance your vision, how to get inspired finding new and fresh ideas to jump start your creative process.

Movements timeline, photography within fine art 1839-2018, how to start making fine art photography, basic techniques: applying aesthetics and visual characteristics to your ideas and photographs, inspiration and artistic expression, fine art photography today: the market and stylistic trends.

Camera Obscura, the inventors, pictorialism, the first one hundred years 1826-1926, pioneer photographers, photography within fine art movements, 20th century master photographers, contemporary photographic practices and cultures.

Aesthetic fundamentals: composition and light, portraiture and photographing people, event photography, constructed subjects, strategic visual communications.