Payment in UK Pound Sterling NOT Euros. Payment by electronic bank transfer or PayPal invoice. PayPal invoices contain two items: ‘Workshop Fee’ and ‘Reimbursement of PayPal Fees’: an amount equal to PayPal’s deducted cost, calculated at 5%. All workshops require a non-refundable deposit of UK £900. For UK workshops, the rental cost of the holiday cottage is required when booking. The workshop balance is due thirty days before the workshop. The client covers any workshop expenses: accommodation, travel, airfares, etc, but not food, meals, and drinks.

David Osborn retains full copyright and intellectual property rights over the knowledge and recordings. Knowledge is for personal use only, not commercial use, and must not be passed on to anyone else. Insurance: I am not responsible for any damages, loss, or personal injury to yourself, belongings, or equipment. You must have insurance to cover all eventualities – including any eventuality that prevents you from attending the workshop. Driving: If the client drives on the right-hand side of the road, then the client will do non-UK driving. I do the UK driving. Payment for any workshop is also an automatic acceptance of these payments, copyright, intellectual property rights, and insurance conditions.

Accommodation is self-catering holiday cottages with separate bedrooms but often no Wi-Fi. Bring your camera equipment, tripod, laptop, and portable hard drives for PC to store workshop images. Warm, waterproof clothing and boots, washing kit including towels. I supply the PC with a 27-inch monitor. Meals are bought in local pubs. Wales is ideal for learning the workflow – but is not good for gaining portfolio-quality images. Workshops held in other European countries should be considered if portfolio quality photography is your priority. Workshops start and finish at the cottage. If you need to travel from London, you are welcome to travel with me; donations towards petrol costs are always appreciated.

The perfect combination for learning in any of the beautiful locations of Europe, and returning home with portfolio-quality photography. Three extra days worth £1,000 are included free with all non-UK workshops. These days must be used only for shooting portfolio-quality photographs. You gain the three extra days of workshop time and knowledge free, along with better workshop material to learn the workflow and portfolio-quality images. In return, I gain new images that I could not get here in the UK, which all help keep my website fresh and up to date.

Online workshops are held Monday to Friday – Not on Weekends. Online workshops use free Zoom video conferencing software for live tuition from the comfort of your home. You will need a computer with a camera, microphone, and speakers. Zoom video software needs downloading but is free to use. You also need Adobe Photoshop installed. Every session is video recorded live. This recording is your documentation for after the workshop ends; so you can continue learning. You also receive the Photoshop files created during the workshop. If any session needs to be canceled, we reschedule that session for another day, the session is not lost, nor is there any additional cost or penalty incurred.

I will send you a set of files via WeTransfer before the start of the online workshop. Certain images are better for teaching different techniques so we need to work on multiple images throughout the online workshop as opposed to working on just one image from start to finish. It is also beneficial to use your photographs at times in the workshop because you have a more personal connection with the photographs. If you have any favorite raw files of photographs you like, then it is well worth searching them out so we can also use them as workshop material.

You only require a basic working knowledge of Photoshop concepts – layers, groups, and masks, the general program layout; what and where the basic tools are, etc. Using the car analogy: Know where everything is in the car –  but I will teach you how to drive the car! Having a working knowledge of Photoshop just means we can invest the limited workshop time in learning the creative workflow rather than Photoshop basics. Before any workshop, online or in-person, I will also ask you to send me some samples of your photography or a website link to your work. This helps me to get a feel for your work and your current retouching ability so I can fine-tune the workshop to be more efficient and beneficial.

In addition to the main photography workshop held online or in-person described here, I also offer customized workshops where you tell me what you want to learn, an introduction to Photoshop for total beginners in Photoshop, or for those wishing to upgrade from Lightroom. I also teach panoramic photography and the use of panoramic heads and PTGui stitching software. Please email me if your interest is outside of the main photography workshop described here or if you wish to organize a customized group workshop, I will see what we can do.