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5 Star Google rated courses and private lessons.
Book now for Vivid Night Photo courses. Starting 23 May 2025 !!
Private 1-2-1 lessons for Adults and Kids.
Remote Learning Australia/World-wide Photography Classes
Remote learning via Zoom private photography lessons. Amazing for remote locations. Beginners to advanced techniques for Cameras or Smartphones.
Kids Photography. Discount lessons with a Creative Kids voucher !!
Courses
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Vivid Sydney 2025
$95.00It’s on!! Vivid 2024. Learn amazing night photography techniques from a professional photographer in your 3 hour guided course. And take home images to be proud of. Small class sizes. Lots of personal attention! Amazing photos to take home.
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Private Photography Tuition
$125.00 / hourThis is the very best way to learn. You decide the content and the pace of the session, and get the chance to ask questions about any aspect of photography. One-on-one face time with Scott McGale, expert professional photographer, who teaches his own bespoke step methods to take control of your image, camera and get completely creative, or take your photography to the next level. These methods can’t be found on Google, are amazing and never fail. Scott has 20 years experience and can teach from beginner to professional level techniques. Creative Kids vouchers can be used for private tuition too.
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Sunrise Photography Course at Manly
$95.00DSLRs and Smartphones! Working with the stunning early morning first light you will learn to push the boundaries of creative photography. Scott will teach you long exposure seascapes and commando portraiture in this fast moving 2 hour course.
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Remote Learning Live Session
$125.00This is a bespoke 1-2-1 one or two hour live session. Great for Smartphones, and Manual Cameras, and can be taught live in any area of the country. Brilliant for remote areas. Through Zoom you get face time with a professional photographer to guide you and answer all your questions. Note. This is not a pre-recorded video but a live one-to-one lesson.
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Smartphone Photography & Storytelling
$90.00Learn smartphone photography and storytelling in this CBD 2.5 hour course to create fantastic images, videos and stories directly on your mobile phone. Then learn how to upload direct to social media in minutes.
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Half Day Photography Course
$125.00This 4 hour digital photography course has been designed for those who cannot commit to an ongoing program in a Digital Photography course but still want to know how to use their manual compact, Mirrorless or DSLR. This course guides you through Manual, Aperture Priority and Shutter Priority modes in a fun tour through the Rocks in Sydney.
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Kids Photography
$100.00 / hourBespoke 1-2-1 lessons. Simple and effective methods for Cameras and Smartphones taught by an expert in teaching and photography.
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Learn Lightroom & Photoshop Essentials
$125.00 / hourShooting a picture is only phase one of image creation while post production through Lightroom and Photoshop is phase two. This session will enable you to post produce your images to professional standard. Easy to understand step methods are taught to plan and take control of your image.
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Corporate Photography Services
$150.00 / hour+Our Corporate Services product has 3 options:
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1. Photography lessons. Teach your staff how to create amazing Social Media content with their Smartphones or Digital Cameras.
2. Organisational Team Building .We can create a fun photography day to get your team working together.
3. Photography Services. Scott McGale is your professional photographer who can create campaigns for your business.

Gift Vouchers
Instant Gift Vouchers for our photography courses can be purchased for various amounts.
A $250 voucher can be redeemed for 2 hours of Private Tuition, face to face or Zoom anywhere in the world !
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Your Photography Teacher
- Your teacher Scott McGale has over 20 years of International experience.
- Advertising campaigns for Wella, Clairol, Citroen and other international brands.
- An internationally award winning expert in photography and lighting
- Is a working professional and shoots advertising in Australia for fashion/beauty brands and corporate companies
- Shoots for major magazines like Marie Claire, Instyle, Sunday Telegraph Magazine.
- Loves sharing his knowledge and experience with students and has personally taught over 3000 students.
So much detail to see. So much to create.
Reviews
Scott was simply fantastic on the photography course! I was very fortunate to have a one on one and he talked me through how to use the camera (it was my first time using manual), and how best to take the actual photo. Scott is very friendly and patient. This course comes highly recommended and it was such a nice way to start the day! Scott even spent time advising me on a start-up set-up and which cameras to buy with a discount. One of the best mornings I have had in Australia!
Was a spectacular way to start a Sunday morning. Even though I was running late our teacher Scott McGale was eager to catch me up on what I had missed and went out of his way for all the participants, in what was an informative and educational morning. Would recommend to anyone to give it a go.
This is a great course! You are guaranteed to take great photos at beautiful Manly, and Scott made it a really enjoyable early morning session.
Highly recommend this course to anyone who enjoys photography. Thank you Scott.
Scott was friendly and informative and his experience with photography of all kinds reallt showed. As beginners it is easy to feel lost sometimes but there was no question you could not ask Scott, he was very helpful and we both enjoyed the experience greatly!
The workshop leader was very knowledgeable and made sure every attendee was informed and involved. We were taken to 3 different locations under different lighting conditions that made the workshop challenging and full of interest. Highly recommend.
Before I did Scott’s workshop, I was a very keen ‘auto’ photographer who felt that all the technical functions of the camera were too hard. After a four-hour class, I now understand how my camera works and what an amazing difference to my photos!
The half day course offers an amazing amount of information. The best thing is that the information is put into immediate practice with the guidance and assistance of an absolute expert.
I have already booked into the Manly sunrise course and look forward to building on the skills that I learned at The Rocks.
I can’t rate this workshop high enough. Scott is excellent. A great teacher and communicator. Explains things simply and logically to ensure students get the best possible results. Very well organised. Scott knows his timings to ensure the group is in the right place at the right moment to get great photos. His instructional workshop over coffee bought the morning practical all together and has allowed me to go on practicing what I have learned. I will be doing other courses of Scott’s as I progress.
I was given this course as a gift from my son who lives in London. Chances are he chose the course because of its location in Manly, as I live on the northern beaches. As it turns out I would have traveled across Sydney to attend, it was that good!
Scott is a very experienced photographer and an excellent teacher. The lessons are fast paced and full attention is required to absorb the information being imparted, but the satisfaction of mastering the knowledge and technique is inspiring.
The 8 hours spread over 4 weeks is over before you know it and it was quite sad when it came to an end. However, this is the beginning of years of enjoyment in the wonderful world of photography.
Thanks Scott, it was great!
I attended your Saturday workshop, and wanted to thank you for your consideration and patience. I typed up my scribbled notes and realised that there was a lot of learning crammed into that morning, especially for a newby who had not used any non automatic settings before.
I had tried to make sense of some of the myriad on-line tutorials, but found them confusing and rushed. Your patient explanation of how the settings worked, their relationships and effect were a breath of fresh air for me. I can now see that I need to practice your lessons until I am proficient, but I now have the confidence to do that. Once again, thank you.