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5 Star Google rated courses and private lessons.
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 2024
$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
$120.00 / 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
$95.00While this is a beginner’s photography course it is well suited to advanced photographers too. 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
$120.00This 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 using a Creative Kids voucher. From 1 February, we are accepting the new Creative Kids vouchers. Note: Read this page on how to use a voucher before proceeding. Simple and effective methods for Cameras and Smartphones taught by an expert in teaching and photography.
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Learn Lightroom & Photoshop Essentials
$120.00 / 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 $240 voucher can be redeemed for 2 hours of Private Tuition, face to face or Zoom anywhere in the world !
Give your loved ones an experience they won't forget this Christmas.
Gift Vouchers are emailed immediately after online payments are processed.
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
Very helpful. Thanks Scott
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.
Engaging and informative. Like learning a visual language one can build on.
Transformed my relationship with my camera.
Initially overwhelming but what I took away has given my the ability to understand, practice and generate photographs I have literally composed myself.
Thank you.
My 12 year old daughter has always loved taking photos and wanted to learn something more in a face to face one on one setting.
The beginners sunset photography course was the perfect choice!
Scott explained all the settings and instructions clearly and it’s obvious he is very passionate about what he teaches!
100% recommend the beginners photography course.
Scott did an excellent job explaining the basics of photo composition and editing, making you an instantly better photographer without the need for expensive cameras and tripods.
I did the half day course with Scott starting at the MCA. A fantastic and fast paced review of many different aspects of photography. Scott has a well organised sequence of locations to show you how to use your camera for all sorts of different purposes, in different light conditions. My course started with Scott showing me how best to photograph the large, reflective and stationary Opera House and ended with me trying to capture motor bikes zooming past on the Harbour Bridge approaches.
It was great fun.
My 15-year-old daughter used her Creative Kids Voucher to do a remote live learning 1-2-1 photo workshop with Scott earlier this year (2020), using our home laptop to do the session via Zoom and her Oppo smartphone to take the photos. Scott taught her how to use her fairly basic phone to its full extent and talked her through using free software to process the images in camera. He was very professional, organised and flexible when we were arranging the session, and he was clear, concise and informative when teaching. She really enjoyed the session and got a lot out of value from it. Scott provided course notes and was happy to talk to her again if she needed any extra help with something. From a parents perspective, it was great to be able to access this course online and live, as we don’t have alot of opportunities to do such courses where we live. The course is affordable, useful and fun. I highly recommend.
The half day photograph was an excellent course revealing the basics of photography in an enthusiastic way. The course has shown the balance within the elements of the manual with a highly passionate teacher commiting in an engaging fiery way. Awesome and fun course
My 15 year old son was able to utilise his creative kids voucher and enjoyed a very informative half day session with Scott. He really enjoyed it and learnt a lot about the functions of his camera.
My “Private Photography Tuition” session with Scott was informative, instructive and most importantly, enjoyable.
I have travelled to some amazing places in the world but unfortunately most of the photos I have taken along the way have been sadly lacking.
Some have been downright disappointing and I have had to delete them in disgust.
I have only ever used the “Auto” setting because I just didn’t understand any of the other modes and settings.
To say that I really didn’t know what I was doing is an understatement.
I’m happy to say all that has changed after spending 3 hours on Sydney’s foreshore on a gloriously sunny day learning how to take photos in Manual Mode.
It’s like a whole new world has opened up for me, one which I’m only beginning to understand (thanks to Scott) and one in which I’m the one that tells the camera what to do to take amazing and creative photos.
Obviously I have a long way to go but at least now the all-powerful triumvirate of aperture, shutter speed and ISO have been demystified.
Thank you Scott!