Emma Davies Photo School

I'm delighted with the course so far and how much it has pushed me on with managing light and exposure assessments and working with Lightroom and Raw images for the first time. The detailed instructions and editing videos have been invaluable and helped me produce some images I can feel proud. As with everything time is always a factor and so I'll be revisiting all the lessons as I feel there's still much more for me to work on and absorb. I'm especially looking forward to trying more single flower studies and macro.

Excellent course has taught me so much and showed me how much I have to learn, but the fun is not being afraid to try things, it does not matter if they are not perfect, each step is a step forward. I have so many ideas now. I also revisit the lessons to remind me of edits which is so useful.

This course is equivalent to being handed an enormous bouquet of flowers. There is so much content and information and it's been like picking out an unknown flower and learning all about it before moving on to the next. All beautifully arranged and presented so no leaf or stem is left out of place. As a bonus, the course has been an antidote to dealing with lockdown issues. Every week there has always been some photographic task to keep one's mind busy. Perfect !

This course has taught me more than I could have imagined. I highly recommend this course.

I was so pleased when this course came up. I had planned to photograph my garden over 12 months for my big project, but was locked down elsewhere for nearly 4 months missing the best time. I shall now do this next year and I now have so may more skills and knowledge (or the ability to retrieve them) and put them into practice. It is a well constructed course, giving a balance of instruction and 'rules' but with the added space to be creative. Ive loved it and made so many virtual contacts of like minded people who are generous with their constructive criticism and praise. Thank you for facilitating this. Now I need one for my first love - landscapes!

This course is great - really makes me think and pushes me completely out of my comfort zone into technical aspects that I have sort of been aware of but have previously shied away from. It has really improved my still life skills and every lesson is full of useful learning points. I look forward to doing my Sunday homework every week. Thanks Emma.

I really didn't want to press the 'complete and continue' button on the last edit of the lesson using a light box, because I knew when I did it would be over! I have thoroughly enjoyed this course. I have learnt so so much. Not just about flower photography, but about my camera (and it's limitations), myself and a bonus of flower arranging. Emma has such I wonderful style in her teaching, everything is broken down into simple to understand segments. Everything from the shoot, to lighting, settings and composition are discussed and shown, here we get the opportunity to see more of Emma's own images. The Edit part of each lesson gives you a walk through of the shoot and all the editing that Emma would do to the image herself. I think that you can actually see what Emma is doing is really helpful. Although Emma uses Lightroom, her descriptions of how she is editing the image are so clear that I was able to, with the help of notes I took throughout to transfer the edits to the programme I was using (Affinity). It has been a wonderful way to get through lockdown. However I would recommend anyone with even a slight interest in flowers to do the course, it is fun, enjoyable, baffling, finger twisting and makes you visualise your images more, plus the skills you learn are most definitely transferable. However as Emma says if you don't like editing then this is not the course for you, as you edit every image you take and it has certainly made me start to learn the editing process. Thank you for a wonderful course, definitely 5 star rating.