Personal Projects - Get Inspired...  Is returning!  Hailed as the push people needed to "Just Get Started" within their own personal photographic projects - we are once again running this very popular event to help inspire, motivate and help you to make 2019 the year YOU do something with your own personal photography.  The Evening will be full of wonderful photos, tales of how they were taken and what opportunities have arisen for the photographers because they just started on their own personal photographic projects.  Tonight at this Welshot Photographic Academy Evening based at the Chester Crowne Plaza we will be joined by a selection of Welshot Members and they will, through imagery and words, show you how you to can make a photographic project work for you.  Whether that is to get published, make a living, enter a major competition or to develop your skills and techniques on a personal level - no matter your goal or ambition, Tonight will have leaving full of motivation and ideas for your 2019 photographic journey.

Our very first “Roving Academy Evening” for 2019 is all about Low-Light and Long Exposure Photography. The location is the beautiful and historical St Asaph Cathedral and then onto the Marble Church in Bodelwyddan just off the A55 in North Wales.  While we will be concentrating on Long Exposures and learning how to photograph in low-light conditions there will be plenty of time to learn some HDR techniques and grab some close-up details if you would like. We will also learning the "Painting with Light" technique and showing you how to add light onto your buildings to give them that WOW factor.

Tonight at the Anglesey Photographic Academy Evening Welshot will be showing you how to use JUST ONE Light and how it can help you to create and make a powerful image in your camera – We will be using both Studio Lighting and Off Camera Flash equipment. You will be learning to make and create a variety of images with very different results and looks by using three valuable techniques. Rembrandt, Butterfly and Side lighting (otherwise known as split lighting). Take these skills home with you and you will be able to use every time you shoot in a studio or OFC situation.

February - the Month that belongs to Lovers - Yes, it is Valentines Day on the 14th February and tonight at the Welshot Photographic Academy Evening based at the Holiday Inn, Ellesmere Port we are going to be working with Mains Studio Lighting and our Models will have a "Valentines" feel to it. The Welshot Team Leaders will help you to make some wonderful portrait photography and you will learn how to work with, and pose Models.  Our Models will be wearing a variety of outfits that will surely get cupids arrow firing and you are guaranteed to get yourself a range of creative photographs for your portfolio. This Photographic Academy Evening is going to have it all, helping you to learn how to get the best from YOUR camera, fun and of course, chips.

The February “Roving Academy Evening” is all bout getting creative in Conwy. As it is still dark we will be using our cameras in Low-Light conditions and making a variety of Long Exposure photographs - from "Traffic Trails" to "Milky" water effects on the Quay. The beautiful town of Conway, North Wales will be our locations Tonight.  You will have a bit of a challenge to re-create some iconic images using a variety of photographic techniques and skills. Long Exposures, HDR, Macro (Close-Up) there will be plenty to capture on our Evening stroll with cameras. All after a Fish and Chip supper of course. We will also learning the "Painting with Light" technique and showing you how to add light onto your buildings to give them that WOW factor.

Tonight, it is all about Off Camera Flash, Creating Bokeh and Working with Models using the lights of Chester to help create that special background effect to give your images that WOW factor.  At this Welshot Chester Photographic Academy Evening based at the Chester Crowne Plaza we will be out and about taking photos of our wonderful Welshot Models using the Off Camera Flash technique - aiming to create the bokeh effect using the available light of Chester  

What is Bokeh?  Bokeh comes from the Japanese word boke, which means "blur" or "haze", or boke-aji, the "blur quality." Bokeh is pronounced BOH-Kə or BOH-kay.  Bokeh is “the effect of a soft out-of-focus background that you get when shooting a subject, using a fast lens, at the widest aperture, such as f/2.8 or wider.” Simply put, bokeh is the pleasing or aesthetic quality of out-of-focus blur in a photograph.