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Photography lessons in Tokyo, Japan: technique, subject and project based learning for camera and post-processing.

Do you live in or near Tokyo and want to learn photography in English? There is no photography school in Tokyo that teaches in English but I have started private and group lessons, for people of all skill levels. If you want to know how I came to be a photographer or find out what I have done, you can read more about me here.

You may be someone who already knows something about photography, or who has a new digital SLR camera and wants to learn more. Or perhaps you are an absolute beginner and need some advice and a few lessons on how to get the most from the hobby? Whatever your needs, I hope I will be able to help. My students are currently a mixture of beginners and more seasoned hobbyist photographers, each with their own list of things they want to learn more about. With a lesson or two all of them have felt not only more comfortable with their camera andmore able to get the best from it, but also slightly more switched on to the world around them. Enough for it to begin to better feed their new-found skills with some extra creativity.

Photographic classes have started, so here are some more details:

Classes take place at a location convenient to you and me. I live in Shinagawa-ku and am happy to travel 30 minutes from there on the train to reach my students. The first lesson is 90-minutes long. The extra half-hour gives me a chance to figure out a little about your level of skill and experience. The lessons can be subject or technique based. For example we can shoot people or we could explore the topic of creative use of depth of field. Sometimes we do both subject and technique based things at the same time.

I try to teach people with little projects. It is more productive to shoot for a purpose than to aimlessly walk around shooting everything we see. It is better if you have a DSLR [Digital SLR] camera but it isnt the end of the world if you don't. I shoot a Nikon D300 and have a lot of lenses for it. If you also shoot Nikon, great, as you can use some of my lenses for the lesson. I can teach weekdays or weekends; mornings, afternoons or evenings. Whatever suits you.

Get in touch, drop me an email using my contact page and let's compare diaries!

I look forward to hearing from you.

Here is the poster, which includes all my other contact details.

Photography lessons in Tokyo, Japan

[I have just updated this with a Japanese language version. If you are viewing from English language computers and see anything odd, would you do me a favour and email me with details? Thanks a lot.]