Photography training for estate agents

Photography skills for property professionals

Are you happy with the quality of your house interior and exterior property photography?

With bespoke real estate / estate agent training courses and professional development seminars throughout the UK, our training will help you can improve your building and house photography.

Better pictures reduce the time from listing to sale
Give a more professional look to your service
Good pictures catch the eye of future sellers
Do your own photography - save on outsourcing costs

Learn real estate photography from a professional interior and architectural photographer.

Northlight Images provide high quality architectural, industrial, commercial and residential photography for estate agents and property management agencies.

Training Prices

We offer a variety of digital photography training courses and seminars at your location, to meet the requirements of estate agencies and property developers.

We also speak at conferences and exhibitions, and can fill any time slot you want.

Other Photography training areas:

General photography training
Product photography training
Digital Imaging Technology (inc. Colour Management)

Download our FREE interior property photography tips (PDF) We asked Keith Cooper to pick ten of his top tips for better and more consistent interior photography. They represent just a part of one of Northlight's training courses and seminars, but give an idea of the practical information you'll learn. The PDF includes details of how to get Keith's top tips for exterior photography too.

We can help you take better photographs of residential and commercial properties. We train individuals and groups in Leicestershire, the UK East Midlands (Northampton, Nottingham and Derby) and have run courses all over the UK.

We also provide bespoke digital photography courses, which cover composition and lighting techniques in property photography, the technical aspects of photography (exposure, depth of field etc.) and what to do with the images once you have transferred them out of the camera (image processing in Photoshop, using images for both web and print).

Our training is always tailored to fir your particular organisational needs.

With our extensive experience of colour management issues, we can also help you address more fundamental problems with colour images in printed brochures and newspapers.

We can also provide you with specialist VR (virtual reality) photography training.

If you want group tuition and photography training, we provide seminars for any number of participants.

For individual and small group training (2-3 people) we can visit empty properties with you and provide hands on training and guidance.

Learn how to get the best from your photographs.
Find out how to make your images look that little bit better on the web or stand out in the local paper.

Learn to correct images with bad lighting, how to make the best use of available light, and the basic rules of composition that will drastically improve all your property photography.

Discover why trying to make a room look as big as possible may not sell as well as making a room look interesting.

Simple fixes to get round the problem of looking from a dark room into a light one and vice versa.

Learn how to deal with annoying reflections from windows and doors, and when to make use of them.

Bring your own cameras along and find out what they are really capable of (but do remember your manual!).

Why do buildings in some photos look as if they are falling over? Discover the benefits and pitfalls of using very wide angle lenses.

For higher end properties we can show you the techniques and equipment needed to take images for brochures and booklets - we aim to match our courses to what it is you need for your agency.

See how we go about producing our high quality promotional photography for show homes and show flats for developers and builders.

Training works - it helps you maximise the usefulness of your property photography

Sometimes just knowing to wait for the light is all you need...

Repairing and correcting images

Learn how to go from a kitchen interior image like the one at the right, to one like the version below it...

...in only a few simple operations in an image editor like Photoshop.

We are also happy to advise you on camera and equipment purchases - although we do not actually sell such items ourselves.

Our training courses for estate agents and developers are held at your own preferred location, whether at your offices or in example properties.

We also provide product photography training and more general photography teaching and training and have free downloadable versions of some of Keith Cooper's image manipulation tutorials.

VR photography training for interiors and exterior use

Northlight provides a range of VR (Virtual Reality) and panoramic photography services, such as 360 virtual tours - This is specialised work and require a not inconsiderable investment in equipment and VR software (such as Stitcher Pro).

Why pay someone else to produce VR tours and the likes for you?

We can help show you the techniques and equipment for producing VR movies of properties, and help you save money by creating them yourselves.

We can provide training in this specialist area - please contact us directly for more information (Note that this is not part of our normal Estate Agent photography training courses)

How long are our photography training courses?

Since our estate agent photography courses are customised to your requirements, it all depends on what you want to learn and your existing skill levels. We have provided courses from two hours to three days.

For a small group, a full day course might consist of 'classroom' type work at the start, a visit out to a property, and returning to study the images taken and look at how to process them in an editor like Photoshop.

For seminars, we ask that people bring along cameras (and the instruction manual, since we have not tried every single camera that's in use) and if possible let us know in advance any specific problems they may have encountered - all our courses are customised, and we want to make them as relevant as possible to the needs of those attending.

New cameras - the shot below was taken on a training day, where new staff received cameras and the key knowledge to enable them to go out and start producing high quality property photography.

Of course it takes practice, but Northlight's training courses are aimed at instilling the basics of how to take good photographs, and giving your staff the expertise and confidence they need.

Note - we don't sell cameras or software, but we are happy to suggest different options that fit your business needs and budget.

How many people can attend?

Intensive courses are aimed at individuals, or 2-3 people at most. The training is very much hands-on, so you will be taking lots of photos and working on them.

For conferences and exhibitions we can fill any time slot you want and have addressed audiences of several hundred.

The picture below was taken at a recent half-day training seminar for eight estate agents. We look for a maximum of 12 for seminars.

The image on the screen is the kitchen example from above (biscuits not supplied by us... :-)

What about afterwards?

If you have been on a Northlight Images training course, we are happy to answer technical questions and clear up any related issues you might have about the course materials.

We know that often, people have plenty of other work to do in their jobs, and after a week or so, what was clear on the day may have faded a bit...

Some of our other Photographic services

Fine art prints for interior design and commercial use

We also supply large decorative prints of our commercial work, in addition to the fine art landscape prints that you can see in the Gallery

Interior Photography

Lifestyle and interior photography for designers, architects and housing developers.

Commercial Property

Commercial property and architectural photography.

Interiors/exteriors for web and high quality print use.

Event and Public Relations photography

There are full details on the Event/PR page.

Location based food photography

Food photography in your own kitchen or restaurant.

Corporate Event and Venue Photography

Our photography services are also available for corporate events and hospitality where we supply high quality images for publicity and promotional purposes. Our aim is to capture the atmosphere and convey much more than just a record of who was there.

Commercial services

Details on our commercial photography page.

Hotel Photography

We provide a full photography service for hotels, covering brochures, events and restaurant food photography

Landscape Photography

We provide commercial landscape photography for brochures, events and exhibitions.

Packshot and product photography

Product photography for print and web catalogues (with price guide).

Training / education / presentations

We cover a range of specific technical and creative areas including:

Product photography courses.
Digital Imaging Technology (inc. Colour Management)
Lectures/seminars
Better Photography

Keith Cooper is a qualified Adult Education tutor and university lecturer and has run a number of local training courses covering such items as:

• Digital Photography (introductory/intermediate level).
• Photography without a darkroom (intermediate/advanced level).
• Technical aspects include: digital cameras, scanning film, printing and Colour management.
• Photoshop for Photographers.

Several online versions, based on past courses are available for free on this site. An example from his introductory digital photography course covers Basic Image manipulation with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2. Note that although not using the latest version of the software, the sample images used are still included in his current training and the exercises are still extremely relevant. Over time we hope to add online tutorials based on many of Keith's courses.

Please call us today for an informal chat to discuss your needs, and how we can help ...

Other areas of our site that may be of interest...

Digital Black and White photography and printing. Based on a magazine interview with Keith. Some of his thoughts, techniques and tips for those interested in a digital approach to black and white. We've many Photography Articles and Photographic equipment and software reviews on the site aimed at helping you get the best out of your own photography.

There is a gallery of landscape photography and fine art prints.

The What's New page showcases new site features.

Visiting Leicester or wondering where it is? We have views from the Leicester traffic cameras.