Photography Courses

Courses

Barrett & Coe have trained over 400 people from all walks of life, who are now making a good living from their professional wedding and portrait photography. This experience has shown it is not possible to learn all that is required to operate and run a professional photography business on a 1, 2 or 4 day course. This is why our photography courses are spread over a 3 or 6 months period to give you the time to assimilate all the knowledge required.

The UK's most experienced photography teaching team

Photography Course tutors (from L-R): -
David MacDonald, Elaine Sheppard, Andrew Coe, Grahame Jackson and Martin Wise.
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Our tuition team includes the most experienced and successful photography tutors in the UK, including David MacDonald, former Kodak Photographer of the Year. All are leaders in their fields with proven stunningly successful career achievements. More on our teaching team >>

Turn your passion into a career

We can change your life and make photography your career. Over the last 18 months we have supported over 20 students to open successful Barrett & Coe studio, some within four months of completing their course.

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Photography course benefits

Held mostly in Ware, Hertfordshire (close to London Stansted) our Portrait and Wedding Courses have the most in-depth syllabus for photographic training in the UK. As an add-on, included in the course fee is access to family portrait bookings and wedding leads throughout the UK (for students who achieve Grade 2 and above). Latest course dates >>

Our Photography Courses are unique:

• Learn selling techniques employed by course tutor David MacDonald (past Kodak Photographer of the year) to achieve average sales of over £900 per family portrait session
• Discover how most of our ex students can average over £2,000 per wedding. We have many with portrait sales in excess of £70,000 per year in addition to weddings
• Following completion of your course your weddings and portraits will look like you have been a professional photographer for 10 years or more
• Many students have earned their course fees back before the end of the course, sometimes achieving portrait sales in excess of £1,000
• Nationally renowned judges for the Master Photographers Association (MPA) and the British Institute of Professional Photographers (BIPP), George Dawber, Peter Ellis, Ray Lowe, Llewellyn Roberts and many others have said that licentiate qualification panels from Barrett & Coe course attendees are of a consistently higher standard than the other panels they judge
• No other wedding photography course has achieved such an outstanding record of success

• Included in your course is the opportunity to accompany a Barrett & Coe photographer on a wedding and to sit in on portrait sessions and viewings
• One to one business planning consultation with Andrew Coe to help you launch your business
• Individual mentoring throughout your course with continuous critiquing of your work
• Student groups are usually about 6 to 10 people and include one-to-one sessions with course tutors  
• Practical Day for 6th seminar, photography experience with models, discovering what it’s like photographing a real wedding or family portrait sitting.
• Each student is awarded a Barrett & Coe Diploma on completion of the course.

Students from far and wide

In the last 12 months our phototgraphy course students have come from as far away as Russia, Norway, Bahrain, Scotland and Ireland.  All have been so impressed that they returned for a second course. (We do one Wedding Photography Course and one Portrait Photography Course).

On finishing the course, Barrett & Coe are the only organisation who can provide immediate bookings so that you have a profitable business from your very first day by opening a Barrett & Coe Portrait and Wedding studio. We can assist you with your marketing and appointment bookings, all you have to do is take the photographs and start earning money.

Examples of student success

During the past year graduates form our Wedding photography courses have photographed weddings in the following locations: The Tower of London, Downing College, Forest of Arden Hotel, The Savoy, Durham Castle, Bolton Castle, Zermatterhoff Hotel, Zermatt Marriott Hanbury Manor Hotel, Langley Castle, The Ritz, Goodwood Marriott Hotel, Dalhousie Castle, Lumley Castle, Norwich Cathedral, Raven Wood Hall. We can teach you to take photographs like this, within one year, even if you have no previous photography knowledge or experience. To view examples of Wedding photography taken by former students click here >>

Recognised qualifications

Each student is presented with a much coveted Barrett & Coe Diploma in Photography upon completion of their course.
Approximately 10% of our students gain a Grade 1 Diploma score.

Potential earnings from running your own business

Barrett & Coe - the UK's most successful wedding and portrait training courses for beginners.

All our students knew little or nothing about professional photography before enrolling on one of our courses. Over 400 course graduates now run their own successful wedding photography and or portrait photography business.

Below is a typical month's sales of recent graduates from our courses