The first session of the course will include an introduction by Tom and the Photography Experts team to explain how the Masterclass course will work. This will include a full tour of your subscriber features, your document and recording repository, and use of the forum features. There will also be tips on how to make the most of Zoom to fully participate in the live sessions, and engage with Tom and your fellow course members. Access to technical support by Photography Experts will continue throughout the duration of the entire course. Tom will also be setting out his ambitions for the course and your development.

The premise of Part I is to present the fundamental foundations for improving your ability to achieve those aspirational professional standard images. Tom details his thought process and methodology when planning a trip, the various research he undertakes as well as the advantages and disadvantages of having preconceived ideas on the photographs you would like to create. This session will cover the range of equipment Tom chooses to take on location and give a detailed account of how his camera is set up to capture his fine art photographs. Tom will present a variety of favoured settings whilst demonstrating that the more you understand about your camera and its capabilities, the faster and more notable your improvement will be.

Once we have a better understanding of the necessary settings to take well-exposed, technically sharp, and well-balanced photographs, what next? When looking through the viewfinder to compose your image, how can we step away from simply documenting and recording what we see to capturing compelling photographs that hold our attention? Throughout Part II, Tom presents a number of important key factors which he looks for on location to create successful imagery and how he goes about using these effectively.

The way in which we process our photographs is extremely personal. We all see the world slightly differently and have our own preferences but that is what makes art so fantastically subjective and us all unique as individuals. The majority of photographers will shoot in RAW and as a result, the photograph will then need a level of processing in order to bring the image back to what we saw at the time. During this masterclass session, Tom will demonstrate his own Adobe Lightroom workflow by processing both a colour and black and white image from start to finish. Tom has specifically chosen two images that will encourage conversation on a number of different topics and cover the tools he often uses across his portfolio.

The final session will fuse together the key areas covered during this masterclass series in the form of an image critique. In this small and structured working environment, Tom invites the group to share a number of their own images for his review and stimulate discussion on each of the photographs giving his suggestions for improvement (if needed!) either through the settings used at the time or through the slightest alteration in post-production. During Part IV, Tom speaks about the challenges we face as photographers in critiquing our own photographs and ways to overcome this in the future. Although the masterclass series comes to an end here the group forum and online support that Tom offers covering any questions you have when putting these newly learned skills into practice will continue.

Tom has purposely built in between the teaching sessions several great ideas for delegates to work on the private forum under his guidance allowing everyone to work through the ideas and information imparted, he will always be collaborating via the forum with tips and supportive advice and individual images and concepts are worked on. And of course, remember all the sessions are recorded for you to watch over and over again.