Smartphone Photography for Beginners - Beeston Library - Adult Learning

Beeston Library, Beeston

Date	4 October 2025
Time	10am - 3pm
Venue	Beeston Library, Beeston View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 15
Cost	FREE - £18

About this course

This course will help you to enjoy learning about and using your phone camera. The course will include some short walks around the local area to take photographs. This course assumes learners have no previous experience of photography.

During the course you will learn how to find your mobile camera app and locate your images in your gallery. You will gain confidence with the range of settings within your camera e.g. portrait, photo, panoramic or pano, professional mode and simple video settings, and learn which setting to use for a particular situation.

What will learners achieve by the end of the course?

Learners will be able to identify at least 5 settings available to them on their Smartphone camera and practice using them.
Learners will explore 2 basic composition techniques and discuss how these change their images.
Learners will find and use video settings to create a range of short videos using the settings available on their Smartphone.
Learners will discuss and compare two images each week and explain to the group why they chose the two images.

What you will need to bring to the course:

1) Fully charged Smartphone

2) A smartphone charger maybe useful

3) Suitable clothing for the weather for outdoor walks.

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
Tees Valley
West of England
West Midlands
West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office
You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014