Do you want to be part of a community of photographers who are dedicated to improving their craft and maintaining a safe space for everyone to thrive? Guided by a compassionate and experienced photography tutor?

Our Savvy Shooters membership is designed for new and existing photographers who want to work on their photography goals, get guidance on areas to focus on, meet new people and gain motivation to go out with their cameras for fun too! We hold monthly meet ups, can assign you photo buddies in your local area and there are tons of free resources to have a look through. There are also online courses for you to take part in, included with your membership.

We also hold competitions, group projects and have live demos and edit with me sessions with our tutor Gem. 

You can learn a lot from the courses, but also from the resource pool that you get with this membership. 

The benefits of joining our Savvy Shooters membership include:

Access to our resource pool (for personal use)

Our resource pool has been created with years worth of experience and with many hours of love. You can use it to get tips on all types of photography, from photographing flowers, composition guides, website recommendations infographics and much much more.  

Each resource is nicely designed to look good printed, you're welcome to print any you like for personal use. 

Quizzes

There are some starter quizzes in the membership at the moment, there will be more produced over time. Quizzes will also be in a printable format so feel free to use them with your camera club or local groups of photographers.

Paperwork Templates for Collaborating

Example model release form and shoot agreements included.

Photography Community Access

As a Big Cheese member you are invited to join our support group. We have our facebook group here and our new community feature here is ready for all of your posts. It's a simplified version of our facebook community which works best when you use the search bar to look for keywords if you need to find information or posts about particular things. This community is ONLY viewable by Savvy Shooter members, unlike our facebook group which is open to everyone.

Photography Competitions

Competitions are held monthly with participants able to submit 1 image per month, it costs £5 for the entry to cover admin fees. The winner will receive a free 1 hour 1-2-1 session and a winners badge that can can be added to their image to show off their award winning shot.

Group Photography Projects

Each year we hold both 52 week projects and 365 or (366 on a leap year) projects. This is where you take a photo every day or every week and you post it to our facebook group with either #52weekproject or #366project tagged in the post. We have suggested themes to follow each week which are announced at 8:30am on a Monday morning in our facebook group. I will also add a project section on this platform with all the details for the themes too.

Joining the group project gives a good feeling of accountability, keeps you practicing with your camera and includes you in our community - it's lovely to work on projects together.

Live Demos

Every so often I will pop a live demo up in the facebook group, talk about something photograph related or host a live editing session. The live editing sessions that I am calling our 'Edit with me' sessions are structured and run on the 3rd Monday of the month from 2-3pm. Pop it in your calendar on a recurring basis so you can come and say hi!

Monthly Meet Ups

At the moment we have a free monthly meet up where we find an interesting location nearby and gather to take photos over a couple of hours, these are informal session, some guidance will be available, but it's more to get to know each other a bit better and to get some quirky shots at the same time. 

Our monthly meet ups happen on the first Sunday of the month from 11-1pm at different locations. The event will be hosted on our facebook group and links and info sent via email too.

Courses and Video Lessons

As a member of our Savvy Shooters membership courses are included in your membership with no extra fee. New courses and mini courses will be released regularly. On launch of this membership site (in March 2024) we have one course available to start off with, our 'How to use Lightroom Classic to Import, Edit and Export'

Worksheets 

Worksheets from one to one sessions will be uploaded to your members area to look back through after your session.

Camera Club Resources

In this module there will be fun quizzes and activity suggestions that camera club organisers etc. can use when holding a photography based session. 

Discounted 1-2-1 Sessions

As a member you get a 10% discount off of 1-2-1 sessions with me. I still need to work out how to add the discount for you guys on the automated system so if you do want a discounted 1-2-1 please email me re your session for now at gem@devonpt.co.uk.

Monthly Q&A

This will be a recorded session where I answer some of your questions or frequently asked questions I see in other groups, these recordings will be stored in the Q&A module and you can watch back through them

Introductory Video Call and Progress Reviews

This helps me get to know you and your photography goals, you can book this on our online booking page here.

Have Your Say

I value every one of my members and without you our membership wouldn't be as awesome, and I wouldn't be able to do what I love! So please do have your say, what do you want to see from our courses and membership? Your thoughts are important to me, so please do use our feedback questionnaire if you have any ideas for new features, suggestions or feedback.

Updates

Weekly email updates will be sent out with links to our latest youtube videos, useful information on photography related news or offers, new courses and mini courses, course updates and when we add new resources to the resource pool.