photography for your creative business
A gentle, structured way to build confidence behind the camera
a five week workbook led course starting on 26th January 2026
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Photography for Your Creative Business is a five week guided photography programme for creative business owners who want to feel confident photographing their own work — now, and as it grows.
This is not about becoming a photographer, or chasing perfect images. It’s about learning to use your camera with confidence, trusting your eye, and creating photographs that reflect the skill and intention you already bring to what you make.
Why this programme exists
After many conversations with creatives, photography is the part of running a business that can feel the most daunting.
You love your work, and you want to share it with the world. But the thought of photographing it becomes so daunting. The light feels wrong, you’re pressing all the buttons and moving all the dials but the settings feel confusing, and the images don’t match how the work feels in real life.
Photography For Your Creative Business exists to change that.
To help you move from that hesitation into a more confidence space. From relying on the auto setting of your camera, to feeling able to photograph your work and your processes yourself in a way that feels natural and true to you.
As brand photographers, we recognise the value of having a professional photographer take a series of images of you and your business. Yet we also understand that there is a need for business owners to learn how to take photographs themselves.
Who this is for
This programme is for you if you:
Run a creative business as a maker, artist, florist, ceramicist, shop owner or other creative practitioner
Have a DSLR, mirrorless or bridge camera
Want to move beyond auto mode
Feel unsure about light, settings or composition
Want photographs that feel honest, calm and intentional
Would like photography to feel part of your creative practice, not a chore
You don’t need prior technical experience. You don’t need a studio or perfect light. You just need curiosity and a willingness to learn.
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How the programme works
Photography for Your Creative Business runs over five weeks and is designed to fit gently around your working life.
The learning is workbook led, so you can move at your own pace, return to lessons, and build confidence step by step.
Each week includes:
A thoughtfully designed workbook
Clear photography guidance and exercises
A live group Zoom chat for questions and feedback
Space to share work if you’d like (always optional)
All content and community are hosted on Mighty Networks, accessible via app or browser.
The weekly focus
Week One — Understanding Your Camera
Build confidence with your camera and learn how manual mode works, without overwhelm.
Week Two — Learning to See Light
Understand how light affects mood, depth and feeling, and learn to work with what you have.
Week Three — Composition & Simplicity
Learn how to frame, simplify and make thoughtful visual choices.
Week Four — Photographing Your Work
Create images of your products, details, spaces and process that reflect how you work.
Week Five — Bringing It All Together
Build consistency, confidence and a small library of images you can use with ease.
Support and community
Alongside the workbooks, we’ll meet weekly on Zoom.
These sessions are a space to:
Ask questions
Look at work together
Receive gentle, constructive feedback
Feel supported as you learn
Sharing your work is encouraged, but never required. Many people find it’s where learning settles — but there is no pressure to perform.
The group is kept small (maximum 40 participants) to ensure a calm, supportive environment.
ABOUT YOUR TUTORS
Hello, I’m Sarah, a photographer and filmmaker based in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire.
I am drawn to telling people’s stories, and motivated by the idea that these stories are all entwined with each other. For me, photography is a way of pulling on the threads of our lives, and finding the places where they knot and bind. It’s these tangled ties that give us our shared sense of humanity, and what we can return to when loneliness and disconnection creep in.
I work alongside my wife Suzi, who is also a photographer and together we have built our business over the last thirteen years.
For me, photography has always been about recording moments of connection between people, or the things they love to do. It’s about capturing the look of someone totally absorbed in their craft, or glancing at the face of someone they love.
I’ve also seen how important our photography has been to the growth of our own business, and I can see how valuable the skills we have are in marketing our work and building a community. I’m really keen to share these skills with other creatives.
Together we’ve been taking photographs of brands and businesses for over 15 years. While we’ve been fortunate enough to photograph a number of household name companies in this time (including The National Trust, Tesco Ireland and Canopy and Stars) our favourite shoots have always been those of individual makers, artists and creatives. We’re repeatedly drawn to photographing people who express themselves through their creativity, feel at home in their work, and make things with thought and intention.
You can see some of our work with these people here
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photography | Business | ourselves
Each week of the course consists of three separate teaching strands, each with their own lessons and exercises.
PHOTOGRAPHY
The elements of photography are the foundation of this course. We cover everything you need to know and understand in order to take photographs in manual mode, as well as light, composition and storytelling.
It’s about giving you the skills to express yourself creatively through photography.
BUSINESS
As business owners there are specific things we need and want to be able to photograph.
From product shots to how to photograph yourself at work, our aim is for you to start creating a wide portfolio of images you can use to market your business, and build community once the course is finished.
OURSELVES
It’s only by bringing a part of ourselves, something vulnerable and honest, to our photography that we are able to create something truly magical.
For this part of the course I will be joined by our Creative Business Mentor, Fiona Barrows, and together we will explore the connections between ourselves and our work, and how we can use them to enliven our photography.
At the end of the course, we would like you to feel:
Confident in your ability to use your camera and take the photographs you would like to take.
Not needing to wait for a professional photoshoot, and able to add seasonal elements, or photograph new products or services as you create them.
Understand yourself and your business better, and be able to communicate this through your photography and wider brand.
To have the satisfaction of having learnt and developed a new creative skill, and the excitement to continue taking photographs and building on these skills in the future.
To feel part of a community, supported and encouraged, and hopefully with a few new internet friends to follow!
photography for your creative business
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£345
(If you’d like to split this into 2 payments, please contact us and we can arrange this for you)
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this includes
Five weeks of course content across three teaching streams: Photography, Business, and Ourselves
Practical exercises in each stream every week to put into practise what you have learnt
Weekly group Zoom calls to ask questions and get feedback - these will take place in the evening but we will alternate days. All calls are recorded and are available for a week afterwards
A bonus lesson on editing
A bonus brand question and answer Zoom call with Fiona Barrows
A small and supportive community to share ideas and work with (maximum 40 participants)
All course content and community is hosted on Mighty Networks, a community-focused online platform. You can access via their app or through your browser
We really look forward to seeing your work and providing feedback during our weekly Zooms, but if you would like a deeper 1-1 to review work and move forward a few of these will be made available during the course for you to book.
“Sarah is brilliant at breaking down concepts so you can understand them in isolation before putting them altogether in manual. But what I like most about her approach is that it’s so gentle and humble. She takes care to make sure everyone is OK and listens to the answers. She has an infectious enthusiasm and so much skill and creativity - and she would never hesitate about sharing any of it. Thank you Sarah and thank you new and old friends.
Ffion Atkinson (words from our Photography For Your Creative Business in person workshop).
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What sort of camera do I need?
A: Any DSLR or mirrorless camera and you’re good to go.
Q: Can I do this course if I only have a smartphone camera?
A: Most of the Elements of Photography strand is about learning how to use a DSLR or mirrorless camera in manual mode, and you will struggle to get value from the course without one.
Q: Will you teach me how to use my specific camera?
A: All cameras are slightly different, and we just can’t cover them all! We recommend you dig out and become familiar with your camera manual before the course.
Q: What camera will you be demonstrating on?
A: We will be demonstrating on our Nikon DSLR’s and Sony mirrorless cameras.
Q: Will you teach me how to take photographs specifically for Instagram?
A: We believe photography is for life not just for Instagram! Instagram is a fantastic platform for sharing and building community, and one we really love, but it is not what we take photographs specifically for. However, good photography always does well on Instagram and learning how to take interesting photographs is useful if you wish to grow your profile.
Q: Do I get lifetime access to the course?
A: Yes you do. Although for obvious reasons, we can’t guarantee it will always be hosted on Mighty Networks, and that you will therefore always have access to the conversations that take place there. But we will make sure you will always have the core course materials.
Q: Will you teach me how to edit my photographs?
A: There will be a bonus lesson on editing your photographs, including demonstrations in Lightroom. If you do not have Lightroom then there will be other editing programmes that are similar in function but not in design so it would be up to you to learn how to use yours.
Q: Do I have to have a business to do this course?
A: No, but I think you would need to be creating something and hoping to share it with the world. Although again, we don’t think you would get full value from the course without it.
Q: If I change my mind after registration can I get a refund?
A: All payments are final, but if your personal circumstances change then please do get in touch.
Q: When will you be running this course again?
A: Our next run is tbc. Please join our mailing list to be the first to hear about it.