Photography Courses in Edinburgh

Stills, Edinburgh:
Stills opened in Edinburgh in 1977 as Scotland’s first gallery specialising in contemporary photography. We are situated next to Waverly Station in the vibrant heart of Edinburgh’s Cockburn Street. Since establishment, we have extended our facilities and now provide the best photographic darkrooms and digital production facilities in Scotland. We offer a programme of evening courses, weekend and one-day workshops, as well as a summer school in photography and digital media. We provide subsidised, low-cost training in everything from Photoshop and Dreamweaver to Black & White Photography so you can come to Stills to create your own website, print your own photographs, learn to use your digital camera and much more!

- Weekend Workshops:
* Digital SLR Camera Training
* Lomography: Creative Analogue Photography
* Portrait Photography

- Evening Courses:
* Digital SLR Photography
* Digital Video Editing: Final Cut Express
* Introduction to Black and White Photography
* Layout (Adobe InDesign)
* Maps & Mappings (Adobe Illustrator)
* Photoshop Essential Training Modules
* Website Design (Dreamweaver)

- 1 Day Workshops:
* Fashion Photography
* Portrait Photography

- Summer School in photography & digital media
and more...

Stills’ is Scotland’s leading photographic production centre. As well as providing state-of-the-art technical facilities, we operate as a hub for creative communities in Scotland. Following our extensive upgrade in 2007, we now offer suites of darkrooms and digital workstations with high-end peripherals such as a Hasselblad Flextight film scanner and an Espon Stylus 4800 A2 archival printer.

We have also established a dedicated video and sound editing studio together with a comfortable communal area which comprises a research library, with all the latest journals and magazines, free WI-FI internet access, collaboration zones and a private meeting room which can be booked through our reception desk. The Cultural Enterprise Office is also on site, delivering specialist business and professional development services for cultural practitioners and businesses.

Since 2001, our facilities have been run on an open access basis, meaning that we have no membership fees – to get started all you need to do is book an induction. We are now open 7 days a week, often until 9pm, and have recently changed our access arrangements so that you can either use our darkrooms and workstations like a studio, hiring them on a weekly or monthly basis, or simply book for a 3 hour session.