RPS Courses - Mentoring Guidance on gaining a LRPS or ARPS

Summary

- Produce a panel of images for an RPS Distinction Qualification

• Online - Zoom

• Evening Class - 19:00 - 21:00. Six classes; you choose dates within twelve months to suit

• From £395

Having supported many clients through a journey of development and improvement with their photography over the past ten years, my RPS Courses for distinction mentoring is for those who are already technically competent (or at least are on the path to mastering it) and can demonstrate good design and composition in their photography.

You are not expected to be a master or even polished to attend. This course is to help support you in improving in all three areas of image production:

• Technical - The mechanics of it

• Creativity - The reason for it

• Output - The editing and publication of it

You will be expected to understand and demonstrate or be willing to learn;

• Good exposure of photographs

• Good compositional awareness

• A range of techniques and styles (L) or a specific themed body of work (A)

• Ability to edit images to a "reasonable" standard.

Over 12 months, you will attend six classes at intervals suited to you online using Zoom; professional input, feedback and support will help you progress towards either the A or L distinction with the Royal Photographic Society. I have a 100% success rate with all applicants I mentored, achieving Licentiateship and Associate Distinctions.

RPS Courses - Mentoring for Distinctions

• Via Zoom online in a group of max 3

• Dropbox used for updated portfolios and images

• Group collaboration and sharing (Min 2, Max 3)

• 2hrs - 7pm - 9:00pm classes on monthly basis - Option to attend/leave when it suits you -

• You pick six class dates within 12 months

• Classes must be taken within 12 months of booking the course or forfeited, but there are options to extend the timeline and retain unused classes or add additional classes.

• Advice on an individual basis throughout

• Support for panel ideas, layout and coherence

• Technical and creative critique with suggestions for improvement

• Support for L and A panel submissions process

• Support for DPI or Printing quality and formats

• Support for Advisory Days and pre-assessment

• Support for final 10 or 15 prints and panel

*Note: Your tutor, Alan Ranger, holds both the RPS's Licentiate and Associate Distinctions, but the RPS does not accredit this Course. This is not an approved course or endorsed by the RPS as an organisation. Alan’s advice is private, unofficial and based on his experience and understanding of the elements required to reach the standard that may result in being awarded a distinction without any guarantee.