Nashville Photography Society - Photography Classes & Courses in Nashville

Upcoming Events

Beginners Photography Class

Saturday the 8th of October

The Parthenon - 10am - 3 hours

Appropriate for complete beginners, or those who want to brush up on the basics and start enjoying our regular group meet-up sessions. Learn how to get off Auto Mode and onto Manual Mode, along with the basics of composition. Cameras, their functions, and all their accessories can be overwhelming if you are not already familiar with them. Discover how to use your camera to capture moments, events, and people in your everyday life. The class will cover a range of technical aspects, including aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. You will also cover focal length and lenses, lighting, and correct exposure.

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$76pp only 6 places left - requires 2 bookings to proceed

Landscape Photography Meetup

Saturday the 22nd of October

Radnor Lake State Parks - 10am - 2 hours

Come and join us for a Landscape Photography Meet-up! We will be going over elements of landscape photography covering composition, exposure, and depth of field. This is open to all levels to join.

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$39pp 9 places left

Beginners Photography Class

Saturday the 5th of November

The Parthenon - 10am - 3 hours

Appropriate for complete beginners, or those who want to brush up on the basics and start enjoying our regular group meet-up sessions. Learn how to get off Auto Mode and onto Manual Mode, along with the basics of composition. Cameras, their functions, and all their accessories can be overwhelming if you are not already familiar with them. Discover how to use your camera to capture moments, events, and people in your everyday life. The class will cover a range of technical aspects, including aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. You will also cover focal length and lenses, lighting, and correct exposure.

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$76pp only 6 places left - requires 2 bookings to proceed

Street Photography Meetup

Saturday the 19th of November

Nashville Farmer's Market - 10am - 2 hours

Going to be covering street photography philosophy, methods, and ideals; as well as going over what camera settings and lens types work well for shooting street.

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$39pp 11 places left - requires 3 bookings to proceed

Beginners Photography Class

Saturday the 3rd of December

The Parthenon - 10am - 3 hours

Appropriate for complete beginners, or those who want to brush up on the basics and start enjoying our regular group meet-up sessions. Learn how to get off Auto Mode and onto Manual Mode, along with the basics of composition. Cameras, their functions, and all their accessories can be overwhelming if you are not already familiar with them. Discover how to use your camera to capture moments, events, and people in your everyday life. The class will cover a range of technical aspects, including aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. You will also cover focal length and lenses, lighting, and correct exposure.

book now

$76pp only 6 places left - requires 2 bookings to proceed

Street Photography Meetup

Saturday the 17th of December

Nashville Farmer's Market - 10am - 2 hours

Going to be covering street photography philosophy, methods, and ideals; as well as going over what camera settings and lens types work well for shooting street.

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$39pp 12 places left - requires 3 bookings to proceed

Come along to our photo sessions to dust off your camera and get snap-happy with a professional photography instructor.
Brush up on your camera skills and learn new photography techniques whilst on a photo walk class with other local keen photographers!

We run two hour photography meetups based on a photography theme/technique/style and they take place in various locations across the region.

New to photography? We also run a popular 3 hour Beginners Guide to Photography Class once a month.

And once in a while we will run special niche 3 hour classes, for example, Astrophotography - so do subscribe to our newsletter to know when the next one is!

Who can attend? Open to all skill levels, from beginners to keen amateurs. The photography instructor is there to help you with camera settings and provide any advice you need.

What to bring? We recommend bringing a camera that has full manual mode or semi-manual modes (Aperture or Shutter Priority). Compact cameras and smartphones also welcome!

The meeting point and full details for the day are sent in the booking confirmation email to the email address you provide at time of booking.

Join the Nashville Photography Facebook Group to share your photos after the session.

We ask that everyone attending a meetup follows social distancing guidelines:

Stay home if you have any symptoms of COVID.

Keep 6 feet away from others.

Wear a suitable face mask or show a valid vaccination card indicating that you are vaccinated.

Don't make unnecessary physical contact with others.

* Wash your hands regularly with alcohol-based sanitizer.

I had a great time. Nathan was very nice and very knowledgeable. Make everyone feel comfortable and welcome.

5/5

Patti riley

April 24th 2022

It was a very relaxed and fun outing. Nathan was really helpful when I needed help and did a great job balancing between assisting other attendees.

5/5

Jenny Logan

April 18th 2022

I had a great time. Nathan was very nice and very knowledgeable. Make everyone feel comfortable and welcome.

5/5

Patti riley

April 17th 2022

I had a great time. Nathan was very nice and very knowledgeable. Make everyone feel comfortable and welcome.

5/5

Patti riley

April 17th 2022

Nathan was very knowledgeable and helpful in determining where to locate and update settings required for each topic of the class. Very enjoyable class.

5/5

Monika Farmer

March 6th 2022

This class was awesome for beginners! Nate was a great teacher and I am looking forward to taking another class soon

5/5

Alli Heese

February 21st 2022

This class was awesome for beginners! Nate was a great teacher and I am looking forward to taking another class soon

5/5

Alli Heese

February 21st 2022

Awesome! Nathan is so helpful!

5/5

Carolina Williams

February 19th 2022

Nate was so helpful my friend and I learned so so much.

5/5

Gina Boling

February 19th 2022

Causal, enjoyable, enjoyed the company and facilitator

5/5

Scott

October 25th 2021

Brandon did a great job working with the class. He made sure we were all comfortable with our cameras, then got us all engaged in activities to make us think on the fly and adjust our cameras to get the best shot. I thought it was a really great class.

5/5

Tina Roy

October 10th 2021

It was fun, nice people and a good way to meet people that love taking pictures as much as you do.

5/5

Brenda Connell

June 15th 2021

Nathan Marsland

Nathan was born in North Carolina, had grown up in Mississippi, and now currently lives in Nashville. He’s always been passionate about storytelling, and photography has always been one of his favorite mediums of telling tales, most notably through using film and hand developing his negatives as a way to add a more human element to his work. Nathan is primarily influenced through street photography, mostly through the works of Vivian Maier and Jim Marshall. As well as by Ansel Adams’ landscapes, and Hiroshi Sugimoto’s long exposure seascapes.