Photography Lectures and Presentations by Keith Cooper

Digital Photography lectures and seminars

Keith is available to speak at companies and training events. His talks cover the range from technical aspects of digital photography and colour management, through to the interpretation of landscape.

Wider subjects include Search Engine Optimisation for Photographers and small business web sites
...we won't do such work, but Keith is happy to explain how you can do it! ;-)

Keith Cooper also provides lectures to photographic clubs and societies. Particularly popular are his demonstrations of colour management, where he illustrates some the benefits of monitor and printer profiling with examples from his Spyder Pro and PrintFIX review. Please feel free to give Keith a call if you would like any further information. The picture to the right was taken a trade show where Keith was showing various aspects of black and white printing on PermaJet papers, as well as helping explain colour management hardware and software to visitors. You can contact Keith at the address below: Contact details : Northlight Images, 86 Harrow Road Leicester, Leicestershire, UK. LE3 0JW (Maps) Telephone +44 116 291 9092 You can e-mail us:

Some topics covered...

How to take better holiday photos

OK, there is a bit more to it than that, but Keith is often asked to give short presentations to local business organisations and social groups. Entertaining -- and always informative

Digital Imaging technology

At whatever depth and complexity is needed, from the details of semiconductor technology to camera design, Keith can customise presentations to meet your business needs.

Keith often gets asked what cameras to buy -- it's a tricky question with so many now on the market, but he has put together a short guide that may be of help in deciding what you want to know.

My first digital camera?

The art of photographic composition

With quizzes, audience participation and prizes, Keith has managed to teach a whole room full of Estate Agents to take better pictures of peoples houses...

Estate Agent training
Product photography Training

Also popular with other organisations where staff need to take photos for everyday business use.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for photographers

Even if asked very nicely, we will not provide SEO services for photographers and other businesses. As Keith says: "If I wanted to be a web developer I would be - I'm not, I'm a photographer!"

Keith is happy to tell other people how it can be done, and regularly speaks at business networking meetings and conferences.

What's more, even if you pay someone to do the work for you, he gives a checklist of probing questions to stop your business getting ripped off (and maybe by your own web design company)

A few quick tips if anyone calls and tries to sell you SEO services for your site

Beware -anyone- who calls you.
Find out how well they do with a quick search for something like 'Search Engine Optimisation Company'. If they can't promote themselves, then how are they going to help you?
Do they guarantee positions. If so, then hang up... no one can guarantee listing positions.
How many links they can buy for you? ... any number is bad, this is a good way of getting your site blacklisted
What strategies will they use to optimise your site ... reputable suppliers will tell you
What keywords will they optimise for? ... In general, they should be asking you for this info.
Ask if they can optimise for a basic company category such as 'commercial photographer'. If they say yes then leave alone, since they should be looking at far more detail about what your business does and where it does it.
Ask for references in your own field of business.

If it's more than zero links then walk away - buying links is a nice way to get your website banned. Current thinking is that small amounts of link buying MIGHT be OK, but done clumsily will result in your website being banned.

The picture shows Keith illustrating some of the latest advances in brain imaging and how they help provide an explanation of how we understand sarcasm... :-)

Mac Stuff...

Keith also contributes to many of Northlight's Apple Macintosh training courses, particularly with aspects of Adobe Photoshop for photographers.

He also provides advice and guidance on colour management issues to several local organisations.

Other areas of our site that may be of interest...

NEW -- Create your own customised A3 size wall calendar from a choice of 90 of Keith's images. Choose your own images for your own custom printed calendar - 12 months starting any month of the year - many all new images not yet in our main gallery.

Digital Black and White. Keith was recently interviewed about digital black and white photography for a magazine article. We have an expanded version here covering some of his thoughts, techniques and tips for those thinking of trying black and white.

As well as our Commercial Photography services and Training there is a growing collection of photography Articles and Reviews on the site aimed at helping you get the best out of your own photography. We also have a growing collection of Photography related information and links that we hope you find useful.

New site features and some of Keith Cooper's latest work are always covered in the What's New page.

Visiting Leicester or wondering where it is? We have views from the Leicester traffic cameras.