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title: "Photo Course - Level 1: Get Out of Automatic Mode!"
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type: tour
city: Paris
country: France
price: 99
currency: EUR
price_unit: per_person
availability: bookable
rating: 4.76
reviews: 117
duration_minutes: 240
languages: [fr]
free_cancellation: "true"
schedule_checked: 2026-10-01
data_updated: 2026-10-12
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# Photo Course - Level 1: Get Out of Automatic Mode!

**Guidekin's take:** Learn to move beyond automatic camera settings through outdoor practice and immediate feedback on your photographs. A course booklet and follow-up video materials are included; camera loans are excluded. 4.76 from 117 reviews at €99 per person for 4h.

## Overview

In the manner of a language course, this introductory photography course will teach you first and foremost to communicate with your device. Our goal is that when you have a photo idea in mind, you can get it by clearly "explaining" to your camera what you want from it.

To do this, the photo course focuses exclusively on learning by doing. It takes place entirely outdoors, device in the hand. By going back and forth between theory, practice and immediate feedback of results by your PhotoProf (our photographers-trainers), you will be autonomous after only 4 hours.

You will then be able to manipulate the 3 main parameters of each shooting which are the aperture of the diaphragm, the speed of shutter and the sensitivity of the sensor; settings to use regardless of the type of photos you want to make (portraits, landscapes, moving or still subjects etc ...).

## Before you book

- Meeting point: The meeting place is set at the foot of…
- Starts 10:00, 14:00: 2 departures a day
- Wheelchair accessible: operator-marked
- Age 11+: minimum age to join

**Pickup:** No hotel pickup: everyone meets at the start point

## Key facts

- Price: from €99 per person
- Duration: 4h
- Rating: 4.76/5 from 117 reviews (collected from Guidekin & Viator & Tripadvisor)
- Free cancellation (see policy below)
- Operator: PhotoProf - Cours de photographie
- Group: Shared tour
- Guide languages: French
- Start times: 10:00, 14:00
- Booking: Instant confirmation, mobile ticket
- Price checked on Viator: 2026-10-01

## Reviews

4.76 from 117 ratings on Guidekin & Tripadvisor.
97% of ratings with a star breakdown are 4 or 5 stars: 113 of 117.

- 5 stars: 100 (85%)
- 4 stars: 13 (11%)
- 3 stars: 0 (0%)
- 2 stars: 1 (1%)
- 1 star: 3 (3%)

## What's included

- Written course support (booklet)
- Video course materials (after the session)
- Memorial Diploma

## Not included

- Loan of a camera (neither necessary)

## Schedule

- Runs: Sat, Sun
- Departures: 10:00, 14:00
- Schedule last checked: 2026-10-01
- These are published departures, not a live seat count; availability is confirmed at checkout.

## Cancellation

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

## Meeting point

The meeting place is set at the foot of the Petit Arc de Triomphe (also called "Arc du Carrousel") located at the entrance to the Tuileries Garden on the Louvre Pyramid side. Your trainer will be waiting for you under the monument.
Map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ49BsVS9u5kcRzjGO159hLDk

Ends: back at the meeting point

## Good to know

- Wheelchair accessible
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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