Industry Training
Photography Training For Working Professionals
Want to develop your photography skills? Are you a small business owner, marketer, content creator, frontline worker and need to take photos as part of your job?
I offer a variety of photography training options across New Zealand that will help you upskill and grow your “camera confidence” to approach your job more effectively.
From public small group workshops, to private bespoke options…there is something for everyone! Scroll down to learn more.
Photography Training Options
Public Group Workshops
Industry Specific Training
Private Bespoke Training
Examples of Local Industry Served So Far
Tourism
Hospitality
SME Businesses
Public Group Photography Workshops Available Now in Queenstown
Smartphone Photography 101 Workshop
This is a half day of training (4 hrs).
Multiple dates available (click the calendar icon in the checkout window)
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Training is a creative investment in yourself, your staff, your systems, and your brand.
Industry Specific Training
Photo Skills for Guides
Perfect for businesses that want an introduction to better photo taking skills for their driver guides or outdoor guides. You may have a fresh set of employees and just want to help them develop their skills, or you want to deepen some skills for your veteran team. 3 staff minimum to book. Half and full day trainings available.
Photo Skills for Hospitality Workers
For hospitality businesses that wants to help their staff develop the confidence to handle content capture and delivery on their own, whether they use their own smartphone cameras or company equipment. 3 staff minimum to book. Half and full day trainings available.
Individualised Consulting
Visual Funnel Strategy & Consulting
This workshop would be a 1-2 day deep dive into the content side of your business. We will do a full system audit to help your entire business capture, organize, and utilise visual content more effectively. Price on inquiry.
We will spend 7 to 8 hours (or more) with your staff practising in depth photography skills. The goal for the full day session is to simulate what it is like for your staff to use photography in their day to day lives.
We will work through custom scenarios based on your company needs. We will work with cameras that you or the staff have on hand (GoPros, DSLR, Mirrorless, phone cameras etc).
To ensure a hands-on experience, we’re keeping the group small & exclusive. A minimum of 3 staff members are required, and a maximum of 10 per session. If you require more staff to be trained, we can always book a separate session and group.
Through a questionnaire, I will help you identify areas within your business to make your content capture system more efficient.
Based on that, I will work with your Senior Leadership team to make recommendations on photography/videography software to use, content storage solutions, gear recommendations for staff who use camera equipment, and advise on client content delivery solutions. We will call this your team’s new “Content S.O.P’s.”
The aim is to look at how content can play a better role in your business or develop a plan for your in house team to more confidently take content from your experiences and market them to the world.
Train staff to more confidently capture higher quality content on your trips
Develop in house systems to streamline content capture, delivery and marketing material Stand out to your customers as a businesses that captures the authentic content
Why invest in your Staff?
Most companies don’t need more gear, they need smarter systems and a trained team.
✅ They’re out in the field every day
✅ Real-time content is authentic and effective
✅ Better UGC = better engagement + trust
✅ Reduces dependency on pro shoots for marketing content
✅ Staff love having creative tools that enhance their role
Keen to book but have something else in mind? Let's design a bespoke experience for your business!
Client Success Stories
We recently engaged Chris Chase Photography to run a half-day workshop for a few of our SkyCity Queenstown team members, after being recommended by the Chamber. Chris was incredibly responsive and easy to work with from the start. He tailored the session to our objectives, covering the basics and then guiding the team through capturing their own imagery in a way that supports the type of content and collateral we create.
His communication was clear, his teaching style excellent, and his background in education really showed. The team found the workshop both practical and enjoyable. I’d happily recommend Chris to other businesses or individuals looking to upskill.
Your instructor
Hi, I’m Chris Chase — a commercial photographer, filmmaker, educator, and creative consultant based in Queenstown, New Zealand.
Over the past decade, I’ve worked as a trained teacher in New York and across New Zealand, while also spending any spare time working in all sorts of roles within tourism and outdoor pursuits.
I have been a hiking and mountain biking guide, a snowboarding instructor and I’ve worked with tourism operators across NZ create content for all sorts of HERO marketing campaigns.
From multi-day hikes on Te Araroa to mountain bike journeys in the Coromandel, dolphin swimming in Kaikoura, to winter mountaineering on Mt. Ruapehu, I’ve seen firsthand how the best photos often come from the people already out there every day: your staff.
These trainings and workshops were built to give your team the confidence, tools, and systems to turn great moments into even better content.
-Chris
Chris Chase, Award-Winning Adventure Sports
Photographer, Filmmaker and Educator
Registered NZ Teacher and Proud member of the
Other recognition
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