Talks & Judging

Find all Joe’s talk & judging details here - More than 20 talks / workshops and more in preparation! And I can always create a new talk - tell me what you would like…

Photography courses

Talk/workshop series - email or call Joe to discuss running these for your club!

Books by Joe Houghton

Streets of Dublin - a personal journey into street photography. Take your time - the art & craft of long exposure photography. PIcture perfect - a beginner’s guide to photography. And more in preparation…

1-1 tuition / coaching

Zoom or in-person photographic tuition - camera technique, post-processing, preparing for a distinction, backups & organising your images…Joe can help!


Click to download my 24 page 2022/23 talks brochure - updated April 2022!

After delivering more than 700 talks all over the world, I continue my “Zoom around the globe” tour in 2024 & beyond.

And lots more for the Royal Photographic Society too, with more than 100 talks & workshops already delivered for them and a new series “Lightroom step by step” already booked for a second run in 2023 as the first ones sold out! The two Lightroom creating panels workshops for DIG SE in March ‘22 attracted 300 & 400+ participants!

I have several brand new talks (and more coming) for the 2024 season as well as all the old favourites, and some new workshop series as well:

Denoise Shootout!”

CANVA for photographers

“Lightroom - all the new stuff”

“How to shoot better photos & easily fix the ones that didn't work!”

Photography in an AI world

Starting photography using Lightroom Classic” - new series!

“Lightroom step by step - new series!”

Making the most of the TOPAZ suite

Creating panels

Processing nature shots with Lightroom & Topaz

I didn’t know Lightroom could do that!

Processing a night shoot

Who needs Adobe - process for free!

Publishing a photo book

5 ways to create a portfolio website - for free!

So if you’re looking for a fun, entertaining and informative session, why not give one of these a spin!

Each of my sessions is only £100 (or equiv in local currency) with an edited video of the session available a day or two afterwards for an additional £25 - this can be great for re-watching the session and not having to take notes - especially for the Lightroom sessions!

Drop me an email to joe@houghtonphoto.com or give me a call at +353 86 384 3670 - I’m in Dublin, Ireland!

It was great to get an article into the Royal Photographic Society DIGIT magazine in June 2022 where I discuss creating panels. The article is on pages 24 - 30

My article “Photography in an AI world” is on page 19… Royal Photographic Society Digital Imaging News - January 2023

An article (pages 10-19) published June 2022 in the RPS Digital Imaging News on some of the good things photographically which I experienced during Covid…


I don’t just shoot street! Here are a few of my recent gongs from the Irish Photographic Federation Nature Photographer of the Year awards…


Photo walks coming up…

  • Nothing in the diary for the moment but happy to put any of my walks on if you’d like a date setting up… Just give me a call… 086 384 3670.

Book here! - only €60 per person


1-1 Training

One to one personal or remote computer based training. We can go through camera settings, photographic techniques, editing your images, lighting - whatever you need to move forward.

Joe has trained thousands of people from complete beginners to professionals, and was Nikon’s trainer in Ireland for 15 years.

Any camera type, any experience level, a session with Joe is friendly, and will focus on what you need to raise your game - there’s no such thing as a silly question!