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DSLR Cameras Made Simple: Take Pictures With Confidence
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DSLR Cameras Made Simple: Take Pictures With Confidence

Learn how to really understand and control your DSLR camera. Put your knowledge into practice to take great pictures.
Created byAndrew Hind
Last updated 3/2016
English

What you'll learn

  • An understanding of how the camera works from the inside out.
  • The ability to take control of the camera and understand the basic functions.
  • The opportunity to use your new knowledge to take creative and artistic photographs

Course content

4 sections • 18 lectures • 1h 8m total length

  • Introduction6:00

    Hello! Welcome to the course, a little about me, what we are going to be doing together and what to expect!

  • Back to Basics - How a Pinhole Camera Works4:51

    If you can understand how a simple pinhole camera works you're well on your way to understanding how any modern camera works as well. Learn how only two basic controls are the foundations of photography and understanding your camera.

  • Inside the Black Box1:52

    Learn exactly what goes on inside the camera to make the image and why this is so important to understanding how to take great pictures.

  • Inside Your Camera: What's the shutter and what does it do?3:01

    Have a look inside a camera and learn how the shutter is controlled, what it does and why it's so important to improving your photography.

  • Inside Your Camera: What's the aperture and what does it do?2:18

    Learn about how to use the camera's aperture and how it's used to control the quantity of light that enters the camera.

  • Shutterspeed and Aperture Recap2:11

    Find out how the light actually travels inside your camera, how can you see an image through the viewfinder and what happens when you press the shutter.

Requirements

  • You will need a DSLR camera. It doesn't really matter what make it is as they all work in a very similar way.

Description

If you have a DSLR you probably also have a large, fat and often confusing manual to go with it! You're probably full of creative ideas but frustrated at how complicated it all seems to take a picture on your DSLR and overwhelmed by menu choices and buttons.

This course will show you how simple the basics of your DSLR really are and teach you how your camera really works. We'll learn about basic settings and use your new technical understanding to take creative and artistic photographs. By the end of the course you will be able to control the camera rather than the camera controlling you!

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for beginner photographers who want to take control of their cameras, understand how they work and take creative pictures.

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