Photography: 10 Top Tips - Be More Creative with Your Camera
What you'll learn
- Have a good understanding of the basic function of their camera
- Know how to set the camera manually to get a correct exposure
- Understand how their camera ‘sees’ compared to how our eyes see (and why this is important)
- Understand different lighting conditions and how these impact photography
Requirements
- A Camera
- A basic understanding of your camera will help
Description
**Make sure to check out the bonus lesson right at the end of this course for some important information that will help you grow your photography skills even more!**
Welcome to Ten Top Tips - Be More Creative With Your Camera! This is a short course to give you my Ten Top Tips and explain why they will make you a better photographer. With over 35 years experience as a professional photographer I have designed these Top Tips to give you an encouraging start. Learning to use your DSLR, mirrorless or compact camera in Manual Mode and freeing yourself from letting your camera making choices for you will allow you to be more creative with your camera. I've kept my language simple and avoided using jargon as much as possible so that if English is not your first language it will be easy enough to understand (and I have had some good feedback from people telling me I am easy to understand.) All the photos and video used to demonstrate my teaching are taken by myself or my wife (I'm not someone who teaches photography by using other peoples photos, except for some special illustrations.)
You will gain a fundamental understanding of your DSLR, mirrorless or compact camera and how you can be more creative with your photography. I frequently run photography workshops with people who own modern, high tech, expensive camera equipment and shoot all their photos on auto. In this course I will teach you how to break free from just using your camera's auto modes and how you can be more creative shooting in Manual Mode. Any camera that has a Manual Mode (and that's most cameras) is suitable to sue with this course.
You will learn about the exposure triangle - ISO, Aperture and Shutter Speed, and how to use the camera's exposure meter to create well exposed photographs in any situation. I will teach you how to start appreciating different lighting conditions and how to take better photos no matter what the light is like. You will also learn how our eyes see differently than our camera and why this is an important concept for photographers to grasp.
People who enjoy photography are usually visual learners so I have designed this course to be as visually stimulating as possible. Ten Top Tips is mostly presented with video, including lots of photographic examples, diagrams and animations to help illustrate the teaching.
There is no time limit to the course and I would encourage you to take time to complete each lecture and exercise as you feel comfortable to. Even repeat a lecture and exercise if you are not sure that you are understanding the teaching.
It does take time to learn to operate a camera manually, but I encourage you to persevere as it is rewarding. As you study, do the exercises and practice the teaching in this course you will be more creative with your camera.
Who this course is for:
- This course is for people who have a camera they always shoot with on an auto or semi-auto mode who want to learn about shooting in Manual Mode
- This course is for anyone interested in learning how to better use their camera - whether it’s a DSLR, mirrorless, point and shoot or mobile phone
- Beginning photographers
- This course is for anyone wanting to learn more about how their camera functions so they can use it more creatively.
- This course is for people wanting to take more creative, eye catching photographs with their DSLR, mirrorles or compact cameras
- People who own a DSLR and are not fully confident using it
- People who own a mirrorless camera and are not fully confident using it
- People who own a compact camera and are not fully confident using it
Instructor
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I am a New Zealand professional photographer and film maker based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I have over 30 years experience. My background is in newspaper and commercial photography. The past 10 years I have also been producing short documentary films for non profit organizations.
My wife and I also run a photography workshop business - Chiang Mai Photo Workshops - teaching what we love to do to all levels of photographers. I have genuine, real world experience teaching, not just in creating video courses.
I am flexible to shoot in different styles and genres and am most passionate about portraits and documentary style.
I sell stock photos and video through various online agencies. The video production company I manage, Acts Multimedia, provides services for non profits at affordable rates.
I am always interested in constructive feedback and would love to know student's ideas on other photography course you would like to see me produce.