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The Art of Film Photography & Basic Photography Skills
Rating: 4.2 out of 5(49 ratings)
468 students
Created byDean Miller
Last updated 11/2017
English

What you'll learn

  • Gain a basic understanding of Photography skills and techniques
  • Learn the science behind photography and the art of image capturing
  • Carry out and use film processing within the home environment using traditional practices
  • Become your own master of photography and learn in an easy going and light hearted fashion

Course content

5 sections • 18 lectures • 1h 9m total length

  • 3 Quick Tips to Improve Your Photography Skills!3:00

    Lets start the course at a simple level and look at three ways you can dramatically improve your images without touching a setting on your camera. We'll cover 'The Sweet Spot', 'The Rule of Thirds' and 'Positioning and Angles'. Try these composition tips out and you will see an overall improvement in your photographs. We will then take a look at Aperture in Lecture 2, one of the three key areas in image exposure.

  • What is Aperture? And What Does it Do?4:42

    One of the three fundamentals for correct photograph exposure is Aperture. Learn what Aperture is, how you can use it and what effect it has upon your images. Learn to take professional style portraits and encompassing landscape shots.

  • What is Shutter Speed? And Why Is It Important?4:59

    Use shutter speed to slow down your action shot or to compensate your Aperture setting. This lecture gives a run down on what shutter speed is (see Supplementary Material), what it does and how it works in tandem with Aperture for correct exposure.

  • What is ISO and How Can it Help Me?3:30

    ISO. What is it and how can we use it? This section will tell you how you can use ISO to improve the in depth quality of your photo, whilst also providing a useful tool to set an exposure that would otherwise be unobtainable in the environment you are in.

  • Composition - The Rules of Great Photography3:00

    We've already looked at 3 areas of Composition, now let's test the rest. Turn your photo's from good to great and make your images stand out and reflect what your minds eye sees.

  • Section Quiz

Requirements

  • Get a camera, old or new, the older the better. Try to get a Pentax K1000 if possible, its that good and reliable you'll leave it in your Will!

Description

Learn a dying art that is Film Photography. Learn the complicated in a simple way within the surroundings of your own home. Bring photography back to life and create timeless photos and steal back what digital has taken from you. Simply...learn how to take photos and make them from the vision of your eye to the print of your wall, and enjoy the process....Be part of the film revival!!!

Learn the very core and basics of Photography covering areas such as:

  • Aperture, Speed and ISO.
  • Composition - Rule of Thirds, Sweet Spots and Lines.
  • Settings for Portraits and Landscape shots.

Learn in an unrestricted way where practice and correcting mistakes takes priority over tedious dictations and perfection. This course will teach you the 'rules' and push you towards your personal and unique style of photography.

Have you never used a film camera? Not to worry, this course will guide you through everything from choosing a film to loading it within a film camera. You will also learn how to safely remove your film, store and create that film into negatives. Learn the magic of printing your very own print. It's a satisfying feeling when you see that image magically appear on that bit of paper after all the effort you've put in. It's even more satisfying when you see the quality of your work in broad daylight. We will cover:

  • Darkroom Equipment and Materials
  • Tips and techniques for ease of use and better results
  • Chemicals processes and preparations.

This course is instructed in a way that will allow the absolute beginner to start from scratch and operate a home lab not too different from a pro lab. Create results that have been used for over 100 years, become part of a dying breed and learn a skill. It's a skill you can easily learn, develop and pass on! Videos are accompanied with supplementary material in the form of a pdf guide. This will allow you to follow the actions of each lecture but also to follow a written guide for some finer details. Sometimes a 5 second video extract can say more than a paragraph in a guide, but a guide can create a definitive detail that would be boring and uninspiring to listen to in a video. With this course you have the best of both worlds and a choice as to which way you want to learn.

This course is based upon a 10 week practical learning basis. You can complete this course in an hour, but the aim is that you complete a lecture practice for a week, testing technique, then moving onto the next lecture. That way, you are giving yourself time to learn and experiment and not being bogged down with feeling pressured to move through the course at a pace that doesn't suit you. Please do your own research and change any areas that you do not agree with in this course. This course isn't a definitive guide, it's a guide to introduce you and hopefully expand your knowledge and thinking.

Take this course and you will open yourself up to a skill and expertise that is fast disappearing. You'd be surprised at the acknowledgement and comments you'll get when you have a film camera. Don't let a microchip control your photos and memories, put yourself in control and be your own artist.

Who this course is for:

  • Take this course if you want to learn a new skill
  • Take this course if you want to revive a 100 year art
  • Take this course if you want to improve and maximise your photography skills
  • Don't take this course if you like boredom and rules. This course is about learning the 'rules' and then breaking them!

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