What you'll learn

Search geometry in the urban space
Shoot perfect portraits without wide-angle distortion
Process images professionally and quickly
Shoot moving subjects
Shoot in the evening and night hours
Select the best shooting angle
Use compositional techniques
Get rid of the excess in the frame
Shoot water
Skillfully use visual effects in the shooting
Telling stories through photography
Work firmly with exposition
Avoid common mistakes of mobile photography
Shoot stunning landscapes

Course content

5 sections • 52 lectures • 4h 42m total length

Entry6:20
Geometry. Theory5:09
Theoretical talks about geometry.
Geometry in the city9:48
Practicing of making geometric pictures. How the different lenses will make completely different photos from the same spot.
Feet of clay2:49
The sky, the clouds and the Neva1:56
Practicing to make a timelapse video from the embankment.
Shooting the bridge from the bridge8:33
How to make the best shot on the object that is full of geometry
Unmistakable perspective3:32
Perspective and exposure.
The importance of talking with the people you want to shoot. Using a fisheye lens.
Parking, which is actually a tower6:24
Practicing with different lenses. Adding semantic elements on the frame.
Lenses2:30
Lenses we use.

Portrait is religion2:52
Entry.
Eternal trinity: the time, the place, the action4:08
Entry for the portrait shooting.
Mobile photography. basic rules of a portrait shooting5:48
Theory and practice.
Shooting near the window6:38
Statics and dynamics2:34
Interesting shoot with the mirror, shooting a person in dynamic.
Create your own collection3:20
How to select the best photos.
Shadows of the Palace square5:37
Practicing slow shutter speed in a daytime on the street.
We wish we could but no3:17
Dynamic shoots with the complex light and composition.
Feeling the rhythm of Petersburg yards6:38
Shooting portraits on location. How to transform that location for your own needs.
A few important words about the portraits0:54

Expanding the boundaries. Peterhof, Kronstadt, The Gulf of Finland2:11
Entry. A little bit of philosophy.
Peterhof railway station8:14
Unsuccessful attempts to shoot perspective on a platform.
Unsuccessful shooting with the complex exposure and perspective.

Example of the unsuccessful wide angle shoot.
Person and a landscape3:47
How to emphasize the scene by adding a person. Foreshortening and expose selection according to your goal.
Peterhof as a source of inspiration2:54
Inspiration created by motion.

Practicing in creating slow motion videos.
Facing a perfect wall.8:34
Misty spirits of a tricky forest4:56
Creating a foggy scene via smoke bombs.
Kronstadt. From the lighthouse to the spider web - unpredictable paths6:46
Collaboration with the nature. Macro shots. How to choose the right foreshortening.
Summer on a seaside8:41
Shooting the water with the slow shutter speed. Making the portraits with the sunset light.
The importance of traveling. life on the way from point A to B2:46
Travel philosophy.
Moscow adventures7:07
Practicing the slow shutter speed on a location with a lot of people. Using light trail and motion blur.
Slow shutter speed. How to get rid of the people in a frame.
Moscow subway & beauty of the empty shopping center6:08
Slow shutter speed in a crowdy place.
Necessity of getting lost on the road. Favorite places and journeys3:28
Talks about favorite places.
Foggy Lenivets9:18
Playing with the space around us. Shooting on a sunset.

Working with the space around us. Shooting the portraits in a dark time with the simple lighting devices.
Through the misty substances6:55
Foggy landscape that was shot with the very poor light.
Good morning Lenivets12:17
How to correctly fit an object in a landscape. How to choose the correct foreshortening and lense. Tuning exposure to get spectacular pictures.

Shooting with the wide angle lense in an interesting construction.

Analyzing location. Building and staging the frame.
Shooting strange construction in the forest. Example of the complex exposure.

Tricky way to make beautiful defocus pictures in a macro mode.
Hidden paths9:57
Short story about curiosity that might help you find some hidden places

Creating a story by choosing a right camera angle

Nonstandard perception of a standard things. trying to look from the other side
Shy bumblebee and beautiful rotunda7:13
Interesting object in a interesting place. Adding person in frame.
It is time to stop, to move ahead3:40
Camera+5:20
Long exposure3:48

Color correction and enhancing1:20
From simple to complex6:41
Examples of good and bad exposure.
Black and white photos5:34
A few words about black and white photos.
Snapseed – editing via control points3:57
Сolor – is what we need7:43
Tuning the tones, analyzing the color.
Integrated solutions5:04
Selecting different filters for keeping or strengthening natural colors.
High-key and low-key lightings6:48
Styles of lighting. Correction.
Touch retouch6:21
Retouching tools.

Requirements

mobile phone with the camera
a strong desire to learn

Description

During the course you will learn how to work with the frame composition, how to choose the best shooting angle. We will show you how to create a perfect portraits, how to use special equipment and what is the most convenient soft for producing an images. We will inspire you for the new discoveries of unique and amazing places for shooting and at the end, you will become a wizard that can create and capture magic all around you with your mobile phone.

We think that Instagram and Mobile photography are the best and at the same time the easiest ways to translate information, feelings and emotions. This is a great opportunity to tell about yourself, about your job, about your journey, about everything that you care about.

Who this course is for:

Photographers who are trying to keep pace with European photographic art trends.
Bloggers who aim to have quality design of their articles and posts.
Travelers who want to travel light without carrying a heavy bag with camera and lenses.
People who want to learn mobile photography from the very beginning.

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Course content

Composition9 lectures • 47min

Exposure5 lectures • 26min

Portraits10 lectures • 42min

Travel20 lectures • 2hr 4min

Post-production8 lectures • 43min

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