Photography: 10 Top Tips - Be More Creative with Your Camera

Learn about different types of light and to use your DSLR, mirrorless or compact camera on manual mode

Created byKevin Landwer-Johan

Last updated 7/2017

English

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

Course content

3 sections • 24 lectures • 47m total length

Welcome to 10 Top Tips - Be More Creative with Your Camera3:07
This is a short course to give you 10 Top Tips and explain why they will make you a better photographer. You will gain a fundamental understanding of your camera and how you can be more creative with your photography.
I love teaching people photography. My teaching is driven by my passion
and I love to see my student succeed! In everything I do I only seek to
be positively encouraging and motivating. I want you to be a better
photographer and enjoy using your camera. I have designed all my courses
with this aim.
About Equipment and Exercises1:00
What equipment is needed and about the supplemental resources what are provided with this course and how you can make best use of them.

Please Feel Free to Ignor the Review Request from Udemy0:14
Section 2 Introduction: Having a Deeper Relationship With Your Camera2:04
An outline of how knowing your camera more intimately by using its manual controls will free you up to be more creative with your photography. It's an introduction to how a few Top Tips about the Exposure Triangle, ISO, Aperture Control and Shutter Speed Control can greatly improve your photography.
Top Tip # 1 Be Intimate with the Exposure Triangle2:26
Explanation of the importance of understanding the camera settings - ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture - that control the amount of light affecting the camera's sensor to make a well exposed photograph.
Top Tip # 2 Keep Your ISO Low3:23
All about how the ISO setting affects the photograph and why it's good to keep your ISO as low as possible.
Top Tip #2 Exercise1:00
A practical exercise to help you understand about ISO.
Top Tip # 3 Set Your Shutter Speed4:12
Understanding how your shutter speed affects exposure.
Top Tip #3 Exercise1:00
A practical exercise to help you understand more about Shutter Speed settings.
Top Tip # 4 Open Your Aperture4:40
Understanding how your aperture setting affects exposure.
Top Tip #4 Exercise1:00
Top Tip # 5 Read The Light6:00
How to read the camera's exposure meter to enable you to set the camera correctly
Top Tip #5 Exercise1:00
A practical exercise to help you understand more about using your camera's exposure meter.
Section 2 Conclusion1:56
Review of the teaching in section 2
Ten Top Tips - Section 2 Quiz

Section 3 Introduction It's All About Light1:13
This section introduction will explain why it's so important to understand light. Photography means 'painting with light' - the more I understand about light the better photographer I can be.
Top Tip # 6 Open Your Eyes - See the Light4:37
Top Tip #6 Exercise1:00
A practical exercise to help you understand how our eyes see differently than how our cameras 'see'
Top Tip #7 Be Aware of High Contrast3:37
Following on from the previous lecture we look at light ratios and how they affect image making.
Top Tip #7 Exercise1:00
A practical exercise to help you understand more about the challenge of shooting in high contrast lighting situations.
Top Tip # 8 Shoot in Soft Light3:47
Lower contrast lighting situations are easier to get more satisfying result with your camera.
Top Tip # 9 Isolate You Subject4:11
Be more aware of your background, especially if it is brighter than your subject.
Top Tip #9 Exercise1:00
A practical exercise to help you understand how to isolate your subject from the background.
Top Tip # 10 Practice1:57
Our concluding lecture encourages students to always have their camera with them and to use it often.
Ten Top Tips - Section 2 Quiz
Bonus Tip0:18
If you've enjoyed this course no doubt you will be needing to edit your photographs. My new course Lightroom Digital Workflow will be of great benefit in helping you get a solid start to a healthy digital workflow.
I have not spent enough time or energy promoting my Lightroom Digital Workflow Course and I want to remedy this by offering you a discount coupon!
This course is a result of over 30 years work. It will teach you how to choose your best photos, discard the photos you will never use or look at again (and free up precious hard drive space) and give you some fundamental teaching on how to best edit your photographs.
I know many photographers really struggle to select and present their best work, but what are we doing if we don't share the best we do? Using my step by step selection method, which I started developing while working at the Auckland Star newspaper in the 1980s, will give your photography editing a tremendous boost. This course will help you build confidence in your photography ability because you will truly start to see your best images as you separate them from the rest ... and let's face it, we all take a lot of photos that we never want anyone else to see!

I love teaching people photography. My teaching is driven by my passion and I love to see my student succeed! In everything I do I only seek to be positively encouraging and motivating. I want you to be a better photographer and enjoy using your camera. I have designed all my courses with this aim.
Please check our website for discount offers on our courses, new blog posts, news about out mentoring program and other related information about learning photography.

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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

Photography: 10 Top Tips - Be More Creative with Your Camera

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Ten Top Tips Course Introduction2 lectures • 4min

Having a Deeper Relationship With Your Camera12 lectures • 29min

It's All About Light10 lectures • 23min

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