Beginner Photography Course
Our beginner photography course will help you understand the basics of light and how your eye fixes lighting. How to get your camera to catch what your eye sees to produce better pictures. The tutorials will also help you understand your camera and how to take pictures with it. Listed below are courses hand-picked to help you get started. Make a goal for yourself of when you will finish all the photography lessons.
LESSON: 1
Build a Resource Library for your Camera
Getting Started
In early days of photography, the process of taking images was considered a significant advancement of science. Early film cameras were rather primitive and relatively simple to use (if you knew how to operate them). Digital cameras have long since replaced film and the technology in today's DSLR's...
LESSON: 2
Light and The Photographer
Welcome to Photography Course #1
When it comes to light and photography, its helpful to understand some of the basic physics behind light and lenses. The word "photography" was created from the Greek roots (phōtos, phōs, and graphé) which together means "drawing with light". It is important to remember that light...
LESSON: 3
How to Buy a Camera
How to Buy a Camera (tips and advice)
Buying a new camera is a fun and exciting experience. As with most electronic products, digital camera technology improves every year. Competition between leading DSLR camera manufacturers like Nikon and Canon is hotter than ever, so if you're looking to buy a...
LESSON: 4
Understanding the Exposure Triangle
Exposure Triangle
If you want to take great photos, you need to understand exposure and the Exposure Triangle is the foundation of photography. If you're new to photography, you can get away with taking respectable pictures right out of the box using automatic settings. However, if you want to produce...
LESSON: 5
Understanding ISO Sensitivity
ISO
In our course on Understanding the Exposure Triangle, we spoke of the importance of light in photography and about controlling how much light gets exposed to the digital sensor in your camera to produce an image. You learned how ISO, along with the aperture setting and the shutter speed...
LESSON: 6
Introduction to Shutter Speed
What is Shutter Speed?
Shutter speed is the amount of time the shutter is open and a measurement of time. It's basically the timer for light coming into the camera. Shutter speed is the length of time the shutter curtain is open and light is exposed to the sensor. Shutter...
LESSON: 7
Introduction to Aperture
Aperture
In our course on Understanding the Exposure Triangle, we talked about the importance of light in photography and about controlling how much light gets exposed to the digital sensor in your camera to produce an image. You learned how ISO, along with the aperture setting and the shutter speed...
LESSON: 8
Flash Photography
Introduction to Flash Photography
Welcome to our introduction to flash photography. In order to learn how to use a flash, it will help a great deal to understand what a flash is and how it works. We’ll cover built-in or pop-up flashes and Speedlight’s or shoe-mount flashes that mount on the...
LESSON: 9
Compositional Rules in Photography (Start Here)
Compositional Rules
As a beginner photographer you must surely be looking at the images made by other photographers, people whose work you admire. Among the many things that you may no doubt notice you may also have noticed that somehow the compositions of these photographers tend to be a lot...
LESSON: 10
Photographic Lenses
Understanding Camera Lenses
Since optical designs of photographic lenses (wide angle to telephoto) differ so radically we will not go into detail about optics. This lesson will cover a basic discussion of lenses and some good tips on lens use and care. Lenses are designed to refract (bend) light rays....
