This course takes you from basic camera functions to advanced photography techniques. You’ll learn to shoot with confidence, control light, craft your visual story, and polish your images professionally.
Understanding camera types, lenses, and key parts
Introduction to exposure triangle: aperture, shutter, ISO
Choosing modes like Manual, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority
Setting up your first shot: metering, focus modes, white balance
Navigating your camera menu, drive modes, and settings
Using camera histograms, live view, and exposure compensation
Working with different lens accessories and filters
Customizing settings for portrait, landscape, and motion
Rule of thirds, leading lines, symmetry and balance
Depth and perspective: foreground, midground, background
Using negative space and minimalism in composition
Creative framing: reflections, frames within frames, layering
Working with natural light: golden hour, harsh midday, blue hour
Using artificial light: flash, studio strobes, continuous lights
Controlling contrast, shadow detail, and metering in tricky light
White balance, color casts, and fine-tuning in camera
Importing and organizing photos in Lightroom or Capture One
Basic adjustments: exposure, contrast, color correction
Cropping, straightening, and fine tuning
Exporting formats and resolutions for web, print, portfolio
Long exposure, star trails, light painting
High Dynamic Range (HDR) and blending multiple exposures
Panorama stitches, focus stacking, tilt-shift effects
Creative projects: macro, motion blur, abstract photography
Selecting and curating your strongest images
Presenting your work: galleries, social media posts, print
Getting and giving peer critique, iteration
Final project: personal themed series + instructor feedback





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