Online Photography Course: Learn Professional Photography

This class begins with an overview of photography in the modern era. Good photography comes from inspiration; this will get you thinking about what you can do with photography, new areas to explore, and how to get familiar with camera types.

Start making sense of camera terminology and the various modes on cameras. Get familiar with what cameras can do and how to make the most of yours so you can enjoy your photography quickly.

Explore different lens types, get to understand focal length, and how to get the most out of your current set up in Lesson 3.

In this photography class, you will learn how to improve photos instantly by gaining a basic understanding of composition and ideas on what to look out for.

Discover what shutter speeds are and how to use them creatively to capture motion — an important step to full control.

Lesson 6 will teach you what exactly apertures are and how to use them effectively to create depth — the next step to full control.

What is exposure and how does the camera measure light? In this photography lesson, you will learn how to snap the perfect picture every time. No more photos that are too dark or too bright!

In the last photography class of this module, you will put together everything you’ve learned previously to take full creative and technical control. Getting to fully manual is only the beginning, but it is the key to unlock your potential as a photographer.

In this photography lesson, you will learn about the camera’s histogram and why this is an essential tool for getting the correct exposure in any lighting condition. The beauty of this knowledge is that you won’t even have to look at the image on the screen to know that you have the right exposure.

This photography class takes your abilities to refine and control exposure even further. It will look at how spot metering can be used to meter different tones within your image, to identify how much light is being reflected from a variety of subjects and tones, and create the best exposure in any situation. Advanced knowledge of the tones in your scene will ensure that you will always create accurate and consistent images.

Having the skills and ability to use flash lighting in your photography is as important as being able to work with natural light. In this class, you will look at all of the various uses of flash in photography.

In this lesson, you will look at how light can be shaped and manipulated to give you much more control over how your subject is represented. You will look at different styles of lighting commonly used in studio photography and the correct setups to achieve them.

The ability to shoot images that are completely unprocessed on camera gives you complete control over image quality. Shooting in raw gives you greater control over exposure, tone, sharpness, and compression. This photography lesson will look at how using the camera raw processing software can give you much more creative capabilities, whilst maintaining the highest quality files possible from your camera.

Capturing dramatic black and white images requires a completely different thought process to shooting in colour. When shooting black and white images you focus much more on light, tone, and contrast. In this lesson, you will learn how to develop this new thought process and visual awareness for seeing and capturing pictures that will make stunning black and white images.

Converting images from colour into strong, dynamic black and white images is no easy task. In this photography lesson, you will learn how to manipulate colours in an image and create stunning tones and contrast when they are converted into black and white. This will ensure you are producing images that resemble the work of the traditional masters of black and white photography.

HDR photography allows the photographer to create images with increased dynamic range. The key to capturing successful HDR photos is preparation. In this lesson, you will learn how to properly set up for the HDR photo and how to bring it together to create a stunning final photo.

How many times have you captured a photo that you are proud of, only to view it closely afterward on a monitor and be disappointed that it is not sharp? This is a frequent occurrence for photographers, but there are steps that you can take to ensure the sharpest photos in any situation with any lens available to you. This photography class covers this in detail but also looks at other effects that you can achieve with lenses such as Bokeh.

Macro photography is the art of photographing small objects or insects, and it is a hugely popular area in photography. This lesson explores all things macro. You will look at all the options available for creating stunning macro photos, giving you a closer look at the world around you.

When all the hard work is done and your images are looking amazing, you will want them to look as good in print as they do on screen. This can often be the most frustrating part of the photographic process. In this class you will learn about colour management which is essential to ensure you have consistent colour, tone, brightness levels, and contrast from the camera all the way through the post-production stages, right up to the final print.