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Photography Courses for Beginners

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5 Excellent Photography Courses for Beginners

Are you a new to photography? One of the best ways to develop your skills is to take an online photography course. Learn the basics you need with our recommended Photography Courses for Beginners.

Here are some popular beginner photography courses to get you started.

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Photography Courses for Beginners

Introduction To Photography

What you’ll learn

  • Exploring cameras and lenses
  • Understanding media
  • Controlling exposure
  • Composing with autofocus
  • Shooting portraits
  • Understanding form and geometry
  • Exporting and editing digital images

Photography Courses for Beginners

Photography 101

What you’ll learn

  • Adjusting aperture, shutter speed, and ISO
  • Controlling autofocus
  • Using buttons to change focus, metering, and shooting modes
  • Carrying a camera like a pro
  • Stabilizing the camera
  • Working with flash
  • Thinking creatively and changing your point of view
  • Buying new gear


Photography Courses for Beginners

Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 1)

What you’ll learn

  • What is exposure?
  • Modern camera anatomy
  • Shutter, aperture, and ISO
  • Light metering
  • Changing shutter speed and aperture
  • Exposure compensation
  • Light meters
  • Autofocus

Photography Courses for Beginners

Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 2)

What you’ll learn

  • Shooting sharp images
  • Assessing your camera’s high ISO options
  • How aperture affects depth of field
  • Lens speed
  • Previewing depth of field
  • Depth of field in the real world
  • Manual mode
  • Controlling motion
  • Shooting raw
  • Shooting with post-production in mind


Photography Foundations: Composition

What you’ll learn

  • Looking versus seeing
  • Understanding when and why to use black and white
  • Analyzing lines
  • Arranging the elements into lines and shapes
  • Working with perspective and symmetry
  • Changing focal length, camera position, and depth
  • Dividing rectangular frames into thirds
  • Weighting the corners in square pictures
  • Composing photographs of people
  • Composing landscape photos
  • Working with light: direction, texture, and negative space
  • How to shoot color
  • Guiding the viewer’s eye
  • Controlling depth
  • Improving composition in post-production

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