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Who is this course for?

This course is for those looking to learn the art of photography or sharpen the skills they already have, regardless of their past experiences.

First-Time Camera Owners

You are in the right place! Every module will teach you new skills, so that your theoretical knowledge and your ability to create life-changing images develops as fast as possible!

On-and-Off Camera Users

Whether you’ve been taking photos for a few years, or a few decades, you’ll be inspired by the way we add to your foundational knowledge; by learning new techniques and discovering whole new worlds of photography you didn’t know existed.

Dedicated Photographers

Aside from improving your technical knowledge, our main aim is to get you to take whole new types of photos you have never taken before. Get ready to be challenged, and to have your eyes opened to new possibilities!

Hear the first class from Kevin LJ, our Master Photographer, whose teachings have launched hundreds of successful photography careers!

How will this course help you succeed

Gain a solid understanding of your camera and how to control it

Build up your camera-operating speed and accuracy with every challenge

Recognize different types of light to create photos with feeling

Compose your photographs confidently

Know the best time to take your photos

Learn to work in any situation; with use of natural lighting or flash

Understand and learn to adapt many different styles of photography, including:

Portraits

Landscape

Street

Products and still life

Low light and night

Sports and action

Course Overview

13 Modules / 402 Lessons

Getting to Know Your Camera

1.1 How Your Camera Makes a Photograph

Watch demo

1.2 How To Hold Your Camera

Watch demo

1.3 Setting Your Diopter

1.4 Using RAW and/or JPEG

1.5 JPG Image Size/Quality

1.6 basic controls explained- Exposure and Focus

1.7 Make sure it's sharp

1.8 What To Focus On

1.9 What's the right exposure? Under, over, where you meter from

1.10 Using your camera monitor or viewfinder

1.11 Introduction to the Exposure Triangle

1.12 Exposure modes - M,A,S,P etc

1.13 Aperture Priority

1.14 Shutter Priority

1.15 Program

1.16 Scene Modes

1.17 Using Exposure Compensation - Increasing Exposure

1.18 Using Exposure Compensation - Decreasing Exposure

1.19 How to Avoid Using Exposure Compensation

1.20 Intro to Manual Mode

1.21 Light and how we see differently than our cameras

1.22 Setting The Metering Mode

1.23 Hard Light - High Contrast

1.24 Soft Light - Low Contrast

1.25 Low Light Limitations

1.26 Histogram and Blinkies

1.27 Depth of Field - How your lens and it's settings can affect sharpness

1.28 movement - subject and camera

1.29 Did you fill the frame?

1.30 How was your timing?

Understanding Your Camera Better

2.1 Multi Point Auto-Focus

2.2 Single Point Auto Focus

2.3 Single Servo Focus

2.4 Continuous Servo Focus

2.5 Manual Focus

2.6 What ISO is and How It Works Part 1

2.7 What ISO is and How It Works Part 2

2.8 Auto ISO

2.9 Understanding Photography ‘Stops’

2.10 An Introduction To What Shutter Speed is and How It Works

2.11 What Shutter Speed is and How It Works - Part 2

2.12 Introduction to Aperture

2.13 More About Aperture

2.14 Bracketing

2.15 Single or Burst mode

2.16 Front Light

2.17 Back Light

2.18 Side Light

2.19 Using your monitor to review your photos. What to look for

2.20 understanding the info displays

2.21 Histograms

2.22 how the exposure meter works

2.23 Dynamic range

2.24 distracting bright areas

2.25 DOF - what and why

2.26 Managing Moving Subjects

2.27 white balance

2.28 More About RAW Files

2.29 jpg adjustments in camera

2.30 EXIF Data

2.31 Reviewing Your Photos on Your Computer

Lenses and Composition

3.1 Different Focal Lengths

3.2 Primes and Zooms

3.3 Widest aperture and what it means

3.4 Zoom with Your Feet

3.5 Kit Lens Medium/Standard

3.6 Wide

3.7 Telephoto

3.8 Macro

3.9 Fill the frame

3.10 Vertical, Horizontal or tilt

3.11 Find a Clear Center of Interest

3.12 Rule of Thirds

3.13 Leading lines

3.14 Horizontal Lines

3.15 Composition - Vertical Lines

3.16 Composition - Diagonal Lines

3.17 Composition - Converging Lines

3.18 Composition - Curved Lines

3.19 Composition Squares, Rectangles and Triangles

3.20 Composition Circles and Ovals

3.21 Symmetry

3.22 Patterns

3.23 Eye Central

3.24 Isolate Your Subject

3.25 Isolate your subject using light known as figure to ground.

3.26 Isolate your subject using DOF

3.27 Control Your Depth of Field

3.28 Isolate your subject using POV

3.29 Shape and Form

3.30 Negative Space

Lenses and Composition #2

4.1 What lens to choose

4.2 Composition with wider lens

4.3 Composition with a medium lens

4.4 Composition with a long lens

4.5 Don't only take the first angle you think of, or the second

4.6 reflections and shadows in compositions

4.7 Reflections, good and bad

4.8 Point of View Middle

4.9 Point of View - Low

4.10 Point of View - High

4.11 Crop Hard

4.12 Crop Loose

4.13 Use Frames

4.14 Foreground Interest

4.15 Be Aware of the Background

4.16 Think Square

4.17 Making 2D photos

4.18 Balance the elements in your frame

4.19 Making Photos with depth

4.20 Juxtaposition

4.21 POV Control your lines (VT Lesson 20)

4.22 Leading the Eye (The Photographers Mind page 109)

4.23 DOF distance ratios

4.24 DOF Deep

4.25 DOF Shallow

4.26 DOF wide lens

4.27 DOF medium lens

4.28 DOF tele lens

4.29 Bokeh (Visual Dictionary page 41)

4.30 Filters - UV, polarize, ND

Introducing Manual Mode Photography

5.1 Step #1.40 Monitor Review to Determine Exposure

5.2 Metering

5.3 read the light from middle grey

5.4 1/13 Looking at Your Camera's Exposure Meter. Manual Exposure Setting Part 01

5.5 1/14 Manual Exposure in Soft Light - Manual Exposure Setting Part 02

5.6 1/15 Manual Exposure in Hard Light - Manual Exposure Setting Part 03

5.7 Manual Exposure night

5.8 1/16 Dynamic Range - Manual Exposure Setting Part 04

5.9 Step #2.15 Manual Exposure. Averaged Metering

5.10 Step #2.16 Manual Metering Spot Meter

5.11 Step #2.17 Manual Metering Center Weighted Meter

5.12 Learning to choose the best metering mode

5.13 Using a combination of averaged and spot metering

5.14 Being more precise - Using a combination of averaged and spot metering

5.15 Bracketing

5.16 Understanding how your histogram can give you confidence in your exposure

5.17 Manual exp and histogram

5.18 about the zone system

5.19 exposure triangle

5.20 Aperture

5.21 SS

5.22 ISO

5.23 Understanding Stops

5.24 When Manual mode is Essential - back light, high contrast etc

5.25 Exposure for Color

5.26 Deciding What You Want

5.27 Understanding what you are looking at.

5.28 Correct Exposure

5.29 Expose for mood, not information

5.30 Your choice

Understanding Light, tone and contrast

6.1 Light and Tone

6.2 Zone system

6.3 Considering composition in relation to tonal range

6.4 Shadows

6.5 Highlights

6.6 Contrast

6.7 High key, low key

6.8 Low Key

6.9 High Key

6.10 Lens flare

6.11 lens flare use

6.12 Silhouette

6.13 translucent subjects

6.14 Light/Time of Day effect on tone range

6.15 Hard Light/High Contrast

6.16 Soft Light/Smooth tones

6.17 Squint Your Eyes to see bright areas

6.18 More on what our eyes see and how our cameras are different

6.19 Dynamic range

6.20 HDR

6.21 more about Metering modes

6.22 Expose for black and white

6.23 Backlighting

6.24 Exposure reading for backlighting

6.25 More about Exposure

6.26 Exposing for predominantly light (white) scenes

6.27 Exposing for predominantly dark (black) scenes

6.28 Color Contrast

6.29 How light affects Color Saturation

6.30 Using light and tone to create feeling

6.31 Using tone and contrast as graphic elements (shapes) in your photos.

Using Flash, constant lights and reflectors

7.1 On camera flash

7.2 Off camera flash

7.3 bounce flash

7.4 bare flash

7.5 soft box flash

7.6 snoot flash

7.7 Balancing for flash - using flash with ambient light not just when it's dark

7.8 TTL or Manual flash?

7.9 Red Eye Reduction

7.10 Flash setting options

7.11 More than one Flash

7.12 Surface appearance

7.13 Angle of Light

7.14 Distance of light from subject

7.15 Revealing Texture

7.16 Making the most of direct reflection

7.17 Understanding color temperature

7.18 Hard and Soft light revisited

7.19 Light vs Lighting

7.20 When to use a Flash

7.21 When to Use a Constant Light

7.22 When to use a reflector

7.23 Which surface of a reflector is best?

7.24 Limitations of LEDs comapared to flash

7.25 Strengths of LED over flash

7.26 Flash and reflector together.

7.27 Direction of Added light

7.28 How much light do you want to add?

7.29 Front and Rear Sync

7.30 What you can use as a make shift reflector

7.31 Using a reflector to block the light

Low Light Photography & Slow Shutter Speed Photography

8.1 When to change your ISO

8.2 How high to set your ISO

8.3 Why not to use Auto ISO

8.4 Set noise reduction on your camera

8.5 Choice - ISO or Slower Shutter Speed?

8.6 Freeze and Blur

8.7 Using a tripod

8.8 Not using a tripod 1 - ALWAYS USE BURST MODE TO TAKE 3 or more photos

8.9 Not using a tripod 2

8.10 Not using a tripod 3

8.11 Self Timer/Cable/App Release for extra stability

8.12 Check your histogram

8.13 Motion – walking

8.14 Motion – vehicle night

8.15 Motion – vehicle day

8.16 Panning

8.17 Matching shutter speed with motion speed 1

8.18 Matching shutter speed with motion speed 2

8.19 Using the BULB setting

8.20 Intentional camera movement

8.21 Composing in low light (dark areas)

8.22 Be aware of super bright highlights

8.23 Manage Your White balance

8.24 Experiment with White balance

8.25 Use High ISO to help stop motion - subject and camera shake

8.26 Use fast lenses

8.27 High ISO and detail influenced by noise

8.28 Photographing moving vehicles - light trails

8.29 The Blue 'Hour' Technique

8.30 Make the same picture in the day and in the night (and evening)

Color and Black and White

9.1 Importance of color

9.2 Color Relationships

9.3 Playing with color

9.4 Know when and why to convert to black and white

9.5 Thinking (seeing) in Black and White

9.6 How colors render in black and white

9.7 Complimentary colors

9.8 monotone color

9.9 Warm Colors

9.10 Cool Colors

9.11 Saturated

9.12 De-Saturated

9.13 How color can affect emotional focus

9.14 How light affects color

9.15 Light Temperature

9.16 How low light affects color and contrast

9.17 How hard light affects color and contrast

9.18 Alternative WB

9.19 Lightroom

9.20 Plug ins

9.21 High contrast black and white

9.22 Low contrast black and white

9.23 Black and white for enhanced emotional focus

9.24 High Contrast Color

9.25 Low contrast color

9.26 Select one color to photograph

9.27 Isolating a single color

9.28 Make a Series with unifying color consistency

9.29 Limit your palette

9.30 Maximize your palette

Look - Think - Click

10.1 How to see better pictures

10.2 Anticipating the photo you want

10.3 Explore the subject

10.4 Knowing your camera so well you don't have to think consciously about every setting

10.5 Be Patient

10.6 consider the light

10.7 Seeing reflected light

10.8 Adding reflected light

10.9 Shutter modes – Burst/Single

10.10 Distances from camera to subject and background

10.11 Choosing a background

10.12 Isolate your subject with contrast. Dark bg

10.13 Isolate your subject with contrast. Light bg

10.14 Isolate your subject with controlled DOF

10.15 Isolate Through Composition choice

10.16 Point of View - Where are you taking photos from?

10.17 manipulate the scene - move things you don't want in your photo

10.18 Stay with the situation

10.19 Composition - Fill the frame

10.20 Timing

10.21 Exposure/Light

10.22 Color/Tone

10.23 Relationship

10.24 Take Lots of Photos

10.25 Photograph with Both Eyes Open

10.26 Step Outside Your Comfort Zone

10.27 Point of View and Timing. Frame it and wait

10.28 Observe and get a feel for a location

10.29 Incorporate Photography into Your Schedule

10.30 Revisit Locations and Subjects

Developing Your Photographic Style

11.1 Know what you love and photograph it - Concentrate

11.2 Plan a series - so you can see your style evolve

11.3 Concentrate on Subject

11.4 Mood, not information

11.5 Information, not mood

11.6 Your style will be crafted with intuition - concentrate on knowing a subject you love

11.7 Choice about exposure

11.8 Choice about composition

11.9 Choice about light

11.10 Choice about contrast

11.11 Color

11.12 Choice about Concept

11.13 Analyze - what you did yesterday, all or last week

11.14 Decide the how you want to portray your subject and stick to this.

11.15 Study the styles of others who have strong style

11.16 Make lists of techniques to try so people can discover what they like.

11.17 Saturation

11.18 Photojournalistic

11.19 simple

11.20 emotional

11.21 silhouettes

11.22 Finding your Favorite Lens

11.23 100mm

11.24 50mm

11.25 35mm

11.26 24mm

11.27 Flash use

11.28 Try different, uncomfortable subjects, to see what will happen

11.29 Mention Post Processing Somewhere

11.30 Photograph something you have never photographed before

11.31 Photography is something you always enjoy photographing and do it differently. Lens, technique, at night etc

Photography Project - Making a Narrative Photograph and Edit

12.1 What Project is best for you?

12.2 Who's your target audience?

12.3 Plan your month

12.4 Beginning Your Story

12.5 Wide

12.6 Medium

12.7 close up

12.8 soft light

12.9 hard light

12.10 black and white

12.11 color

12.12 one predominant color

12.13 beginning

12.14 middle

12.15 end

12.16 Culling and looking forward

12.17 hero photos

12.18 Mood / atmosphere / feeling

12.19 composition continuity

12.20 style/continuity

12.21 What's your goal for your project?

12.22 Plan your project

12.23 What's your intent?

12.24 Look for what catches your attention.

12.25 Look for patterns and repetitions

12.26 Copy the style of your favorite photographer or movie director

12.27 Deadline - how long will it take

12.28 How will you share your project

12.29 Express your experience

12.30 Add captions - make it even more personal

Portraits in Natural Light (Bonus module)

1. Choose your lens focal length

2. Prime or Zoom

3. Close up or environmental

4. Watch your shutter speed

5. Relate to your subject

6. Aim for Natural Expression

7. direct your subject

8. Sitting or Standing?

9. The Landscape Portrait

10. Move around your subject, check the background

11. Crop Carefully (not too much headroom)

12. DOF Shallow

13. DOF Deep

14. Look for great light (S Kelby Vol 3 #106?)

15. Reading the light

16. Shade

17. Overcast

18. Dappled Light

19. Sunlight

20. Backlighting

21. Introduce Lens flare

22. Reflectors

23. Catchlights

24. Using Window Light (S Kelby vol 2 #88)

25. Light for Mood

26. Use props

27. Dark Background

28. Light Background

29. Get Your Model Moving

30. Fill Flash

31. Rear Curtain Sync

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I thought I knew a fair amount about photography, that is until I took my camera off auto shoot mode. Then I found out very quickly that I had no clue what most of the settings on my camera were really for. It was not until I started taking Photography 365 that I really started to learn how to really use my camera. It does not seem to matter what model of the camera each student has, we are all learning about our own cameras and equipment. This is evident by the great improving images that the class community chooses to share in the course newsfeed. I had never really considered an online photography course before but instead had opted over the years to try to learn on my own. Even though I read and re-read, especially about aperture and f-stops, I just could never really grasp these concepts. Therefore, I could not apply them in a consistent or practical way in my photos. After finding myself with more time available this past year, I decided to gift myself with this online course. I have been trying for years to achieve more professional-looking shots. Yes, I have taken some great shots, but to master the technical aspects so that I could repeat them again, was not in my comfort zone. Even though I have only been taking this class for a few months, I have already learned so much! The instructor, Kevin has spent his life as a career photographer. He is highly informative, patient, and helpful as he imparts his knowledge in a self-paced class format that is easy to understand, including the harder concepts, and through daily lessons. The course integrates previously learned concepts into the new materials to increase your knowledge as you advance through the lessons. You receive individual feedback as needed to help you grow your skills. There is so much more I can now do with my camera and lenses than I thought possible. I am now the one in control of what my camera does. It is so much more than just an expensive point-and-shoot. I have rejuvenated my love for photography! I do not usually write reviews, but this course is a real bargain that I highly recommend. Thank you, Kevin, for a great course!

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About the course

There are 12 modules included in the 365 Days of Photography Course. More modules covering advanced topics will be added at a later date.

Each lesson is short, only 5 minutes or less. With each lesson, there is a challenge that can take as little as 10 minutes or as long as you have to spend on it.

Any camera that you can control the exposure manually. This is most cameras available today but excludes the most basic compact cameras that only operate automatically.

Lessons are all pre-recorded. As part of the course, you have access to a group forum where you can interact with others taking the course to share photos and discuss your experiences.

Yes, you can meet them online in the course forum.

You can start the course whenever you like. It’s available 24/7 365.

You can view each lesson, one per day, at any time of day, but only one new lesson every 24 hours.

Payment for the course is required before you can join and begin the lessons.

You will have access to one lesson per day. If you skip one or more days, those lessons will be available to you. So, if you’re away for a weekend and miss a couple of lessons on Saturday and Sunday, you can do three lessons on Monday to catch up.

Each lesson has a specific focus on one aspect of photography. Lessons are in video format with photos and animations to illustrate the teaching. Modules will at times have groups of lessons covering more complex topics. Each lesson has an accompanying Challenge that includes a practical photography exercise so each day you can put into practice what you are learning.

You will need a computer or tablet to review your photos. A tripod will help in some of the lessons but is not essential if you don’t have one.

Yes, you will earn a certificate of completion at the end of the course.

Yes. From time to time, Photography Course will release extra material exclusive to students of the 365 Days of Photography Course.

Lessons will play on any device capable of playing videos. This includes smartphones, tablets, PC’s and Mac’s.

No. This course is designed for beginners and those new to photography who want to learn the essentials, step by step in bitesize lessons.

You can watch one lesson per day. If you miss one or more days, these lessons will become available to you and you can watch them in any order you like. However, we recommend you watch them in sequence as they are published as the course builds on previous lessons.

Yes, you can watch each lesson as many times are you like. The lessons are short and concise so if you need to review the information it will not take much time.

The course consists of lessons presented in video format. Each lesson is accompanied by a Challenge. The challenges are also presented in video format and each one has an accompanying PDF file. There are example photos, graphics, and animations throughout to clearly illustrate the teaching.

This course is available anywhere you have an internet connection. The teaching and challenges are relevant internationally.

All of the lessons are subtitled in English. Kevin teaches in clear, easy-to-understand language and avoids using jargon wherever possible. However, subtitles may make it easier for some people to understand, so we’ve included them.

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