Photography: Master Your Camera - Master Your Creativity

Course details

Ifyou want to start taking better, more creative photos, this is theright course for you. During this course I'll teach you to understandyour camera so you can achieve more creative, satisfying results. Completing the course will take you longer than the 1.5 hours of video lessons because I've also included comprehensive assignments for each of the 20+ lessons. Each assignment will take at least half an hour, or more, depending on how much you want to put into it.

The videos are full of footage of me working, photographs we've taken, graphic overlays and animations all demonstrating what I am teaching. There's pages and pages of .pdf files accompanying the lessons with further information and assignments designed to help you put put it all into practice and gain experience. There's also a number of quizzes throughout the course so you can easily asses your own progress. And if you have questions, just ask me in the ask me in the Q&A section of the course.

In this course I'll teach you to take control of your camera and creativity the way I have - by using the Manual Mode on your camera. I find most people we teach in our workshops don't
know how their camera works or how they can really control it to create more interesting photographs. They've had their cameras set on one of the many auto modes and wonder why the results are not so pleasing.

Inthis course I'll teach you to understand the three ways ofcontrolling your exposure - using the aperture, shutter speed andISO so that you can be in control of how your photos look, ratherthan your camera being in control of the results. I'll demonstratehow to effectively use the exposure meter to capture images that lookthe way you want them to and I'll teach you techniques to use theaperture and shutter speed to achieve truly creative photographs.

Thiscourse is presented in a concise manner. We live busy lives andpersonally I prefer a course of teaching which is focused and clearto the points being made, rather one that contains little usefulinformation padded out to make the course seem of greater value thanit really is. The aim of delivering the teaching in short modules isso that those who do not understand the lesson the first time caneasily go back and watch the video again, read the accompanying PDFfiles and complete the assignments. This way you will learn throughmy teaching and your own experimenting, practice and experience.After all, if you do not pick up your camera frequently and practicewhat you are learning, you will not develop as a creativephotographer.

I do not use much camera jargon and keep my language simple so it's easy to understand if English is not your first language. I asked a Thai friend to check over some of the assignments as I was writing them to make sure they were easy enough to understand. As she read through them her main feedback was "This is much easier to read and understand than an academic text book." She could follow them through and understand without difficulty.

I've been a professional photographer since the 1980s, with a background as a photo journalist and freelancer covering everything from international sports events, corporate portfolios, weddings, travel and much more. My wife and I have taught 100's of people in the photo workshops we run in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I am a self taught photographer and teach from my many years of experience.