Secrets of Photography: Developing Your Eye

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Start by burning your camera manual. Forget everything you know about how your camera works. And start to view picture-taking in a new way. In this course, you will learn the basics of lighting to cropping and everything in between.

Photography experts from the New York Institute of Photography, the world's largest and longest running online photography school, show you how to take professional-quality photos with any camera. The secret, it's in your eye.

NYIP was just named one of the world's best online photography schools. Learn more about NYIP here.

Here are some stories shared by students who have taken one of NYIP's online photography courses (offered exclusively at www.nyip.edu)

• Lee Presnell, North Carolina:
  Since graduating from NYIP, Lee has been very busy! Lee is creating a calendar and a book for some local churches, shooting head shots for an author's autobiography, car and modeling shoots, and doing a number of photography sessions for the American Heart Association for one of their fundraisers. Lee has also been published twice in local newspapers including two front page photos. Lee also won 7 awards in photography contests.
  
  
• Karin Kunzova, Germany:
  Karin's photo series 'Road Trip' dealing with backpacking around the Australia outback was selected by Agathe Gaillard and published in Le Journal de la Photographie. Karin focuses on documentary photography which she says she finds challenging and fulfilling. She loves "working with people, studying different personalities and the way people live."