Digital Photography Beginner Training

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Digital Photography I Move beyond hunting for digital photography tips and get a thorough training to learn digital photography today. In this online digital photography class, you'll learn how to take high-quality portfolio-ready portraits, products shots, indoor and outdoor location shoots, and even fast-action sports images.

Learn how photography techniques and enviornmental factors interact to create powerful, digital images. You'll learn how professionals approach the fundamentals of lighting, perspective, and set-up. After each assignment, you'll submit shots to your instructor and get feedback on your work. All photographs are evaluated for creativity and technique to help you create professional, high-quality shots.

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Class Projects and Objectives:

This online beginner course is packed with digital photography tips. Students will meet the following objectives:

• Develop an understanding of how a digital camera records light.
• Proof images with histograms, use white balance effectively, and choose ISO settings.
• Take photographs using different perspectives, white balances, and ISO settings.
• Develop an understanding of techniques for portrait photography, including lighting setups, head shots, environmental portraits, and interaction with the subject.
• Take portraits and environmental portraits in informal and informal styles.
• Develop an understanding of how prepare and shoot product photographs in different lighting and environmental conditions.
• Prepare and shoot a series of product photographs.
• Develop an understanding of techniques for shooting interior and exterior photographs of buildings.
• Produce interior and exterior photographs that differ in composition and perspective.
• Develop an understanding of techniques for action and sports photography.
• Utilizing different action techniques, take four photographs at a sporting event or other action photography scenario.
• Develop an understanding of how to plan and conduct a professional photo shoot.
• Plan and carry out a complete photo shoot, drawing lessons from the experience.

Class Instructor Bio: Ken Milburn is a professional photographer and leading expert in digital photography. Ken's photographic career has ranged from starlet publicity photos for Univeral Pictures, to album covers, advertising, and editorial work for the TV Guide and Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine. His work has been featured in Design Graphics Magazine and Computer Graphics World. Ken is the principal author of 20 computer and photography books including Digital Photography: Expert Techniques from O'Reilly Associates, and The Digital Photography Bible from Wiley and Sons, and several books on Photoshop techniques. Ken has has written more than 300 articles on digital media, featured in Publish, DV Magazine, MacWorld, Computer Graphics World, PC World, and InfoWorld. LEFT: Understand your camera first, then start taking great shots.