Understand what's going in your camera—one setting at a time. Learn how to control aperture, shutter speed, and ISO and improve your photography skills in this course.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- DSLR vs. DSLM
- Introduction to handling a camera
- How to carry a camera
- Walking and shooting
- Protect your lens
- Don't be a chimp!
- Do you see what I see?
- Introduction to stabilizing the camera
- Handheld shooting
- Stabilized shooting
- Introduction to modes
- Fully automatic
- Aperture priority
- Shutter priority
- Manual
- ISO (ASA)
- Introduction to real-world settings
- Changing aperture
- Changing shutter speed
- Changing ISO
- The Exposure Compensation dial
- Introduction to pushing camera buttons
- Depth-of-field preview
- Auto-exposure (AE) lock
- Autofocus modes
- Motor drive modes
- Metering modes
- White balance options
- Time lapse mode
- Panoramic mode
- Electronic vs. mechanical shutter
- Transfer photos to smartphone
- Introduction to controlling your auto focus
- Autofocus point selection control
- Focus peaking
- Introduction to flash
- The pop-up flash
- Size matters
- Introduction to changing your point of view
- Perspective
- Angle
- Detail
- Buying your gear
- Next steps
Taught by
Joseph "PhotoJoseph" Linaschke
