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Essential Camera Techniques
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Introduction 05 minLesson1.1
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About the Course 30 minLesson1.2
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Video – The Camera – an Introduction 30 minLesson1.3
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Video – 4 Key Things You Need to Take Photographs 30 minLesson1.4
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Flash or No Flash? 30 minLesson1.5
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Get to Know Your Equipment 30 minLesson1.6
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The Manual 30 minLesson1.7
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Practical activity – playing around with your camera 30 minLesson1.8
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Video – Aperture part 1 30 minLesson1.9
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How to hold your camera 30 minLesson1.10
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RAW versus JPEG 30 minLesson1.11
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The Camera
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The Front 30 minLesson2.1
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The Back 30 minLesson2.2
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Lenses – focal lengths 30 minLesson2.3
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Scene modes 30 minLesson2.4
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Shooting modes – understanding the dial/symbols 30 minLesson2.5
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Drive modes 30 minLesson2.6
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Video – Parts of the Camera 30 minLesson2.7
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The Control Panel 30 minLesson2.8
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Video – Origins of the camera – the Camera Obscura 30 minLesson2.9
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Animation – How light passes through a camera 01 minLesson2.10
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Video – Genius of Photography #1 45 minLesson2.11
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Dangers of the built in flash 30 minLesson2.12
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Reference – tips for setting your camera up 30 minLesson2.13
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Reference – memory cards 30 minLesson2.14
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Focusing
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Focusing 30 minLesson3.1
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Practical activity 30 minLesson3.2
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Review questions 30 minLesson3.3
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Focusing Modes 30 minLesson3.4
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Video – Focusing 30 minLesson3.5
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Making sure your photos are sharp 30 minLesson3.6
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Exposure
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What is exposure? 30 minLesson4.1
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The Exposure Triangle 30 minLesson4.2
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ISO 30 minLesson4.3
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Practical activity – ISO 30 minLesson4.4
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Reference – ISO 30 minLesson4.5
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Aperture – Overview 30 minLesson4.6
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Video – Aperture – Introduction to Depth of Field 30 minLesson4.7
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Aperture Priority Shooting Mode 30 minLesson4.8
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Reference – f-stops 30 minLesson4.9
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Video – Aperture 30 minLesson4.10
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Practical Activity – Aperture 30 minLesson4.11
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Video – Shutter Speed 30 minLesson4.12
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Shutter Speed Priority Mode 30 minLesson4.13
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Video – Shutter Speed 30 minLesson4.14
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Practical Activity – Shutter Speed 30 minLesson4.15
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Reference – Freezing a fast moving object 30 minLesson4.16
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Revision – Shutter Speed 30 minLesson4.17
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Light Meter 30 minLesson4.18
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Metering Modes 30 minLesson4.19
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Reference – metering modes 30 minLesson4.20
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Exposure Indicator 30 minLesson4.21
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Video – Light Meter & Exposure Indicator 30 minLesson4.22
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Practical Activity – Light Meter and Exposure Indicator 30 minLesson4.23
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Exposure Value 30 minLesson4.24
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Over/Under Exposure 30 minLesson4.25
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Histogram 30 minLesson4.26
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Reference – the histogram 30 minLesson4.27
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Reference – common histogram shapes 30 minLesson4.28
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Difficult Lighting Conditions 30 minLesson4.29
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Landscape exposure 30 minLesson4.30
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Low light 30 minLesson4.31
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Backlight 30 minLesson4.32
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Video – Exposure Compensation 30 minLesson4.33
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Practical Activity – Exposure Compensation 30 minLesson4.34
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Exposure Compensation 30 minLesson4.35
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Review questions – light meter 30 minLesson4.36
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Reference – lighting 30 minLesson4.37
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Shooting Modes 30 minLesson4.38
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Video – Manual Mode 30 minLesson4.39
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Practical Activity – Manual Mode 30 minLesson4.40
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Troubleshooting in Manual Mode 30 minLesson4.41
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Review questions – Manual Mode 30 minLesson4.42
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Lenses
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Parts of the Lens 30 minLesson5.1
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Review questions 30 minLesson5.2
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Reference – Shutter Speed table 30 minLesson5.3
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Reference – When to use different shutters speeds 30 minLesson5.4
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Lenses in General 30 minLesson5.5
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Focal Length 30 minLesson5.6
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Focal Length Examples 30 minLesson5.7
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Reference – focal length and field of view 30 minLesson5.8
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Compression 30 minLesson5.9
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Compression Examples 30 minLesson5.10
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When To Use Different Focal Lengths 30 minLesson5.11
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Cropped Sensor Cameras 30 minLesson5.12
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Zoom Lenses 30 minLesson5.13
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Prime Lenses 30 minLesson5.14
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Specialist Lenses 30 minLesson5.15
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Depth of Field
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What is Depth of Field? 30 minLesson6.1
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Review questions – depth of field 30 minLesson6.2
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Background blur 30 minLesson6.3
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Depth of Field Examples 30 minLesson6.4
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Different Approaches 30 minLesson6.5
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Deep Depth of Field 30 minLesson6.6
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Reference – wide vs narrow aperture 30 minLesson6.7
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Reference – different uses of depth of field 30 minLesson6.8
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Reference – creating shallow depth of field with any camera 30 minLesson6.9
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Camera Settings
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RAW versus JPEG? 30 minLesson7.1
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Next Steps 30 minLesson7.2
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File Quality 30 minLesson7.3
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White Balance 30 minLesson7.4
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Reference – white balance 30 minLesson7.5
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Drive Mode 30 minLesson7.6
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Graduating from Auto 30 minLesson7.7
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Reference – image sizes for social media 30 minLesson7.8
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Composition
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Horizon lines, rule of thirds, movement, leading lines 30 minLesson8.1
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Using frames, patterns and points of interest 30 minLesson8.2
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Colour, depth of field, balance, image flow 30 minLesson8.3
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Symmetry, rule of odds, negative space, geometry 30 minLesson8.4
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The psychology of composition 30 minLesson8.5
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Rule of odds versus rule of symmetry 30 minLesson8.6
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Rule of thirds and golden section/ratio 30 minLesson8.7
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Rule of space 30 minLesson8.8
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Using patterns and lines 30 minLesson8.9
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Using frames 30 minLesson8.10
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Portrait photography
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Planning portrait photographs 30 minLesson9.1
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Using natural light – indoors 30 minLesson9.2
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Using natural light – outside 30 minLesson9.3
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Reference – head shot posing guide 30 minLesson9.4
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Photographing groups 30 minLesson9.5
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Photographing women 30 minLesson9.6
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Photographing men 30 minLesson9.7
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Reference – styled portrait posing guide 30 minLesson9.8
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Cropping portraits 30 minLesson9.9
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Video – capturing and editing portraitsLesson9.10
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Landscape/outdoor/macro photography
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Reference – landscape photography 30 minLesson10.1
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Landscape photography checklist 30 minLesson10.2
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Landscape photography guide 30 minLesson10.3
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Macro 30 minLesson10.4
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Night 30 minLesson10.5
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Water 30 minLesson10.6
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Birds 30 minLesson10.7
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Sunsets 30 minLesson10.8
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Reference – times of day for shooting outdoors 30 minLesson10.9
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Reference – golden hour 30 minLesson10.10
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Reference – blue hour 30 minLesson10.11
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Video – capturing and editing landscapesLesson10.12
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Glossary
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Glossary 30 minLesson11.1
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Editing
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Lightroom Guide 03 hour 20 minLesson12.1
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Lightroom Edits to Correct Poor LightingLesson12.2
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Retouching using PhotoshopLesson12.3
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Editing Black and White PhotographsLesson12.4
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Critical Studies
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History of Photography videos 30 minLesson13.1
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Using Flash, Modifiers and Editing
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The basics of flash using simple equipmentLesson14.1
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More detailed explanation of flash and equipmentLesson14.2
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Using flash outdoorsLesson14.3
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Dealing with different lighting situationsLesson14.4
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DIY Light ModifiersLesson14.5
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DIY studioLesson14.6
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Light toolsLesson14.7
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Black and White – Developing TechniquesLesson14.8
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