Master your DSLR camera and improve your photography skills in this comprehensive course covering essential techniques and principles for stunning photos.
This course is designed for DSLR beginners to help them understand basic photography principles. You'll learn how to master your camera settings, composition, and lighting, so you can take stunning photos without relying on AUTO mode!
Take dramatically better photos by learning the basic principles you need to master your DSLR camera
Most new DSLR camera owners use very little of the potential of their cameras. (DSLR = Digital Single Lens Reflex). The thought of moving off AUTO can be daunting. To really get creative control over your photos you need to grasp some basic photography principles - it's not 'rocket science' - but it is essential. This course is to fill that gap in knowledge so you can get into the more creative modes of your camera and start taking better photos. Over 4 Hours Training.
If this Course seems a little too Basic for you check out my Advanced Course for more Creative topics -Â EasyDSLR Digital Photography Course: Advanced
Recent Member Comment "I'm blown away with how much knowledge I'm retaining when I walk away from each video. It's exactly my learning style as I'm very much a visual person." Andy Rose UK
CHAPTER 1: Getting Started gives you an orientation of the course and introduces The Photo Triangle - which is the foundation that most of the concepts in this course rest on.
If you are totally new to DSLR cameras you can watch CHAPTER 2: DSLR Overview where I give you a quick tour of What a DSLR camera is, it's benefits and essential items in your DSLR kit.
The major portion of this course talks about the 3 Main points to a great photo - The Photo Triangle:
FRAME - compositon and perspective
LIGHT - Tonal values and color
FOCUS - what's in Focus
You can Download the Printable PDF version of the Photo Triangle in Chapter 1 to have on hand during the course.
Having a solid foundation is key to understanding how the settings interact to create a great photo. In this course I cover Composition, the 3 important settings affecting Exposure: ISO, Aperture, and Shutter Speed, White Balance, Focus and Depth of Field, Flash basics and Diffusers.
These are some of what you will Discover:
What Essential Items you need in your DSLR Kit
The Photo Triangle – my secret weapon to explaining the Basics
To Compose better Photos using the same Principles DaVinci, Botticelli, Van Gogh and many more used
How to use Auto Focus Points to create better Composition
What Crop Factor has to do with Framing your Subject
The importance of Lens Choice and Focal Length
Exposure and ISO and why it matters
How to get off AUTO
A powerful Tool - in your camera – that ensures perfect Exposure
How Aperture effects your photos
Creative use of Shutter Speed
2 causes of Motion Blur … how to ‘use them’ or ‘lose them’
Pan Method of enhancing Speed in your Photos
Introduction to Exposure Compensation and Bracketing
Why we need White Balance
What is Light Temperature … why it’s useful
Using White Balance Shift
How to set Custom White Balance
My Best Method for using Autofocus Points
Hybrid Auto/Manual Focus Method
What is Depth of Field
3 Main Effects on Depth of Field
How to Isolate your Subject
3 Main situations to use Flash … it’s not just for Night Shots
The best Tool for better Flash Photos
I am confident that you will be much more comfortable using your DSLR camera and will be taking better photos by the end of this course.
Give you an understandng of Basic Photography Principles
Give you an Overview on how DSLR cameras are used
By the end of the course you will understand your camera better, you will be off AUTO and taking dramatically better photos.
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Ken is the creator of the EasyDSLR Digital Photography Course. Ken setup a blog on digital photography in December 2010 and helped hundreds of new DSLR buyers with an eBook, "Digital SLR Buyer's Guide." After many questions from new DSLR buyers, Ken realized that a Basic DSLR course was needed to fill the gaps in photography knowledge required to get...
I learned so much from this course- thank you for teaching difficult concepts in a way I could understand. I also appreciated all of the examples you showed.
I would like to thank Ken for laying down a solid foundation in Basic DSLR Photography. The section on Flash was particularly inciteful. I look forward to catching up with Ken in the Advanced course in this series.
Yes, I found this course interesting for getting a better understanding of the principal basics in photography. Easy to follow and not overstretched.
There were parts I'm not so clear on. Overall, it's a great course especially when talking about shutter speeds. I need to test a few of the techniques to see if I really caught on to what he's teaching
This is my first time doing photography and I had no idea how much was involved! it's a little daunting but you have broken it down so that even simpletons like myself can give it a good go! thank you. :):) x
Very clear and very basic. His speech (or the speed of his speech) is very good. I appreciate the discussion on how he got started and the encouragement that we could do the same. I also like that this is for beginning photographers and for film photographers (like me) making the transition to a DSLR, which has too much crap in the User's Manual.
Instructor is very knowledgeable about the subject, does a great job explaining the subject. However, I feel lost needing a more basic course.
There is a tremendous amount of wonderful content in this course. The one section which falls short is the section about the different features of different levels of cameras. A more thorough explanation of the features prior to this section would help. Alternatively, a PDF file that one could reference while watching this section would be helpful. Overall, I learned a lot and am pleased with the course.
This guy is not engaging at all. He lost me with in the first hour. Second half was slightly more engaging the more he showed you the work.
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Anthony W.
He’s an easy to learn teacher, he stays on the subject and doesn’t go off the main points. After all that’s why I got the course to learn about the basics of DSLR cameras