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Basic Course: $25.00
with Certificate & CEUs: $50.00
This course covers all the basics you need to know to get the most out of your film or digital camera. Learn how to take great pictures. Learn how to correctly adjust your aperture settings, use the correct film speeds, how to adjust the exposure, what type of lighting you need for all situations, how to focus and zoom, and how to enhance your photos. Moreover, when you finish this course, you'll be more comfortable shooting stellar pictures on "manual" mode rather than keeping it on "auto" everything.
 
Photography 101 - take better pictures
Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions. This class has been officially reviewed by our Course Review Committee that scrutinizes course content and instructor participation. This course has received our Committee's highest rating: 4 stars.

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Continuing Education Units (CEU)
1.0 CEUs

Course Description

Are you tired of the pictures that have been coming out of your camera? Maybe everyone's eyes are half closed or perhaps there is always a shadow that makes everyone in the picture look like they have a beard. Maybe you want to take better pictures but just can't seem to click at the right time, in the right place to get what you want.

 

You are not alone. So many people want to take good, memorable pictures to capture their experiences but so few feel comfortable enough with their cameras to actually make it happen on a consistent basis.

 

What's great about Photography Basics is that its full of the stuff you've always wanted to know and there's nothing that you don't need to know. What that means is that you can have the assurance that you can go into this course with little or no knowledge of how your camera works and you'll come away with two things:

 

  •       Some knowledge on the actual function of your camera
  •    A lot of skills in the area of creating great photographs

 

So if you want technical jargon thats difficult to understand, this is not the course for you. If you want quality content that shows you step by step how you can make great pictures again and again and again, this is the course you want to take.

 

After all, why do you own your camera? Is it so you can say that you own a good camera? Or is it because you want to take great pictures? If you are ready to start clicking your way to unforgettable pictures, click here to begin!

 

This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.

Course Lessons

  1. Camera Basics- Lesson 1 - In this first lesson we will go over how all cameras work and the parts of the camera that you need to be aware of.
  2. Operating a Camera- Lesson 2 - This lesson will show that more than just pointing and clicking is required in order to take great pictures.
  3. Types of Film- Lesson 3 - This lesson will not only examine the different film types and the type you should use, but it also will explain the differences between digital cameras and film cameras (and reveal which one is actually better!)
  4. Exposure- Lesson 4 - What is exposure and how it will play a role in creating a great picture is discussed.
  5. Lighting- Lesson 5 - The importance of lighting for great picture taking is discussed.
  6. Choosing Lenses- Lesson 6 - Types of lenses and their impact on pictures, whether digital of regular, are explained.
  7. Enhancing Photographs- Lesson 7 - This lesson will reveal when and how to enhance your picture in some easy ways.
  8. Organizing the Picture- Lesson 8 - How to arrange your picture so that the picture in your mind will turn out to be the photograph that comes out of your camera.
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Additional Information

Course Title : Photography Basics
CEU Value : (Continuing Education Units)
Course Number : 30276
Course Type : How To
Course URL : http://photography.onlineclasses.com
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Instructor : Eric Thomas
Syllabus : View Syllabus
Duration : Continuous: Enroll anytime!
Course Fee :
Basic Course: $25.00
with CEUs & Certificate: $50.00
NOT FOR COLLEGE CREDIT
This is a non-credit course, and is provided for your personal enrichment. This course is not intended to be a substitute for any state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.
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