Smile! 11 free online photo courses to learn from home
Everyone can take a photo; Is a simple matter of focusing with the camera (or mobile) and shooting. But making a good photo is not so easy; It is about going a little further, to know the basic aspects of composition and light, as well as the elementary functions of the camera: aperture, shutter speed and ISO.
Luckily, now you do not have to buy heavy photography manuals or sign up for an academy to go to class. It is enough that you have interest to learn, a free time and desire to practice with your camera, and you can aim without problems to any of these courses of free photography to study through the Internet. More comfortable, impossible!
TheWeb’s Photo Course
We begin the list with the free online course of TheWebFoto, a page specialized in photography courses. This course goes through the basic concepts to help beginners to enter the world of photography, as well as to solve conceptual doubts. The course consists of three sections and reviews all elements of this artistic expression, from types of cameras to accessories, passing through focal length, sensor, composition or measurement of light. It can also be downloaded in PDF format.
Lectures on Digital Photography
This course is somewhat special, since it is a course taught Marc Levy, his teacher, taught several times at Stanford Universityand even at Google. Now you have also decided to share it online so that you can reach students from all over the world. The complete course covers all aspects of photography, from the artistic, scientific and technical perspective, along 18 lessons that you can follow at your own pace.
Learn to take photos in 31 days
This free online dZoom photography course is meant to be completed in a month. For this, it has 31 deliveries that make a complete tour of all the key themes of photography: cameras, objectives, exposure, depth of field, ISO, flash … You can follow the course online in your web, or download it in format PDF from the Premium section of your page.
Digital Photography Course
This course offered by Harvard University includes a total of 13 modules on subjects such as light, exposure, objectives, color … which can be completed with between 10 and 15 hours of work . Upon completing the course, the student will be able to take full advantage of all the possibilities of his camera, how to configure it correctly for the type of photo he wants, and how to process the images afterwards to obtain the best result.
Photography course
The Photography Course website offers three courses, for beginners, middle and advanced levels. In them you start with the most basic concepts (light, aperture, ISO, exposure …), and finish with subjects like portraits, aerial photography or image editing. These are short courses (between 4 and 10 lessons), to be completely on the web.
Learn with Canon
More than a photography course per, what you find on the Canon website are frequently updated photography tutorials that can teach you how to improve the composition of your photos, make better action photography, use light better or Learn the tricks of macro photography, among other things. The tutorials are logically focused on Canon cameras.
Digital Classroom Nikonists
For those who are on the Nikon side, the website Nikonistas has a section called Digital Classroom, developed in collaboration with the School of Photography and Design IDEP of Barcelona, where you can follow a photography course divided into four levels : Aesthetics And narrative photography, Techniques of digital photography, Retouching and manipulation of images and Digital photography in practice. Each level has several lessons, and upon completion you have to pass an exam .
Basic photography course by Toni de Ros
Do you prefer the video format to learn? We also have material for you. To begin with, the basic photography course by Toni de Ros, a course that reviews all the essential concepts to start self-taught in the world of photography. In total there are 11 videos of short duration (none exceeds 10 minutes).
Academy of Photography
Following with the video courses, the channel of the Academy of Photography also has a lot of material, with playlists organized by themes: flash photography, guide to poses, night photography, camera settings, editing and post -production, etc. There is also a collection of videos with basic concepts for beginners.
Photography: Ditch Auto – Start Shooting in Manual
Udemy offers all kinds of courses, and among them could not miss the photography. In this list we have included this free course that has a curious approach: it encourages people to stop using the “Auto” mode of their DSLR cameras (which many do) and get the most out of using it in manual mode. The course consists of 37 lessons and a total video content of 4.5 hours.
CameraSim
Speaking of the modes of use of the camera, a small online utility that can help you better understand how they affect the different ISO settings, aperture and shutter speed to the final photo. It’s called CameraSim and you can try it (in a limited way) on your web version, or download it in app format for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android.
