Out of Auto
Exposure, composition, light, and the edit, from four teachers instead of one.
Free to watch. Starting adds a personal copy to My Learning with progress tracking and a curated-path certificate on completion.
About this path
Photography courses each have one thing they teach best. This path takes exposure and camera control from the fundamentals course, composition and seeing from the masterclass, artificial light from a studio specialist, and the first stretch of a thirty-day Lightroom course so your files get finished rather than filed.
What you'll learn
- Control aperture, shutter, and ISO deliberately
- Compose a frame instead of centring a subject
- Shape artificial light rather than fighting it
- Develop a raw file with intent in Lightroom
- Build a repeatable workflow from shoot to export
The path, module by module
Each step is lifted from a full course in our catalog, and where a course repeats itself we keep only the lessons that earn their place.
Module 1 · from Photography Fundamentals
Aperture, Shutter, ISO, White Balance
Exposure and camera control. The half-hour that gets you off auto for good.
8 lessons · 1h 48m
Camera Settings: APERTURE ?? Basic Photography Course in Hindi Episode 1 | BECOME Master of DSLR · Camera Settings: What is Shutter Speed?? Basic Photography Course in Hindi · How to set White Balance in Your Camera?? Episode 5 | Full Photography Course for FREE in HINDI !!
Module 2 · from Photography Fundamentals
Composition, Low Light, and Flash
Aperture in practice, night shooting, composition, and speedlight basics. The two workshop advertisements in the same module are skipped.
4 lessons · 1h 17m · hand-picked from 8
What is Aperture ?? Practical Course for Beginner Photography | Step by Step Camera Settings | Hindi · Low Light/Night HINDI Photography Tutorial |Camera Settings,Lighting & Creativity (All of it in ONE) · COMPOSITION in Photography |TOP Rules of Framing | Take PROFESSIONAL STORYTELLING in just one video!
Module 3 · from The Complete Photography Masterclass
Focus, Exposure, and Choosing a Lens
Focus technique, manual exposure, and which lens to actually buy. Short lessons, high hit rate.
8 lessons · 50m
4.1. Focus Techniques - Learn how to get your images perfectly focussed · 4.2. Focus Techniques - Focus Tracking & Back Button Focusing · Photography Misconceptions - #1 Multiple focus points can focus on multiple parts of an image
Module 4 · from The Complete Photography Masterclass
Bokeh, Aperture Numbers, and Reading Other People's Settings
Why background blur happens, what the f-number means, and how to learn from another photographer's EXIF. Picked from a course whose later modules are lockdown boredom projects.
3 lessons · 21m · hand-picked from 8
Better Bokeh - the 5 factors of background blur · Aperture numbers explained - THE SCIENCE behind the aperture, "f" and why the numbers make sense · Learn From Other Photographers' Camera Settings in 2020
Module 5 · from Studio Lighting Masterclass
One Light and a Modifier
Artificial light fundamentals. One flash, understood, beats a bag of gear you cannot aim.
8 lessons · 1h 37m
Studio Lighting Essentials | Bare Bulbs, Standard Reflectors and More! 💡 · Octabox 150: Why Every Photographer Needs One! | Studio Lighting Essentials 💥 · Should You Use A White Shoot-Through Umbrella? (Pros + Cons Detailed) ⛱
Module 6 · from 30 Days of Lightroom
Import, Organise, and First Edits
The opening stretch of a thirty-day Lightroom course. Enough to develop a raw file properly and build the habit.
8 lessons · 1h 48m
Welcome to 30 Days of Lightroom · Setting Up Your Workspace & Importing in Lightroom - Day 1 · Advanced Organizing in Lightroom - Day 2