Photography Basics: Camera Settings, Composition, and Editing

This beginner photography course introduces camera history, settings (including manual and aperture priority), composition, lighting, black-and-white techniques, and basic editing. Lessons combine presentations, video examples, in-class photo practice, critiques, and assignments to build practical camera and editing skills and explore career possibilities.

Materials needed:

CAMERA: A digital DSLR camera is highly recommended, however, a camera from a smart phone will also work. Our classes will have photo taking assignments.

LIGHTROOM MOBILE APP: (only for phone cameras) This app is highly recommended as we will be learning settings in our Digital DSLR and they also have most of those settings in this app that your student can use so he or she will still be learning along with us. It is $4.99 monthly after a 7 day free trial. See the link under materials.

BINDER OR FOLDER: Also there will be notes with fill-in-the-blank areas that your student may find really helpful for class. I recommend printing them and putting them in a folder or binder to support learning.