Welcome to Ten Top Tips - Be More Creative With Your Camera! This is a
short course to give you my Ten Top Tips and explain why they will make
you a better photographer. With
over 30 years experience as a professional photographer
I have designed these Top Tips to give you an encouraging start.
Learning to use your camera in Manual Mode and freeing yourself from
letting your camera making choices for you will allow you to be more
creative with your camera. I've kept my language simple and avoided
using jargon as much as possible so that if English is not your first
language it will be easy enough to understand (and I have had some good
feedback from people telling me I am easy to understand.) All the photos
and video used to demonstrate my teaching are taken by myself or my
wife (I'm not someone who teaches photography by using other peoples
photos, except for some special illustrations.)
You will gain a fundamental understanding of your camera and how you
can be more creative with your photography. I frequently run photography
workshops with people who own modern, high tech, expensive camera
equipment and shoot all their photos on auto. In this course I will
teach you how to break free from just using your camera's auto modes and
how you can be more creative shooting in Manual Mode. Any camera that
has a Manual Mode (and that's most cameras) is suitable to sue with this
course.
You will learn about the exposure triangle - ISO, Aperture and
Shutter Speed, and how to use the camera's exposure meter to create well
exposed photographs in any situation. I will teach you how to start
appreciating different lighting conditions and how to take better photos
no matter what the light is like. You will also learn how our eyes see
differently than our camera and why this is an important concept for
photographers to grasp.
People who enjoy photography are usually visual learners so I have
designed this course to be as visually stimulating as possible. Ten Top
Tips is mostly presented with video, including lots of photographic
examples, diagrams and animations to help illustrate the teaching.
There is no time limit to the course and I would encourage you to
take time to complete each lecture and exercise as you feel comfortable
to. Even repeat a lecture and exercise if you are not sure that you are
understanding the teaching.
It does take time to learn to operate a camera manually, but I
encourage you to persevere as it is rewarding. As you study, do the
exercises and practice the teaching in this course you will be more
creative with your camera.
