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Course Outline & Syllabus
Digital Photography 
Crafting Images

by Brian Ratty

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY, CRAFTING IMAGES

With the advent of inexpensive digital cameras the world of photography has been opened to millions of new image makers. There are few things that last longer then time, pictures are one of them. Learning how to craft these pictures is an essential step in producing images that are timeless and treasured. Digital Photography, Crafting Images teaches the fundamentals of the ‘art and craft’ of making, not taking, digital images. This is a self-paced web workshop that contains 97 minutes of  instructional video clips and 110 printable pages of text with example images.

There is one free sample lesson for this workshop. To access the remaining lessons you may obtain a user id and password by registering at Admissions.
-Learn The Fundamentals of Digital Photography-

This workshop was designed for the 
Amateur and
Semi-Professional Photographer

 PDF Print Files:
110 Pages 


Web, Video & Print

Video Clips: 10 
Total: 97 Minutes 

Warning: This workshop is copyrighted and intended for the personal use of the user. This workshop and/or it's information may not be used in any other public forum.

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Introduction (Lesson 1)

Images all around us
Outstanding pictures have a rhythm all their own
Instructional Video Clip
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The Camera (review) (Lesson2)

The pinhole camera
Image viewing systems
How digital works
Pixels and image size
Memory devises
 Instructional Video Clip
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 Properties of Light (Lesson 3)   

Photography – “To write with light”
Light direction
Light form (hardness / softness)
Light contrast
Light color
Instructional Video Clip
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Exposure Control (Lesson 4)

ISO rating system
Basic exposure control
Built-in light meters
Middle Gray
Bracketing exposure
Camera exposure modes
Using your flash
Reflectors

Instructional Video Clip
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Photographic Design (Lesson 5)

Rule of thirds
Rule of odds
Depth of field
The frame
Vantage point

Instructional Video Clip
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Critiquing Images (Lesson 6)

Off television
The idea book
Snapshots
Using the Internet

Instructional Video Clip
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Visual Themes (Lesson 7)

Light
Color
Focus
Framing

Instructional Video Clip
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Visual Subjects (Lesson 8)

People
Action
Travel
Nature

Instructional Video Clip
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Shooting Accessories (Lesson 9)

Lens cleaning
Filters
Tripods
Light meters
Off camera flash
Reflectors

Instructional Video Clip
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The Gift of Photography (Lesson 10)

Images are timeless and treasured
Student images
Closing 
Instructional Video Clip
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