Photographers
Creative Market is a one stop shop for everything graphic you could possibly need. They have Photos, Graphics, Bundles of Graphics, Templates, Themes, Fonts, Add-Ons and 3D. What more could you want. If you're a graphic designer, you can even join their marketplace and sell online, you earn 70% of the price. So why not… Continue reading Creative Market
Level: Beginner This comprehensive, mostly-text tutorial by Lifehacker starts off with three sections that explain how a digital camera works, its automatic settings, and its more advanced manual settings. The last two sections provide helpful information on compositional techniques and how to edit your photos during post-processing. The course also offers additional resources for extended… Continue reading Basics of Photography: The Complete Guide
Level: Beginner to Intermediate The course offers advanced yet very doable strategies for taking flattering portraits as well as tips on how you can make your subjects (young and old) behave in front of the camera. However, you’ll need to have a pretty good understanding of how cameras work in order to understand other lessons… Continue reading Professional Family Portraits
Level: Beginner to Intermediate CreativeLife mostly sells online courses, but they also have a wide range of free on-air classes (at least one per day) that cover topics such as video, art and design, music and audio, crafts, and others—including photography, of course. The site allows viewers to RSVP to different classes, which can easily… Continue reading CreativeLive On Air Classes
Level: Beginner to Advanced Alison offers free online diploma and certificate courses in a wide variety of disciplines, which includes a handful of photography courses designed to help shutterbugs of varying skill levels take their photography to the new heights. Alison currently has certificate courses for beginners, intermediate-level photographers, and advanced shooters, as well as… Continue reading Alison Free Online Photography Courses
Level: Beginner The course, which is freely available to anyone through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenCourseWare initiative, features video lectures from a semester-long undergraduate-level course at MIT. With the help of four instructors, you’ll learn the fundamentals and technical aspects of working both analog and digital SLR cameras. The tutorial also covers lessons… Continue reading Introduction to Photography and Related Media
Level: Beginner This free Udemy course aims to make photography “simple” with 10 lectures and a total of 31 minutes of instructional videos. Celebrity photographer and cinematographer Corey Reese provides in-depth information about shooting in natural light and understanding manual camera settings (like aperture and shutter speed) for a wide range of photography applications. As… Continue reading Your Road to Better Photography
Level: Beginner to Intermediate As the name suggests, Lighting 101 teaches all the basics (and more) about working with lighting equipment. While the lessons are mostly text-based with a few images, it helps both beginners and skilled photographers understand the topics covered in a very understandable way and effectively improves the quality of their photos.… Continue reading Lighting 101: Introduction
Level: Intermediate This free FutureLearn online course is for aspiring commercial photographers or assistants who are hoping to develop their skills and knowledge in new media. This involves exploring still and moving image photography, which means you’ll get to tackle topics on filmmaking as well as the use of CGI, animation, and more. It will… Continue reading Commercial Photography: Still and Moving Image
Level: Intermediate The free online photography course for aspiring photojournalists, this MIT course from 2016 (also available on MIT OpenCourseWare) helps you hone your photographic “eye” and skills by exposing you to the work of some of the most successful shooters in the field. And by the end of the course, you will have gained… Continue reading Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motion
