Free Online Photo Courses

Photographer Chris Bray offers a basic course of free photo classes.

Harvard University offers this free online digital photography course 

by Dan Armendariz. The full class load and reference materials can 

be found here or on iTunes.

Enroll in MoMA's free 6-week course Seeing Through Photographs.

A highly rated free Stanford University photography course by professor 

Marc Lavoy is available online.  Find the Google Classroom course site 

or head to the YouTube channel.

📷Hours of great free photography lectures are available on YouTube 

by the School of Visual Arts and B&H Photo.

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Landscape Photography

Portraiture

Photographic Lighting

Cameras & Lenses

Quarantine Photo Project Ideas

Recreate Famous Movie Scenes with Cardboard

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Take the Getty Museum Challenge

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The Getty Museum has challenged people to photograph recreations of famous artworks.

• Washington Post
• Getty 
• Rijksmuseum
• Tussenkunten
• Also, See the Nina Katchadourian Airplane Lavatory Project

Legography

• Creatively Photograph Lego figures

Food Photography

Exposure

Apps for manual settings on iPhone

• VSCO - (Free)
• Camera +2 ($3.99)
• Halide Camera ($5.99)
• ProShot ($4.99)
• ProCam 7 ($5.99)

Photographic Composition Continued

More of Mike Brown on Composition 




Alfred Stieglitz


Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photographic Composition

COMPOSITION is the organization of visual elements used in a picture to communicate visual harmony. They are the ingredients arranged in a photograph to create order and say what you want to say in an effective aesthetically pleasing way
The so-called rules of photographic composition are, in my opinion, invalid, irrelevant and immaterial” – Ansel Adams

1. 1. Intention:  Know what you are photographing.  Make your choice for a reason for photographing.  Have a focal point. Contemplate Your Images. Think. Slow down. 
2. 2. Simplicity:  Keep it Simple. Simplify the scene to your subject/most interesting visual element.  Leave out clutter that takes away from what you want to say.
3. 3. Rule of Thirds (vertical and horizontal) compose at a cross point in your frame. Avoid the middle!
4. 4. Horizons:  use rule of thirds and avoid centering horizons
5. 5. Balance:  keep the visual weight of your pictures equalized.
6. 6. Leading Lines: lines and curves draw you into the photograph
7. 7. Geometry: S-Curves, Cirles, Lines, Triangles.  Use Shapes to draw your viewer in.
8. 8. Patterns:  repeating visual patterns created in the natural and unnatural world.
9. 9. Symmetry:  geometrical balance and harmony.
10. 10. Point of View:  eye-level; worm’s eye; birds eye; side view; back view; close-up; distant. Look for the best, most interesting point of view..
11. 11. Framing:  finding a visual frame in the scene: window, arch, hole and frames within frames.
12. 12. Backgrounds:  clean unobtrusive or interesting backgrounds. Avoid Mergers (things growing out of subject’s head). Look and See!
13. 13. Avoid Mergers:  Watch Background and things growing out of your subject.
14. 14. Rule of Odds  Use an odd number of elements in your composition for more compelling photographs.
15. 15. Silhouettes and Shapes
16. 16. Scale:  show the size and create impact by showing the size contrasts between elements in your picture. Compare and contrast large and small objects.
17. 17. Lead Room:  Leave space to move in the direction your subject is moving either in front or behind showing where they’re going or have been. 
18. 18. Space:  Positive and negative space can be used for strong impact.
19. 19. Color:  use strong contrasting colors to communicate.
20. 20. Texture:  communicate how if feels (rough, smooth, bumby, scaley, leathery, etc.)
21. 21. Depth of Field:  Use selective focus and blur the background to convey your intention. 
22. 22. Fill the Frame:  Think, compose and include only essential photo elements.
23. 23. Layering:  create depth and dimension by layering elements in your photos.
24. 24. Recapitulation:  use elements to draw viewer’s eye around picture like a pinball machine.
25. 25. Break the Rules   After you know and understand the rules, break them.

The History of Photography