Skip to content
Visual Arts Calendar view

How to use your DSLR


Class
Alina Toderascu
Access code required
Enroll

You're a seasoned photographer with a passion for improving your craft. Let us show you how to take your photography to the next level.


Whether you want to be a photographer or just love taking pictures, learn what you need to know through the How to use your DSLR class that will teach you how to use your camera to tell a story, how to play with light and exposure, and more. Get tips on photo editing, studio photography, using backgrounds, and composition basics as well.

A collage of photos showing a girl with a sparkler, a dune, and jar covering plant

The How to use your DSLR course offers you a course of extraordinary detail, care and expertise, plus the chance to unleash your creativity, boost your enjoyment of life and your appreciation of the world around you. Each module in this course has been carefully crafted by the expert team of master photographers of our academy and designed to help and inspire you to want to learn as much as possible and just fall in love with photography from the very first shoot. Our expert photographers will be there for you, at all times, and they will help create the time, motivation, and structure for you to become a successful photographer, whether you do it for pleasure or profit.

Whatever your age, background or current ability is in photography, we will take you by the hand and give you all the guidance and intensive, in-depth help that you need to take dazzling photos, from how to choose the right camera for you, understand shutter speed and aperture, composition basics, light and exposure, and more. Everything is covered in this advanced course. You can learn at your own pace, safe in the knowledge that all of your learning materials are stored on our site and can be accessed at all time.

Here is the class outline:

1. Introduction

Welcome to the class! Here you will learn about everything you need to know about how to use your DSLR camera!

2. How to photograph moving objects

Students will learn the basics of moving photography and how to shoot subjects.

3. How to photograph still objects

Students will learn the basics of still life photography, how to shoot objects, and work with shadows.

4. How to choose the correct ISO setting

This lesson explores what ISO is and how to choose the right setting in order to get the best photographs.

5. Shutter speed and aperture

Shutter Speed and Aperture are one of the three pillars of photography, besides ISO and in this lesson we will learn how to use it.

6. Understanding light in photography

In this lesson we will learn what is the importance and use of light, how to use it in different settings, and how to combine light and color to obtain certain effects.

7. Camera maintenance

In this lesson we will learn how to maintain our camera in a good condition.

8. Overview of the most basic camera settings

In this lesson you will learn about the most important camera settings that every photographer should know.

9. How to use a reflector

In this lesson, we will learn how to improve your images by using reflectors.

10. Choosing the right lens

On this lesson, we will learn how to choose the right lens in different situations.

11. Macros

How to use macro photography

12. Final test

The final assignment for passing the class will be a quiz about all the settings learned.