When a few of my writer buddies and I decided to take a free online photography course together, we agreed that it would be totally self-paced. And it seems at the moment that we’re all taking advantage of that. Even Morguefile.com, which hosts the course, is undergoing renovations right now.
Who am I to argue? I’ll [...]
My goal with the photography course has been to post my assignment results every Sunday, but I was busy this weekend taking pictures of my jack-o-lantern masterpiece and, well, I forgot to do the assignment.
Lesson 4 includes two assignments with a film camera. I found a pretty neat old Canon point and shoot at Goodwill [...]
The first assignment of lesson 3 asks that we take two shots of the same subject; one using the widest angle on our camera and one using the longest (i.e. zoom).
I’ve been waiting impatiently to show you these. I was pretty excited about the results. These were from three different days, but they were all taken at [...]
Will be up in a moment. As soon as I find and resize the pics. Which reminds me of a good post on DPS about organizing photo files. Which I will also find in a few minutes. LOL. Looks like I need it!
…several hours, 2 unexpected guests, and 1 Internet connection problem later…
I experimented with slow shutter speeds [...]
Very different from my previous Lesson 1 post. There’s more to the 1st assignment, so I’ll add to this post when I have it completed.
And here they are: more views of my hibiscus tree than you ever thought you wanted to see. I have to recommend this method, however. Every way you look [...]
So, as I was rereading Lesson 1 of the photography course, I started thinking a little more deeply about photograph titles. Jodie named her beautiful close-up shot of the rose “Butter” because it the petals were so soft, it seemed like they would melt like butter if you touched them. She says it doesn’t really matter [...]
Today’s the day! we’re starting Lesson 1 of the free photography course at Morguefile. When you’re all done taking pictures that make use of the Golden Mean and leading lines and such, leave a link to your blog here in the comments section. (I was going to put them in the post, but some of [...]
Food and travel writer Charmian Christie is going to join me this go-around. She’s set up a separate blog for this endeavor. And if you’d like to join us, you’re more than welcome. Let me know where you’ll be posting your photos, and I’ll add a link to the Photography Project blogroll.
In addition to the course at Morguefile, which I’ve talked about ad nauseum here and elsewhere, I’ve found two other good sites for learning about digital photography.
BetterPhoto.com offers courses (for a fee), an online community, and loads and loads of user-submitted pictures at which you can gaze with longing, wishing yours were as good to learn [...]
Lesson 3, Assignment 1 of Jodie Coston’s Free Online Photography Course at Morguefile.
Wide Angle
Zoom