DAY 361

PHOTOGRAPHY 101

For Further Study

YOU’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN

To further your quest for knowledge, look into photography courses at your local college or adult education center. If you are not located near a college or night school and desire to learn photography through online courses, check out www.betterphoto.com. The website contains informative articles, and they also offer four- and eight-week courses taught by professionals in the industry. Each week’s lesson is provided in document format and contains examples of the results desired. There are also assignments to be completed on a weekly basis and a private website classroom where you may leave messages for the instructor or communicate with other classmates. At the end of the course, you will receive a certificate of completion.

Several books worth reading:

One of the first photography books I received still sits on my bookshelf. John Hedgecoe’s Complete Photography Course is no longer in print, but used copies can be obtained online. Hedgecoe also wrote a number of other books on photography that are in lesson and project format.

My current photography “bible” is Photography by Barbara London, John Upton, and Jim Stone. This is the resource used in most college introductory photography courses and is very technically written.

For Adobe Photoshop enthusiasts, anything by Scott Kelby is an excellent resource. From introductory texts to volumes about specific special effects, he is a master on the subject. —CWN