Digital Photography for Middle School Students and Kids (Udemy.com)
Learn How to Use Your Camera & How to Take Creative & Amazing Photos - Best Online Class for Kids and Adult Beginners!
Created by: Nadia Tyson Photographer
Last updated February 2022
What you will learn
- 10-15 weeks of fun projects make this the perfect course for beginners to learn how to use a camera properly and take creative photos!
- This Digital Photography Course is designed to provide self-directed and advanced instruction and knowledge of digital photography.
- Students will learn how to take well composed photographs using their own digital cameras.
- Students will learn about different types of photography out there
- Emphasis will be placed on basic camera handling skills and compositional guidelines.
- This is the perfect photography course for anyone wanting to learn more about how to use a camera/smart phone camera and ways to take great shots!
- Most importantly, students will know how to take creative and unique photos and have fun doing it!
How it compares
Against the other 275 rated Udemy courses in Photography on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 44% of them
- Reviews54#226 of 276 by number of reviews
- Length1.3 hoursshorter than 82% of them
- Last updatedFebruary 2022more recently than 50% of them
Course Description
Digital Photography for Beginners is a fun, informative, and simple course for everyone that allows them to learn the basics of the Camera Handling Skills, Compositional Techniques and more. By following this course to the end, you will definitely have a much more thorough understanding of Digital Photography and will hopefully be inspired to continue learning photography. This course will help you learn and improve in the following areas:
Camera Handling Skills
Compositional Techniques
Types of Photography
How to Transfer Your Images to a Computer
All the videos consist of a detailed description of the concept followed by a fun and creative photo assignment.
Course is open to all ages. Course instructor is a middle school photography teacher and a lot of the lessons are similar to what is taught in her classes. This course will teach you how to take amazing images , whether you use a smartphone, mirrorless or DSLR camera.
Hello and welcome to Beginners Digital Photography! I am Nadia Tyson and I have been photographing and teaching photography to middle school students for over 10 years! My passion is documentary photography so I often photograph for online photojournalism publications. I also own a headshot business in Los Angeles, California. This course is open for ALL ages and all levels and it covers all types of cameras - whether you have a DSLR camera or a camera phone- I go over it all! The course mainly focuses on 1.) Camera Handling Skills and 2.) Compositional Techniques. We also cover different types of photography as well as how to transfer your photos to a computer. A total of 10 fun photo assignments are included at the end of each course!
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
54 Reviews
Nadia Tyson Photographer
My name is Nadia Tyson and I have been teaching Digital Photography to middle school students for over 10 years. I also own a photography business and have been shooting for about 20 years. I am very passionate about people photography and my focus is mainly on documentary photography and headshot photography.
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Reviews
By Udemy User on 1/13/2026
I love this course!
By Zoja Hussainova on 9/15/2025
Easy and useful
By Keerthana V on 3/17/2025
Low quality video but good class
By Levi Harker on 5/10/2024
I personally have never took a photography course before but this seems like a good one
By Anonymized User on 7/4/2022
Great match! Looking forward to the assignment! Thank you
By Jason Ward on 1/23/2022
Sounds is awful, details sparse.
By Chiara on 1/13/2022
I learned a lot
By Nishi Rayaguru on 5/11/2021
amazing gave me an amazing starting point in my photography journey
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Overall Score : 90 / 100






