Photography For Beginners Complete Guide: Master Photography (Udemy.com)
Photography Fundamentals Guide For Beginners: Composition, Focus, Exposure, lighting, Raw Editing in Lightroom & more!
Created by: Life Progression Project
Last updated October 2019
What you will learn
- Understand Photography fundamentals
- Take better photos
- Understand exposure controls
- Understand how to take creative long exposure pictures
- Difference between Raw and Jpeg
- Edit Raw images in Lightroom
- Understand composition & the rule of thirds
- Understand the basics of portrait photography
- Understand the basics of landscape photography
How it compares
Against the other 275 rated Udemy courses in Photography on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 69% of them
- Reviews171#152 of 276 by number of reviews
- Length3.2 hourslonger than 51% of them
- Last updatedOctober 2019earlier than 69% of them
Course Description
Welcome to our Photography For Beginners Complete Guide: Master Photography course!
This course was designed and produced over several months in partnership with a Toronto based professional video production company.
In this photography for beginners course, you will learn:
- Photography fundamentals (iso, shutter speed, aperture, composition, rule of thirds, light meter, white balance, )
- Exposure: auto vs manual
- Focus: auto vs manual modes
- Mobile vs DSLR Cameras
- Intro to Photography lighting (Natural and an intro to flashes)
- Raw photos vs JPG
- 3 photography scenario lessons in the field (portrait, landscape and long exposure)
- Photography editing in Adobe Lightroom (3 complete photo editing lessons)
- Photography tips
- Finding inspiration in photography
- and more!
This course will walk you through everything you need to know to get started in Photography and much more! By the end of this course, you'll have a strong understanding of how to capture great photos and then edit them professionally.
You will be provided with RAW photo files to follow along in the editing section of this course! (If you don't have Adobe Lightroom, you can download a free 30 day trial off of Adobe's website.)
The instructor for this course is David Paul. He is a Toronto based Professional Photographer that is often featured across several social media platforms. He has established himself as an urban landscape photographer with a focus on unique street scenes. David has been asked hundreds of times how he captured his photos and through partnering with a video production company, he was able to create a complete guide to photography for beginners!
Enrol today to take your photography game to the next level!
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
171 Reviews
Life Progression Project
Life Progression Project provides a high-quality learning experience through multi-hour online video courses that teach various skills, techniques, and practices to deliver content in marketing, media production, business, personal development, photography, healthy living, web development, investing, branding, and more.
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Reviews
By kitana riley on 9/30/2025
This really helped me understand how my camera works and how the 3 elements work together to create a photo pleasing to the eye. The resources that were given also helped me to follow along and practice the things that were being taught section by section. Thank you!
By Roy Fleming on 3/5/2020
It was a great course
By Larry Hunt on 11/28/2018
It is a little basic but it is what I wanted. Nice reminders of thing s forgotten. Overall really excellent. A super introduction to DSLR photography and post-processing as an integral function of producing photographs.
By Godwin Ezukuse on 11/25/2018
I've gotten better. I actually knew a lot about photography but since I learnt alone, I needed some professional advice...this course won't make you a perfect photographer, you have to go out there and work that work. You need to understand what kind of photos you'd love to take. I love portrait, and I stuck to it.
By Angela Sutton on 9/19/2018
I'm enjoying it so far. It is only early days yet though! And, I haven't bought a camera yet - I only have my iPhone X to take photos with at the present time.
By Jacquline Chen on 9/14/2018
It was great introductory course to photography. Didnt know that we can do so many things to a photo using Lightroom. Whats on the camera might not be the same after editing. There was also simple and crucial tips on basic camera function and techniques.
By David Decco on 8/15/2018
David is a great photography instructor. He goes through the techy side of Photography but in a way that helps you understand what he means. He covers the stuff that most people want to take photos of too like taking photos of people and landscapes. He also goes into editing which I've already seen make a difference in the photos I've edited using his editing lessons.
By Geraldine Bryce on 8/8/2018
It was easy to watch. It wasn't a lecture ,all of it was interesting and pace was good. editing parts really useful learnt lots, the ones I've seen before click all over the place at a fast rate and can't see where or what they are clicking on and this needs to be done slowly. I really enjoyed it. Thank you
By Clayton Smith on 8/5/2018
this was a great course. I was having problems understanding shutter speed, aperture, and ISO. This course explained all of them in a way I could understand. The instructor spoke plainly and slowly with enthusiasm. Now I believe I have the confidence to shoot a lot better photos.
By Marlee Pie on 7/11/2018
Wow this course is jam packed with info about how to shoot photos. I like the instructors style of teaching too. He talks to you like a friend and shares real life examples of things that new photographers may struggle with and how to trouble shoot them. This course is great, I've taken a few photos while following along and already see a huge improvement ! !
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