The Compelling Image provide you with the ability to learn photography online - covering a wide range of topics including portraits, landscapes, black & white, digital slr and more. Our professional photography teachers guide you through every step of the learning process and ensure you get everything you need to present amazing stories through imagery.
Choose from our range of photography courses:
As more photographers are beginning to discover, shooting RAW is the best way to achieve professional quality imagery with your digial camera. Even some point-and shoot-cameras offer RAW capabilites these days. However, going from a RAW file to a high-quality finished photograph requires a few extra steps, and can mean navigating your shot through imaging software that can sometimes seem overwhelming.
"Walking in the shoes" of those from another culture is one thing, communicating through pictures just what that culture is "about," is another challenge still. In this online photography course you'll learn how its best done - by a professional storyteller living just such a dream!
Portraiture is one of the oldest and most practiced forms of photography and thus it constantly evolves and changes. This online photography course is designed to encourage you to really think about how you portray your subject. It will help you select the best lenses and approach your sitter with confidence and imagination to create telling portraits that reveal more than just what’s skin deep.
Fine Art Photography is traditionally thought of as an image captured masterfully. Think of the works of Paul Strand, Irving Penn, and Dorothea Lange. They have all made images that are rightfully placed in museums and photography history books. This interactive and online photography course is designed to stretch the genre, along with your own talent as a photographer. The result just might be an expressively creative fine art masterpiece of your own.
While black and white photographs were among the very first photographs taken, they are now frontier in digital photography. Digital cameras record light differently than film cameras and differently than the human eye. This digital black and white online photography course is the first in a series of three courses designed to help digital photographers see, think and express in light and shadow, black and white. It will cover how the human eye and the camera record light and how to begin to express yourself in the scale of white, gray and black tones.
Have you ever witnessed a landscape so beautiful it took your breath away? As photographers, we are constantly trying to capture and save that moment forever. Whether you live in an area with deserts, oceans, forests, or plains, this online photography course will help you improve your eye for landscape compositions so you can share those moments of awe with others.
Starts on 21 May 2012 (Enroll before 28 May 2012)
Starts on 21 May 2012 (Enroll before 28 May 2012)
Starts on 21 May 2012 (Enroll before 28 May 2012)
Starts on 21 May 2012 (Enroll before 28 May 2012)
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28 Oct 2011
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