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Part I: Understanding How Your Digital Camera Works

For our first lesson in the Basics of Photography, we learn how cameras work and make sense of what that means in terms of choosing a camera to buy and how that choice affects your photographs.

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Part II: Your Camera's Automatic and Assisted Settings

In this lesson we take a look at your camera's
various assisted and automatic settings.

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Laurel Mason & Jeff Zheng

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Part IV: Composition and Technique

A well-composed photograph is really a matter of opinion, but there are a few tricks that tend to result in better pictures. That's what we take a look at in this lesson.

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Part V: Editing Images in Post

For our final photography lesson, we look at the final step: editing your images. We try different kinds of techniques for color correction, touch ups, and a few other fun effects.

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Part III: Your Camera's Manual Settings

In this lesson we take away our handicap and jump into the fun stuff: manual mode. We look at the details of shutter speed, ISO, and aperture, as well as how those settings

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Additional Resources

If you want to learn more about digital photography, there are plenty of resources to help you out.

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Editing Your Photos

learn Photoshop

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For The Engineering Class

The above website should not be taken seriously as the work of a professional and should widely be ignored. The purpose of this website was to accomplish a coding project for a highschool engineering class.