A few days after the launch of the online photography course on the photographer’s blog?For the most impatient, today I bring you more information about the course, its content, its methodology and some aspects of how we did it.
The idea came from you, dear reader-photographer. Hundreds of blog posts, full of tutorials, tips, camera recommendations, 5 photography books (and one more along the way), weekly challenges and tons of free material that I share with my VIP readers, none of this seemed to queer thirst. for learning and passion for photography professed by the photographer’s Blog reader community. You’ve been asking for a course the whole time, I promised to do everything I could to make it happen one day. Is this day too close?
- For better or worse.
- The photographer’s blog is different: the photography sites are full of advertisements.
- When I created BdF.
- I made my “principle” of not showing ads.
- A policy that I always hope to respect.
- Photography sites are a cult of cameras In temples.
- The larger.
- Heavier and more sophisticated a camera is electronically.
- The better it is considered.
- In the photographer’s Blog.
- The protagonist was never the camera.
- It was us.
- The photographers.
- Who took or stopped taking the photo.
- We are the one who takes the photo correctly or badly.
- Not the camera.
With such a different blog, the course could not be ‘one more course’, I needed a different path, able to solve (or at least try to fix) all the flaws I saw in the other courses:
If you analyze the market of photography courses, you realize that it is divided into two main categories: professional courses where there is no place for the beginner photographer, or courses made for amateurs where, one weekend, a photographer walks students. a central street explaining four concepts that, between the horns of cars, the tumult of the street, the number of students who slash around the teacher, and the speed of explanation, one looks at the camera and asks “What do you say?Should you push?”
How do you solve all this in a photography course?, do it online?Yes well, and what else? The market is full of online courses, some with very poor and outdated content, others with an exaggerated theoretical theme that brings them closer to the philosophy of history than to a passion like photography.
Where you start
If you’re a VIP reader, you’ll remember that a few months ago I sent you a survey wondering about your biggest challenges as a beginner photographer. The investigation was part of a phase of R
Among the more than 6000 responses I received for the survey, these are the most repeated/requested terms by readers:
Most blog readers are (or aspire to be) SLR camera users, with a particular interest in landscape and portrait photography, who find it particularly difficult to use manual and bright modes. Detailed profile of my reader and my future student. Did you know which photograph you liked and which you didn’t like, what level you had (of all levels but above all amateur beginner and intermediate level), what difficulties did you encounter in your amateur?
With this valuable information, I sat down to draw the general lines of the course program. A course with “tailor-made” content for the BdF community.
Over the next few weeks, I dedicated myself to developing content, filming each unit on video, editing videos, coordinating with my collaborators the rest of the supporting content (supporting texts, summaries, self-assessment tests, etc. ) and spending a lot of time building the online platform that will allow everyone to register in the course, access and consume their content independently, at any time of the day and from any device.
Here are some of the most common questions I’ve received so far about the course:
We prepare the course thinking about the beginner photographer, the SLR camera user who resists manual mode, or who has very basic and vague notions of photography, but who does not know how to implement them, the advanced user can already fly alone, and in the future we may be able to launch courses for more advanced photographers, but today the course is for the beginner amateur photographer who is starting to take his first steps in photography.
Ideally have camera to do the course, if it is better SLR, if you do not have do not worry, in the first units of the course we guide you so that you can buy your SLR camera so that you can continue the rest of the course without problems.
As it is an online and on-demand course, we have prepared all the content and ordered it in the way that gives you the most benefits, from there you decide the day and time when you want to make the modules or units.
Yes, you can do this from any device with a browser and an Internet connection. If you’re reading this, can you?
Not unless you call the main jingle soundtrack
In December.
In the first fortnight of December.
Promised?
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