This is the first lesson from the series of free on-line photography tutorials offered by Academy of Photography. We are offering a definition of what light is in photography, the basics of photography for beginners, give few visual examples and illustrations for an easy understanding. Also we are presenting light classifications as direct or indirect light, hard or harsh or soft light, in relation to intensity as strong medium or low light. We are showing examples and comparison hot to take photos or portraits in full sun, against the sun or in shadow, using the flash or not.
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35 responses to “online photography tutorials lesson 1 – understanding light in photography”
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Thanks.very nicely explained.A great tutorial.
Great. Thanks!!
What a wonderful teacher! Thank you! 🙂
What a wonderful teacher! Thank you! 🙂
very best! thank you!
Light simplified…Great tutorial and fantastic examples.
Thanks. This was very helpful. I paused and rewound the video a lot to take notes.
Thank you. I just bought my very first camera and your lessons are a great help. Pleas keep it up 🙂
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Great tutorial. Great idea to start with light. Great approach.
I'm an emergency room doctor and recently venturing into photography… thanks for the amazing tips and lessons.
Thanks for the video!
I thought the video was very well done and good detail on understanding light source…….you mad some understand BETTER than I did….keep up the great work I n videos
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Good Explanation and very helpful to me …Thanks !!!!
Thank you, tutorials very helpful, very qualified and interesting, but in this one the music was a bit loud and it was destructing from listening the lesson.
Thanking you very much good demo
This is wonderful!!!!! Thanks so much for this
Thanks Great Video.
very helpful… thank you
Despite the accent very good tutorial.
very good explanations (thx for the background), easy to follow, just one proposition i d like to make : kindly talk after you showed with and without flash one after the other, makes it easier to actually see the difference 😉
Very good, I have being follow to outres posts e lern much, thanks. JPavani
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Can all of your training videos be ordered on DVD?
Can all of your training videos be ordered on DVD?
Thanks a lot!!!!
well there are people that can use the sun light to make beautiful photos, but they dont use auto option ..
Extremely happy i found your Channel!
Thank you so much!
Hands down, the BEST video course I have found in the web. Thanks!!! = )
Why three thumbs down ? They must be watching a different video
Great tutorial and very well explain, thanks
thank u for sharing! ur a very good "light" teacher. this tutorial is conducive for photography enthusiasts like me.
Thanks alot for ur informativ tutorial