A Year With My Camera (AYWMC)

A Year With My Camera is a beginners photography course, designed to teach beginners how to use their camera's manual controls to become better photographers. It's free, with weekly email lessons and homework. 

The course and its community are founded on three basic principles:

1. "The only photographer I will compare myself to is the one I used to be."
2. "Progress, not perfection."
3. "Don't forget to have fun."

Of the community, it's all on either instagram or a phone app. I'm not on instagram, and I don't have a mobile phone, so I'm going to put all my lesson notes and homework assignments here, on my photography blog. 

Part 1: Technical

Lesson 1: Introduction to Exposure

Lesson 2: Aperture

Lesson 3: Shutter Speed

Lesson 4: ISO

Lesson 5: Exposure Triangle

Lesson 6: Metering

Part 2: Composition

Lesson 1: Composition Elements

Lesson 2: Single Focal Point

Lesson 3: Thinking About the Whole Frame

Lesson 4: Advanced Composition Techniques

Part 3: Light

Lesson 1: Light Direction

Lesson 2: Light Quality

Lesson 3: Color of Light

Lesson 4: Fill Light

Part 4: Creativity

Lesson 1: Using Boundaries

Lesson 2: Selective Attention

Lesson 3: Nothing is Original

Lesson 4: Finding Inspiration

 

Part 5: Editing

 

Lesson 1: Editing Is Not Cheating

Supplemental: RAW Images

Lesson 2: Color Edits

Lesson 3: Tonal Edits

Lesson 4: Advanced Edits

Part 6: Tripods

Lesson 1: Motion Blur