12 Amazingly Free Resources to Learn Photography on the Internet
Break out of the photographer’s block with some of the best and the most recent courses and tutorials from the internet.
It can get kind of difficult to learn on your own. First of all, motivation is hard to come by. If you’re not part of a photography club, you’d have to come up with your own ideas. And photography is expensive.
Owning a camera, even a pre-loved one, can cost you a holiday or two. Photography classes are expensive, and the clubs are, too. So here are some amazing free resources you can access online.
1. Marc Levoy’s Free Lectures on Digital Photography
Marc Levoy is a former Stanford lecturer turned Google researcher. His lectures on Digital Photography is set up exactly the way a college class would be. No prior knowledge on photography is needed to take the course.
If you want to take photographs and improve your picture-taking skills, this course is an outstanding resource, with assignments to post to Google Photos and then the community. This 11-week course comes with no formal evaluations, unlike his other course taught at Stanford.
2. Introduction to Photography and Related Media
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Open Courseware or MIT OCW has a series of courses on photography as taught to undergraduate and graduate students. Introduction to Photography and Related Media, which was taught in the fall 2007 semester is your go-to resource for the fundamentals of analogue and digital SLR, film exposure & development, black and white darkroom techniques, digital imaging, and studio lighting.
There is a previous version of this course as taught by Reiner Leist in the fall 2002 semester, titled Introduction to Photography, which is also available on the MIT OCW website.
