Photography Videography Course

Lesson 1 • Camera Controls and Menu Navigation

Teaches physical controls, custom buttons, and menu structures common across modern cameras. Enables fast, confident in-field adjustments without interrupting workflow.

Lesson 2 • Essential Accessories and Support Gear

Introduces tripods, stabilisers, filters, and memory cards as critical support tools. Prepares students to build a functional kit for real-world shoots.

Lesson 3 • Lenses, Mounts, and Focal Lengths

Explains lens types, mount compatibility, and how focal length affects perspective. Directly informs composition and gear selection throughout the course.

Lesson 1 • Exposure for Video: Frame Rate and Shutter Angle

Introduces the 180-degree shutter rule and frame rate selection for cinematic video. Connects still photography exposure knowledge to the unique demands of video capture.

Lesson 2 • Shooting in Manual and Semi-Auto Modes

Guides students through Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, and full Manual modes. Builds the habit of intentional exposure control rather than relying on auto settings.

Lesson 3 • Metering Modes and Histograms

Covers evaluative, spot, and centre-weighted metering and how to read histograms. Teaches objective exposure evaluation beyond relying on the LCD preview.

Lesson 1 • Manual Focus Techniques

Teaches focus peaking, magnification, and hyperfocal distance for manual control. Provides reliable alternatives when autofocus fails or creative precision is required.

Lesson 2 • Focus in Video: Pulls and Racks

Introduces rack focus, pull focus, and continuous AF for cinematic video work. Builds on still photography focus skills and applies them to moving image storytelling.

Lesson 3 • Depth of Field Control

Explains how aperture, focal length, and sensor size interact to shape depth of field. Connects technical settings to creative decisions about subject isolation and context.

Lesson 1 • Colour, Contrast, and Visual Weight

Examines how colour relationships and tonal contrast direct the viewer's eye. Connects visual design theory to practical in-camera and post-production decisions.

Lesson 2 • Storytelling Through Shot Selection

Introduces wide, medium, and close-up shot types and their narrative functions. Bridges still composition skills to the sequential storytelling logic of video production.

Lesson 3 • Perspective, Depth, and Camera Angles

Explores how camera height, distance, and angle alter subject perception and scene depth. Expands compositional vocabulary beyond flat, eye-level framing.

Lesson 1 • Classic Lighting Setups and Patterns

Teaches Rembrandt, butterfly, split, and loop lighting patterns for portrait work. Provides replicable setups that students can adapt across photography and video projects.

Lesson 2 • Artificial Lighting Equipment

Covers speedlights, monolights, LED panels, and continuous lights and their applications. Builds the gear knowledge needed to control light in any environment.

Lesson 3 • Understanding Natural Light

Analyses golden hour, overcast, and harsh midday light and how to work with each. Teaches observation and positioning skills that reduce dependence on artificial gear.

Lesson 1 • Video Settings: Resolution, Codec, and Colour Profile

Covers resolution options, recording codecs, bit depth, and log colour profiles. Establishes the technical foundation for high-quality footage that survives post-production.

Lesson 2 • Audio Capture for Video

Introduces on-camera mics, lavaliers, and shotgun microphones for clean audio. Addresses the most common technical weakness in amateur video production.

Lesson 3 • Camera Movement Techniques

Teaches pan, tilt, dolly, and handheld movement and their narrative purposes. Expands the visual language students can use to guide viewer attention in video.

Lesson 1 • Sharpening, Noise Reduction, and Export

Teaches output sharpening, AI noise reduction, and export settings for web and print. Completes the editing pipeline with delivery-ready files at correct specifications.

Lesson 2 • Global Adjustments: Exposure and Colour

Covers exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, white balance, and vibrance corrections. Teaches the logical order of global edits that maximises image quality before local work.

Lesson 3 • Local Adjustments and Retouching

Introduces masking, graduated filters, radial filters, and healing tools for targeted edits. Enables precise corrections that global adjustments cannot achieve.

Lesson 1 • Colour Correction and Grading

Covers scopes, primary correction, secondary grading, and LUT application for video. Transforms flat log footage into a finished, stylised visual look.

Lesson 2 • Audio Editing and Sound Design

Teaches audio syncing, level balancing, noise removal, and music bed integration. Addresses the audio layer that accounts for half of the viewer's perceived video quality.

Lesson 3 • Non-Linear Editing Fundamentals

Covers timeline structure, clip organisation, cuts, and transitions in NLE software. Establishes the editing logic and interface fluency needed for all subsequent video work.