The Compelling Image provide you with the ability to learn photography online - covering a wide range of topics including portraits, landscapes, black & white, digital slr and more. Our professional photography teachers guide you through every step of the learning process and ensure you get everything you need to present amazing stories through imagery.
Choose from our range of photography courses:
You may have asked yourself, "Why don't the photos I make look like those of the pros?" It must be the equipment, right? The pros have tons of lighting equipment and that must be their secret. Well, the answer is NO! You don't need lighting equipment to take great photographs. All you need is light. Light is everywhere and you can use it to your advantage. This online photography course will teach you to see light. In fact, the whole world is one big studio. The lights are already on; you just need to see how to use them.
Making pictures with a macro lens allows you to discover the beauty, complexity, and design in things overlooked and taken for granted in our everyday lives. This online photography course will open your eyes to the almost endless ways to explore with your camera, those objects in nature and technology that surround you and show you just how to enhance their intricacies and nuances to produce works of art - in a photograph.
Have you ever witnessed a landscape so beautiful it took your breath away? As photographers, we are constantly trying to capture and save that moment forever. Whether you live in an area with deserts, oceans, forests, or plains, this online photography course will help you improve your eye for landscape compositions so you can share those moments of awe with others.
A 50mm lens once came "standard" with every SLR camera purchase. Then this inconspicuous, low-light performer fell from "vogue," replaced by medium-telephoto, medium-aperture others. Lost was the flexibility and control this simple and effective optical design had to offer. These online photography classes will have you taking a second and further look at just what this compact powerhouse of a lens has to offer.
While black and white photographs were among the very first photographs taken, they are now frontier in digital photography. Digital cameras record light differently than film cameras and differently than the human eye. This black and white online photography course is the first in a series of three courses designed to help digital photographers see, think and express in light and shadow, black and white. It will cover how the human eye and the camera record light and how to begin to express yourself in the scale of white, gray and black tones.
Fine Art Photography is traditionally thought of as an image captured masterfully. Think of the works of Paul Strand, Irving Penn, and Dorothea Lange. They have all made images that are rightfully placed in museums and photography history books. This online photography course is designed to stretch the genre, along with your own talent as a photographer. The result just might be an expressively creative fine art masterpiece of your own.
Starts on 24 Jun 2013 (Enroll before 01 Jul 2013)
Starts on 24 Jun 2013 (Enroll before 01 Jul 2013)
Starts on 24 Jun 2013 (Enroll before 01 Jul 2013)
Starts on 24 Jun 2013 (Enroll before 01 Jul 2013)