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What to Expect?
This course contains information which will help you to start knowing about the creative use of light in photography. In broad terms this course is divided in 2 parts. First part will be about knowing light. It contains information about basic character of light. The second part is about the practical applications of light in photography. Here we will introduce concepts which are defined over the time to use light in a effective manner.

Knowing Light
We will start by looking light in scientific terms and then see how it contributes in seeing things. After that we will move to the properties of light which are important to photography.

Practical Applications in Photography
This part will start from learning about exposure. A photograph is formed when light hit a recording surface (film or digital sensor). Exposure is basically determining how much light is the right choice for recording the image. After learning about the exposure we will move to the basics of lighting.
 



 

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