Online Photography Course
Portfolio Development
Have a pro at your side - online, all the time
 Learn how to put your very best foot forward, developing portfolios that display your finest photos. Outdoor Photographer columnist William Neill covers the art of editing your images, and developing thematic portfolios. His insightful lessons, challenging assignments, and invaluable critiques will focus and expand your creative potential. In this exciting online course, you will learn how to focus on the subjects that most inspire you. Give yourself this gift: master the art of editing and organizing your images.
Key Features
- Introduction
- Thinking in Themes
- Editing on a Technical & Aesthetic Level
- Grouping by Quality Level
- Adding New Images
- Improving Your Portfolio
- Where You Can Go
- Putting It All Together
- Develop portfolios with consistent quality.
- Learn to edit with thematic interest.
- Improve your presentations.
What You Get
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Benefits:
You get direct feedback on your photos from world-acclaimed, professional photographers. You can learn photography in this way from anywhere in the world.
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- Learn at your pace, with structure.
- Be guided by a real pro instructor.
- Get your photos critiqued every week.
- Join students from around the world.
- Go far beyond any book or DVD.
- Make great pictures, again and again!
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Instructor
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William NeillWilliam Neill, a resident of the Yosemite National Park area since 1977, is a landscape photographer concerned with conveying the deep, spiritual beauty he sees and feels in Nature. Neill's award-winning photography have been widely published in books, magazines, calendars, posters, and his limited-edition prints have been collected and exhibited in museums and galleries nationally, including the Museum of Fine Art Boston, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Vernon Collection, and The Polaroid Collection. In 1995, Neill received the Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for conservation photography. Neill is a member of Canon USA’s elite Explorers Of Light. Neill's assignment and published credits include National Geographic Books, Smithsonian, Natural History, National Wildlife, Conde Nast Traveler, Gentlemen's Quarterly, Travel and Leisure, Wilderness, Sunset, Sierra and Outside magazines. Also, he writes a bi-monthly column, On Landscape, for Outdoor Photographer magazine. Feature articles about his work have appeared in Life, Camera and Darkroom, Outdoor Photographer and Communications Arts, from whom he has also received five Awards of Excellence. His corporate clients have included Sony Japan, Bayer Corporation, Canon USA, Nike, Nikon, The Nature Company, and Sony Music/Classical. His work was chosen to illustrate two special edition books published by The Nature Company, Rachel Carson's The Sense of Wonder and John Fowles's The Tree. His photographs of natural patterns were published in his book, By Nature's Design (Exploratorium/Chronicle Books, 1993), and his images were featured in The Color of Nature (Exploratorium/Chronicle Books, 1996). A major portfolio of his Yosemite photographs has been published entitled Yosemite: The Promise of Wildness (Yosemite Association, 1994) for which he received The Director's Award from the National Park Service. A retrospective monograph of his landscape photography entitled Landscapes Of The Spirit (Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown, 1997) relates his beliefs in the healing power of nature. His latest book, Traces of Time, is the third book in the series with the Exploratorium and Chronicle Books. Check out his Deluxe Web site: www.williamneillphotography.com Note: Don't miss the fascinating BetterPhoto Interview with William Neill!
A Couple of Photos by the Instructor
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© William Neill |
A Couple of Student Photos
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View photos by previous students. You can make pictures like this too!
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© Robert D. Hayes
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Course Outline
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Lesson 1: Introduction: Find Your Focus
Assignment: Find your focus.
Lesson 2: Thinking in Themes
Assignment: Thinking of your photography in terms of themes.
Lesson 3: Editing on a Technical & Aesthetic Level
Assignment: Editing your work.
Lesson 4: Grouping by Quality Level
Assignment: Group your photos by quality.
Lesson 5: Adding New Images
Assignment: Adding new work to your portfolio
Lesson 6: Improving Your Portfolio
Assignment: Improve your portfolio.
Lesson 7: Where You Can Go
Assignment: Images for your portfolio - Part One.
Lesson 8: Putting It All Together
Assignment: Putting all the techniques together.
Review: Voting on Best Work
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© William Neill |
Requirements
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- Digital or film-based SLR, or medium or large format camera.
- Wide angle, telephoto lens.
- Tripod recommended.
- Desire to improve, expand vision.
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FAQ
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Is this course intended for advanced photographers or can beginning photographers participate as well? This 8-week course is open to photographers who have a strong understanding of basic camera controls, a desire to improve, and are selling or may wish to sell their work in the future. Do the techniques covered in this course pertain to any type of photography? Yes. However, I do specialize in landscapes and nature, and so can help more with those working with nature subjects. How much equipment will I need to assure my completion of each week's photography assignment? You will need a standard selection camera gear, including a camera (digital or film-based) with shutter speed and aperture controls, and lenses such a wide angle lens or wide angle zoom, a telephoto lens or telephoto zoom. A tripod is not required but is helpful. Will this course also include tips, hints, or other helpful information on marketing one's work? Not specifically. The course is designed to improve the level of your work, and your presentations in general, including for publishers, galleries, competitions and even family slide shows! If you are looking for specifics about submitting images, who to contact, and general marketing techniques, please see other BetterPhoto.com Pro classes.
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Do I have to be online at any specific time?
No, you do not need to be online at any specific time. The lessons are sent to your email and you are also provided the Campus Square - where you interact with your classmates and instructor. This is also where you upload your photos to be critiqued by your instructor. The instructors are very punctual and respond quickly.
Will I have access to the instructor to ask questions during the photo course?
Absolutely! Students can ask questions in the special Q&A forum set up in the course's Campus Square, or can ask the instructor via email.
Do you offer a money back guarantee?
Yes. We are confident that you will fully enjoy our courses. All the same, for our 8-week classes, we offer a 100% money-back guarantee before the Wednesday that Lesson #3 is sent out. If for any reason, you are not satisfied and let us know that you would like to withdraw before the Wednesday that Lesson #3 is sent, you will be promptly refunded.
For our 4-week courses, we offer a 100% money back guarantee before the Wednesday that Lesson #2 is sent out from BetterPhoto. If for any reason you are not satisfied and you let the ordering department know that you would like to withdraw before the Wednesday that Lesson #2 is sent, you will be refunded within 7 days. After the second lesson has been sent out, no refunds will be given.
If you have further questions about this course, feel free to contact us via the Contact link below.
Only $348.00 USD
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