Hey guys, welcome to the photography fundamentals course. My name is Matt and I'm going to be walking you through step by step of how your camera works and how to take photographs, you might be at the very beginning of your journey, and you haven't even taken a photograph yet. Or maybe you've been shooting for a few years. And you want to take a step back and understand what's actually going on inside that camera. So you can take it off the auto mode, and actually get into manual and really control what you're doing. Either way, no matter where you are, I hope this course is a big help for you.

We're going to talk about shutter speed, ISO aperture, white balance, and a whole lot more. If you get stuck or you don't understand something, the beauty of the video course that you can just watch it again. So make sure you understand each piece as you move along. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to respond. You can use this platform to just send us questions and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. If you're curious about my background, this Stick around.

If not, that's totally cool, you can jump ahead to the next board and get going right on the course material. But I've been photographing since about 2009. And I am self taught, actually went to school for electrical engineering. And I was the design engineer for seven and a half years, I made circuit boards and wrote firmware and code and all sorts of nerdy stuff like that. And about halfway through that, as an engineer, I bought a camera, and I taught myself how to shoot. And I kind of got bit by the photography bug, which I assume you have if you're watching this course, and things just grew.

And after a few years, I found myself photographing weddings. And that grew as well. And I was doing more and more weddings and more and more shoots and had to pick either engineering or photography. So I finally jumped ship and I went over to photography full time, and started the company blue flash. We're based in Rhode Island, and we are primarily wedding photographers, and we do over 100 weddings a year now. So things got pretty crazy pretty fast, but it's been awesome and I found that the biggest hurdle for a lot of photographers is that beginning point in their career where they've got the camera in the hands, and they don't quite understand how to control it on manual mode.

And so they fall back to auto or shutter priority or aperture priority, and don't really know what the cameras doing or what they're doing to the camera in order to get the folders are getting. And that works for a time. But after a while, it really does help to know exactly what's going on so that you have full control, and you can start taking more advanced and complex photographs. So I hope this course gives you the foundation that you need in order to get to that point. It's pretty liberating and your photography will definitely take multiple steps forward once you get this under your belt. So stick with me through the course.

If you get confused or you're stuck, just rewatch the video. And if you have a lot of questions you can ask us down below and I'd be happy to get back to you as soon as I can. So let's get to it.