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Learn and Master Photography Lessons Outline

Posted by Matt McWilliams in Legacy News on March 8th, 2010

Learn & Master Photography is truly beginning to take shape.

Our content team is hard at work outlining the lessons and working with the instructor, Vince Wallace, to write out the lesson scripts, prepare for shooting, and even begin to prepare the lesson books.

I just got the lessons outline for the first half of the course. Here it is:

Lesson 1: Your Digital SLR Camera

An Overview of the Digital SLR Camera????? Your Camera Gear

The Mechanical Parts of the Camera????? Your Camera As a Computer????? Holding Your Camera

Lesson 2: Camera Basics

Exposure and Shutter????? Aperture and Depth of Field????? Focal Length

Lesson 3: Digital File Management

File Management and Image Transfer????? Organization Software

Lesson 4: Color Management

Light and Color????? Color Managing Your Environment

Color Managing Your Camera????? Color Managing Your Monitor????? Color Managing Your Printer

Lesson 5: All About the Lens

The Focusing System????? Drive Modes????? Shooting Modes

Characteristics of Lenses????? Lens Choices and Focal Length????? Focal Length Assignment

Lesson 6: Framing and Composing Your Images

Principles of Art: Magnetism????? Magnetism Assignment

Principles of Art: Rule of Thirds????? Rule of Thirds Assignment????? Principles of Art: Leading Space

Leading Space Assignment????? Principles of Art: Juxtaposition????? Juxtaposition Assignment

Lesson 7: Elements of Art with Light Metering

Elements of Art: Line????? Elements of Art: Shape

Elements of Art: Form????? Light Metering????? Elements of Art and Light Metering Assignment

Lesson 8: More Elements of Art

Elements of Art: Positive and Negative Space????? Elements of Art: Value

Positive/Negative Space and Value Assignment????? Elements of Art: Color Color Assignment

Elements of Art: Contrast????? Elements of Art: Texture????? Contrast and Texture Assignment

Lesson 9: White Balance

What is White Balance?????? Kelvin Temperature????? Controlling White Balance????? White Balance Assignment

Lesson 10: The Triad and ISO

The Triad Concept??????????? ISO??????????? Controlling Light with ISO??????????? ISO Assignment

Lesson 11: The Principles of Design and Shutter Speed

The Principles of Design????? The Shutter and Shutter Speed????? The Shutter and Shutter Speed Assignment

Lesson 12: The Principles of Design and Aperture

Aperture??????????? Depth of Field??????????? Principles of Design??????????? Aperture Assignment

Lesson 13: Full Manual Control

TRIAD Review??????????? Lens Filters??????????? Artificial Lighting

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Coming Attractions in 2010

Posted by Matt McWilliams in Legacy News on January 5th, 2010

Happy New Year again!

Yesterday we had our annual “State of the Company” meeting. We reviewed 2009, which was awesome, and we looked ahead to 2010.

So I wanted to share some of the “Coming Attractions” for this year.

As I previously shared with you, Learn and Master Photography will be released in approximately August of 2010. Our production team has already begun laying out sets, writing content, and preparing to begin shooting soon. This is going to be a GREAT course!

In more big news, we are going to release THREE Spotlight Series courses this year! Here they are:

Finger Style Guitar - When we polled our Learn & Master Guitar customers and asked them which course they wanted next, this was the overwhelming winner.
Bass Guitar - So many of you have asked for it…so here it comes!
One additional Guitar Spotlight to be named later - There are two possibilities here and I am personally super excited about both of them!

I have also hired an assistant, Anitha Jain, who many of you will surely be introduced to over time. Already, much of the work done behind the scenes here is done by her and we are looking forward to a great 2010 together!

2010 is really shaping up to be an exciting year…a very busy one and one that will surely lead to a lot of profits for everyone.

Don’t forget that Gifts and New Year’s Resolutions make first quarter a hit for Legacy. Now is the time to get started!

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Learn and Master Photography

Posted by Matt McWilliams in Legacy News on November 13th, 2009

I just got the following email from Emily in our content department about our next full course, Learn and Master Photography, coming out next year.? Exciting times around here at Legacy Learning Systems!

Legacy team-

It?s with great excitement that I announce our new photography instructor, Vince Wallace. He comes to us with a wealth of teaching experience and photography expertise. Vince currently teaches introductory photography classes at Vanderbilt and his photography company is called Silver Hill Images.

He?s going to be fantastic! Be sure to welcome him as you see him around the offices in the coming weeks.

Welcome, Vince!

I just met Vince after getting this email and he is an awesome guy.? I am very much looking forward to getting to know him and to helping you promote this exciting new course next year!