Michael Freeman
Perfect Exposure
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Award-winning photographer Michael Freeman teaches you how to choose the right exposure for your photograph on this online photography course.
Michael will teach you step-by-step how to get the right amount of light in every photo, and how to use exposure creatively in your photographs.
Choosing the exposure for a photograph is both alarmingly simple and infinitely complex. Michael will look at how to use metering on your camera, and how to understand the methods to adjust light meters. He'll take you through the "exposure triangle" - the 3 camera settings you need to use to control brightness.
He'll explain the 12 key exposure situations, and how to evaluate which exposure techniques to use and when.
You'll be taking photos and experimenting with exposure as you learn with Michael.
Choose Expert option for personal feedback on your photographs from Michael Freeman.
You'll learn:
- finding the right exposure for you and your photography
- how to use aperture, shutter and ISO sensitivity
- using exposure for your audience
- how exposure works
- handling different lighting conditions
- basic metering
This Perfect Exposure Course will equip you with the skills and confidence to be able to handle any lighting condition, however unusual, both technically and stylistically.
You'll need:
- The course book is Michael Freeman's Perfect Exposure.
This course is suitable for photographers wanting to learn more about using their camera and taking photographs, through to professionals who want to hone their photographic exposure skills with Michael Freeman.
Your tutor:
Michael Freeman is an award-winning photographer and author. He's shot photos for many of the world's leading brands and also teaches Learning with Experts' Photography Foundation course.
Time to complete this exposure in photography course:
Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 9 hours 15 minutes to complete including:
- Video lessons: 1 hour 15 minutes in total
- Course notes: 30 minutes per lesson
- Assignment: at least 1 hour per lesson
- Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson
- tutor feedback review (Expert level): 15 minutes per lesson
The course includes:
- On-demand video lessons - presented by Michael Freeman
- lifetime access to the video, notes and interactive class
- flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like
- downloadable lesson notes
- practical (optional) photography assignments
- access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop
- small interactive online classroom chat online to students from around the world
Ready to get started?
Just add the course to your basket above - choose the 'Expert' option for personal feedback from Michael on your photos.
Any questions? Contact us by clicking on the orange speech symbol - we'd love to hear from you.
Lessons
What You’ll Learn
Explore the lessons and topics covered across the course.
Cameras offer an increasingly sophisticated range of methods for getting the exposure in some way ‘correct’, but though the result is a wonderful choice, there’s also a chaotic array of methods and jargon.
My job here is to cut through this nonsense, and my model is, as always, the way professionals like myself think and work.
You'll learn what average brightness means, camera metering, aperture and shutter priority and exposure compensation.
There are three camera settings that each control the brightness of the image you capture—aperture, shutter speed and ISO—and this lets you choose a combination to get any particular exposure, hence the expression exposure triangle.
Using it efficiently means knowing clearly what your priorities are for any shot. Apart from controlling the light, the aperture and shutter speed each do another job for the image.
Aperture affects depth of field while shutter speed affects motion blur, and you may want less or more of either in any specific shooting situation.
ISO raises the sensitivity when you need it, but the result is noise, which has no redeeming qualities, so this just increases the compromises you need to make when light levels are low.
Regardless of subject, there are just 12 basic lighting situations in photography, and each one needs a particular set of techniques. Become familiar with them and you will quickly be able to assign any scene in front of you to one of these—and know what technique to apply.
In this lesson we'll look at range, low and high contrast.
In this lesson we'll take everything you've already learned and temper it with judgment and creativity. In exposure, there is no wrong and there is no right.
If you embrace this, you can start to experiment with different styles of imagery that go beyond the obvious and average. Like any artist, you then have to rely on your judgment. Style in exposure depends heavily on deciding what the most important tones are in the picture—and then choosing how you want them to appear.
Learning options
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£45.00
Learn alongside others with a collaborative, flexible learning experience.
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Common Questions
Answers to the most common questions about learning with us.
Our online classroom is designed to help you learn from experts in a collaborative, social environment alongside a small group of learners.
Each lesson combines expert-led videos with optional assignments, giving you the opportunity to apply what you’ve learned and share your work with others. You can take part in ongoing discussions, ask questions, exchange feedback, and learn from a community of like-minded people from around the world.
By learning together in a small, supportive group, you benefit not only from expert guidance but also from shared ideas, perspectives, and experiences—helping you stay engaged and retain what you learn.
You can start your course at any time within 12 months of purchase. Once you begin, you’ll have lifetime access, so you can revisit lesson videos and notes whenever you like.
Courses are designed to fit around your schedule, allowing you to learn at your own pace. Each lesson video is typically 30–40 minutes, and we recommend around an hour for each assignment.
Both Peer and Expert options give you full access to the course content, including lesson videos, downloadable notes, assignments, and a collaborative online classroom with up to 20 learners. You’ll also have lifetime access to revisit the material at any time.
The Expert option includes everything in Peer, plus personalised assignment feedback, direct messaging with your expert tutor, and a certificate of completion.
With the Expert option, you can interact directly with your tutor throughout the course. You’ll typically have one week per lesson to ask questions and receive feedback on your assignments, with as much interaction as you need during that time.
Your tutor access begins when you enter the classroom and follows the course schedule (for example, a four-lesson course usually runs over four weeks). If you need more time or support, our team is here to help.