Udemy’s Photography Masterclass

https://www.udemy.com/course/photography-masterclass-complete-guide-to-photography/

A good technical introduction to photography and the first course I took. I liked the structure and the no-nonsense, concise approach. Overall lacks a little soul though. The material is pretty objective, which is good, but I never had the sense of learning from true masters of the art. When I looked up the portfolios of the presenters, they seemed more capable than the impression I got from the course.

Fundamentals of Photography by The Great Courses

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/fundamentals-of-photography

24-lecture photography course. Could be better structured and has some striking inconsistencies (“you can do this course with a basic camera”, few lectures later: “my camera is on aperture priority at f2.8 [on full frame] to have nice subject separation”). Still gold, thanks to the genuine approach and Joel Sartore’s charm. It’s more like having a fireside chat with a photography master, than taking a video course. Also, the candidness and simplicity of the man’s approach makes you believe that you can actually do this – and most of the times indeed you can.

The Photographer’s Eye by Michael Freeman

A lovely book about composition. Concise, to-the-point, visual, as a photography book should be. Just browsing through its two hundred pages already impacted my compositional awareness. Very well worth reading.

Architectural Photography by Adrian Schulz

My short post is here.

Finding Vivian Maier

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2714900/

A decent documentary attempt at exploring the life of a peculiar woman. Ms. Maier took 150,000 images throughout her life, plenty of them absolutely brilliant, and apparently showed them to noone.

Holding Your Camera Properly

Photographylife article

FSI vs BSI CMOS sensors

https://www.tucsen.com/learning/demystifying-specifications-sensor-model

Quantum Efficiency of CCD sensors

https://blog.astrofotky.cz/pavelpech/?p=864

Greats of photography that I’ve encountered or researched.

Tim Wallace

The heaviest edits that still work somehow.

https://www.ambientlife.co.uk/index.html

Todd Bigelow

Superb photo stories & great educator

https://archive.toddbigelowphotography.com

Zoltán Molnár

https://molnarzoltan.com/

Elek Papp

http://www.pappelek.hu/

Eve Arnold

“It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”

Vivian Maier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier

Vivian Maier was a French-American amateur photographer. She made her living as a nanny, and had an apparent obsession abount documenting the world around her, taking 150k+ stills, hundreds of audio logs and several shortfilms. Discovering her work by accident posthoumusly adds to the charm of her story, but it’s hard to argue the value of her photography.

Vibrating human emotions and a good sense of humor are two things that stuck with me after browsing through her life’s work. If your time permits, watch this movie about her life: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2714900/