Research Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Photography

Videos

Digital photography instructional videos
A Playlist of digital photography tutorials on advanced photographic techniques relating but not limited to comprehension and execution of visual communication through photography, camera use techniques, studio and natural lighting techniques, pre-production, post-production and digital editing.
Photography 101
a free series of 40 podcasts
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"Hosted by photography instructor Scott Wittenburg, this podcast is for anybody who wants to learn the secrets of taking better photographs traditionally or digitally. Tips on cameras, composition, exposure, darkroom techniques and step-by-step tutorials on manipulating digital images in Adobe Photoshop are among the topics to be covered. Subscribers are encouraged to submit questions to the host, who will address them in future podcasts."

Modern Photography
Digital Photography
This guide assumes that you know how to use your camera in automatic mode and that you have your manual handy so you can work out how to do the things described here using your camera.
On Photography
Susan Sontag examines a wide range of problems, both aesthetic and moral,
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... raised by the presence and authority of the photographed image in the lives of everyone today. A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world and at ourselves over the last 140 years. Must sign up for free access.
Pictorial Composition in Photography
This text is viewable through the Internet Archive - must sign up for free access.
Street Photography for the Purist
"Professional photographer Chris Weeks...compiled this photography ebook for the purists."
Another Photography Book
Chapter 8 - Photoshop
From the textbook "Digital Photography for Graphic Communications"
Digital Photography for Graphic Communications
a reference for a one-semester course in digital photography for graphic communications. Since digital cameras have mostly replaced colour scanners, graphic communicators need to capture images for use in magazines, catalogs, brochures, packages, signs, banners—all forms of printed materials—and also for eBooks, web sites, and apps.

The Open Content Photography Program
The Open Content Photography Program is being built to help people to learn professional photography. It is not a book about photography, it's a book about learning photography on your own.