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I divide the teaching of photographic subject matter into two categories of instruction; artistry, and craft. Artistry is the study of all that ephemeral stuff that goes into making a good photo; learning to see, exploring your emotional response to a scene, and learning how to translate that into the vocabulary of photography. There's nothing magical about artistry; it's an intellectual process that you can learn. Craft skills are what you employ to realize your artistic ideas. In the case of photography, they're basically the button pushing skills. Knowing how to focus, knowing how to configure your camera for particular types of light, how to ensure that your image is bright enough, that you've captured motion the way that you want, and so on. In this course, we're going to be studying craft; specifically the craft skills required to use your particular camera. And in this course, we'll be assuming a certain level of understanding of basic photographic theory. For example, in…

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