Right. Well, with a digital camera you can probably figure out all of that on your own just by futzing around with the camera for a weekend. The difficult part

Right. Well, with a digital camera you can probably figure out all of that on your own just by futzing around with the camera for a weekend. The difficult part comes in understanding light and understanding composition, neither of which the course really seems to talk about. No one has ever needed to know about 3d colourspaces ( http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs178-11/applets/locus.html http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs178-11/applets/locus.... ) in order to take a good picture. However, good editing is about 30% of the effort behind a good photo; you might come out a better PHOTOGRAPHER but your photos won't necessarily be that much improved. Anyways, the secret is to look at what other people are doing and to take as many pictures as possible.