Hey there, welcome to the course. I'm so excited to have you here because I'm sure this course is going to give you to know how and experience to become a creative and confident smartphone photographer. I'm Karen and I'll be your teacher. I have been a professional photographer for over 25 years, and I still love everything about photography, and specialized in travel photography, humanitarian photography and family documentaries. My core subject is people, always people and it has been like that from the start of my career. I'm driven to capture the unicity strength and beauty of every human on the planet.

As a humanitarian photographer, my one goal is to create powerful images of people rising above their circumstances, and to tell their stories of courage, resilience, joy and hope. I am forever in awe of the power of a compelling photograph. And the one thing that makes me the happiest is when I can give back to the world through my photography. Photography can change worlds, which is why I want nothing more than to train as many aspiring photographers as possible. I want you to be able to capture your world and share your stories with a unique and authentic vision. Yes, you have one, you just need to discover it.

Because I believe that it's not the camera that creates beautiful picture. It's the person behind the camera. It's about your skills, your vision, and your unique experiences as a human being. I created this course because I know your smartphone camera has the potential to take great pictures and I want to show you how to do that. It's the only camera you have Wish you always and right now is the perfect time to learn how to take your smartphone photography to the next level. smartphone photography is often overlooked or set aside as a serious form of photography because it has some limitations, but it also has great opportunities.

So a big hurry to you for seeing that for wanting to invest in your smartphone photography skills. Worldwide 1.2 trillion digital pictures are taken every year. That's 40,000 pictures every second of every minute of every hour of every day, the whole year round. 85% of those pictures are taken with a smartphone. When we do the math on that one, it's 34,000 pictures taken with a smartphone every second. Whether you take pictures as a hobby just for fun for your business, your blog or your brand.

Learning the language of smartphone photography is gonna set you apart from just about everybody else. In business, it's an opportunity to distinguish yourself with personal and consistent on brand photography. In life, it's a chance to create beautiful intangible memories and to wild depends off of your friends and family. Because honestly, most people don't know how to make the most of their smartphone camera. But after this course, you will use mighty smartphones superstar. By the end of this course you will know how to take control of your smartphone camera with the camera app, how to make the most of the light that's available to you how to choose the best composition for the situation and how to edit your pictures to give them that little nudge to greatness.

All in all, how to create compelling and expressive pictures consistently. There are a few things I want you to keep in mind. smartphone camera has some limitations you'll just have to accept some things can't be done with a smartphone camera. Any form of photography, including smartphone photography is a merger between technique and vision, craft and creativity. I see it as a dance between control and letting go. It's important to develop both sides without craft you get a blurry picture.

And without creativity you get a boring picture. If you want to see results. You have to put in the work, photography's learned by doing. That's why I've included photo assignments. Some assignments are aimed at developing your creative side, and some are exercises to practice your craft. But regardless of the aim of the assignment, I want you to use everything you learned in realizing them when it's a creative assignment incorporates the technical lessons you've learned, and become creative when you're practicing your craft.

So you'll learn to merge craft and creativity right from the beginning of your smartphone photography journey. Are you ready to start, hop on over to your first module and I will see you in there. Happy photographing