'Photography Online Course for Scientists' open video collection

Course introduction
The course aims to provide the basic knowledge of how to shoot good quality scientific photos. We provide a step-by-step guide on how to shoot photographs for scientific use, whether it is an online publication, a print media, a presentation or a poster. Together with course leader Tiina Puputti you go through the photography essentials, familiarize yourself with necessary photography equipment, camera settings, learn to work with scene composition and lighting.

Study the whole course in MyCourses
The course is open for all Aalto University members, and fully independent. From January 2025 also welcome students and staff from other Finnish Universities and colleges as well as some EU universities. If you are study in Aalto University or can use HAKA (you are a member of any Finnish university, polytechnic or a research institutions) credentials to login and want to study the whole course which includes videos, assignments and quizzes, please enrol for the full course in MyCourses: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/view.php?id=30655. 

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How to use our materials
Please note that all rights to materials released here belong to Aalto University and are published under Creative Common licence CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, which means you can use it for studying purposes with your colleagues or for your students, but you cannot sell it, transform or mix it, and you have to credit appropriately if you use it in your teaching materials. Please learn about licence type here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en.

Important notes:

• Read more about our course here.
• Contact the course teacher Tiina Puputti to learn more about photography workshops and courses at tiinamaria.puputti(at)gmail.com.
  
• If you cannot enrol to this course, please contact student support (find button at the bottom of this page).
• Course producer, director and visual designer Valeria Azovskaya.