Best Skillshare Courses and Coupons
We live in a world of excessive options, often leading to crippling cases of "analysis paralysis." This reality is particularly prevalent in the world of online learning. I can not even count the amount of YouTube videos I must search when I wish to learn a particular skill, until I finally find a half decent one or give up and teach myself. So when the people over at Skillshare reached outside to determine if I had been interested in checking out their library of courses, the answer was obviously yes. Spoiler Alert: Skillshare is offering our readers two free months of Premium classes. Read the review below then check out Skillshare for yourself.
Some quick background: I've been working professionally in photo/video/design/media/etc for approximately seven decades now, and I've yet to achieve a point where I think "Yup, I understand enough, time to stop learning." Early on, I had a membership to another learning site, which was fine, but it was a little intimidating if I'm going to be honest, classes were often quite long and I would need to click around a lot to find the stuff that really applied to me and, after I finally did, it became more like frustrating homework to attempt to sit down and observe rather than something exciting I looked forward to.
My first impression of Skillshare was that I was simultaneously intrigued and not overwhelmed; both terrific things. Each course has a screenshot of this lesson, together with the total length of this class, number of students who've obtained it, and its total rating.
So flourish, I just exploited the "Save" button that appears on every search result and added it to my classes to take later.
I feel like this is a fantastic moment to speak about what really struck me about my experience using Skillshare, and the way I think it sets itself apart from other online training classes. To try and sum it up in a sentence, other training applications I've tried have felt like classes, while Skillshare classes feel like conversations. The shift in mindset is almost jarring if you've grown accustomed to the "Hi, my name is Steve, and today we are going to learn about Lightroom while you watch me use my computer as well as drone on in you for an hour" mode of learning. Imagine you have to assist and hang out with a number of your favorite photographers for a while, that is what Skillshare feels like. There is this pleasant mix of a documentary-style video combined with the traditional "watch how I do this" that I think actually elevates the consumer experience.
Skillshare also combines a very great interface with some solid community building elements. You have the option to play the videos at .5x 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, and 2x speeds, which I found incredibly helpful as 1.25-1.5x ray seems to be my sweet place for podcasts and audiobooks, and was likewise a great (if sometimes amusing) speed to assist me zip through classes.
Every category includes "Community," "Your Project," and "All Projects" tabs for you to research. "Community" is where you could have discussions with other pupils who have taken the course, and often have your questions answered directly by the instructor. Every class includes an optional project to assist encourage you to head out and implement the lessons you learned from the class. You may then return to Skillshare and upload your project to get feedback from the instructor and fellow students. So you are not just getting courses to watch alone, you've got the opportunity to engage with, and be challenged by, an entire community learning along with you.
I've primarily focused on the photography courses since that is where the majority of my own work is spent, but Skillshare has loads of classes in just about any discipline you can think about. There are several cooking and wine focused classes in particular that have caught my attention and that I have already added to my list of stored classes. Following is a quick rundown of the courses I took and what I heard.
I was quite excited when I noticed that he has several classes on Skillshare so I immediately introduced them to my class list.
Absolutely, the course is 40 minutes long. Ben introduces himself and the equipment he typically uses, then talks about his philosophy and mindset when shooting environmental portraits. I then must "accompany" Ben on two different shoots; one on location and one in studio. This style of teaching really emphasized that sense of getting to be there with all the photographer rather than just sitting and listening to some lecture.
One of the things that really struck me about this course and that I will take with me in my own shoots, is how laid back Ben is. He does not seem to obsess over setting up the perfect scene, instead he chooses the environment as-is and finds the way his subject fits into it. He also revealed great ways to utilize natural light, even in settings where it might look like the light is lacking or less than ideal.
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Some quick background: I've been working professionally in photo/video/design/media/etc for approximately seven decades now, and I've yet to achieve a point where I think "Yup, I understand enough, time to stop learning." Early on, I had a membership to another learning site, which was fine, but it was a little intimidating if I'm going to be honest, classes were often quite long and I would need to click around a lot to find the stuff that really applied to me and, after I finally did, it became more like frustrating homework to attempt to sit down and observe rather than something exciting I looked forward to.
My first impression of Skillshare was that I was simultaneously intrigued and not overwhelmed; both terrific things. Each course has a screenshot of this lesson, together with the total length of this class, number of students who've obtained it, and its total rating.
So flourish, I just exploited the "Save" button that appears on every search result and added it to my classes to take later.
I feel like this is a fantastic moment to speak about what really struck me about my experience using Skillshare, and the way I think it sets itself apart from other online training classes. To try and sum it up in a sentence, other training applications I've tried have felt like classes, while Skillshare classes feel like conversations. The shift in mindset is almost jarring if you've grown accustomed to the "Hi, my name is Steve, and today we are going to learn about Lightroom while you watch me use my computer as well as drone on in you for an hour" mode of learning. Imagine you have to assist and hang out with a number of your favorite photographers for a while, that is what Skillshare feels like. There is this pleasant mix of a documentary-style video combined with the traditional "watch how I do this" that I think actually elevates the consumer experience.
Skillshare also combines a very great interface with some solid community building elements. You have the option to play the videos at .5x 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, and 2x speeds, which I found incredibly helpful as 1.25-1.5x ray seems to be my sweet place for podcasts and audiobooks, and was likewise a great (if sometimes amusing) speed to assist me zip through classes.
Every category includes "Community," "Your Project," and "All Projects" tabs for you to research. "Community" is where you could have discussions with other pupils who have taken the course, and often have your questions answered directly by the instructor. Every class includes an optional project to assist encourage you to head out and implement the lessons you learned from the class. You may then return to Skillshare and upload your project to get feedback from the instructor and fellow students. So you are not just getting courses to watch alone, you've got the opportunity to engage with, and be challenged by, an entire community learning along with you.
I've primarily focused on the photography courses since that is where the majority of my own work is spent, but Skillshare has loads of classes in just about any discipline you can think about. There are several cooking and wine focused classes in particular that have caught my attention and that I have already added to my list of stored classes. Following is a quick rundown of the courses I took and what I heard.
I was quite excited when I noticed that he has several classes on Skillshare so I immediately introduced them to my class list.
Absolutely, the course is 40 minutes long. Ben introduces himself and the equipment he typically uses, then talks about his philosophy and mindset when shooting environmental portraits. I then must "accompany" Ben on two different shoots; one on location and one in studio. This style of teaching really emphasized that sense of getting to be there with all the photographer rather than just sitting and listening to some lecture.
One of the things that really struck me about this course and that I will take with me in my own shoots, is how laid back Ben is. He does not seem to obsess over setting up the perfect scene, instead he chooses the environment as-is and finds the way his subject fits into it. He also revealed great ways to utilize natural light, even in settings where it might look like the light is lacking or less than ideal.
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