Yesteday the OU opened the website for the course and we were able to the first lessons, and to upload some pictures for everybody to see. One of the students was calculating how many picture the students would upload in the next 10 weeks.

We have 1500 students, yes 1500, who will upload around 10 pictures each per week for 10 weeks. This is 150.000 pictures in the next 10 weeks.

The course material looks very good and I will place the exercise photos in this blog and on my website. The first exercise is to take some photos of a bottle looking from a light, colour and position. This will give us three photos. I will try to do this during this week, although the course isn't started yet. Although the course is working with Photoshop Elements 5 some of the students, me included, will work in Photoshop CS3.

the first lesson is about interesting images and what that means. Of course this is different for everybody, but they try to develop your eye for this based on techninal and compositional qualities. there is a part of the lesson that goes about the rule of thirds (follow the link to see a description within Wikipedia).

That was it for today

Theo