Learning: Favourite Skillshare Classes

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** All images here shot on iphone, edited with VSCO app.

(Dawn.. taken on our recent road trip across France)

Ever since I won the mailchimp scholarship for a premium membership on Skillshare, I’ve been taking many classes here and working hard on food photography and styling, doing all my homework with each class.

I had previously paid for a couple of classes on design and photography.

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Here are some of my favourites if you’re looking to improve your Instagram, photography and food styling. It also encouraged me to cook and bake more so that I have props and subjects to style and shoot.

Above: Homemade tuna sweet corn pastry puffs.

1. All of Mariya Popandopulo’s classes are great and I’ve taken all 7 of them. She’ll be teaching a stop motion class soon and I can’t wait!  img_1828

Taiwanese breakfast, mee sua (vermicelli in a starchy gravy served with white pepper, vinegar and corriander)

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Above: Homemade quiche, slightly burnt, but tasted good!

Here’s some of my homework samples on light, shadows, movements and composition :)

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Above: Tomatoes and raspberries from my in-laws garden in France

2. Instagram continues to evolve quickly and regularly like all social channels and it’s hard to figure out engagement and fan numbers.

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Accounts like mine are not specific themed like food only or architecture or landscapes. The popular accounts with a lot of fans then to be very specific as multi themed subjects don’t always appeal to everyone.

I started my instagram for fun as my personal creative outlet before I got featured as a user and suddenly numbers got competitive. My blog has always been about “Food, Fun and life” and because I have multiple interests from food to art and architecture, my feed isn’t consistent.

I took a course by Anna Kay  on building a more consistent presence and it was helpful to streamline and create some sense of consistency despite multiple interesting subjects.

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And there’s Twheat that I was following for a few years now. He used to live in Hong Kong and got spotted and then hired to join the Instagram team, so he went back to the US.

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His class offers great tips if you plan on monetising with Instagram.

Then some tips on Flatlays for Instagram also by Anna Kay.

Food photography for Instagram, a class by Adam Goldberg is also another fun one.

3. DSLR Food styling and photography  by Brit + Co for bloggers

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4. My first class on skillshare before becoming a premium member was with Anne Ditmeyer on designing maps. I’m taking a couple of her InDesign courses at the moment.

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