Northlight Academy
Learn the craft properly. Prove you did.
Proper courses, taught in order, with quizzes that actually mark themselves and a certificate at the end that anyone can check. Watch a lesson before you pay.
- 5
- Courses
- 7h 45m
- Hours of teaching
- 21
- Learners
- 9
- Certificates issued
Start here
The courses most people begin with.
Documentary Filmmaking on a Phone
A ten-minute film, shot and cut on the thing in your pocket
Idris Bello · 7 lessons · 1h 16m
Portrait Lighting with One Light
One light, one reflector, any face — the whole craft without a studio
Nadia Ferreira · 13 lessons · 2h 21m
Photography Fundamentals
Aperture, shutter, ISO — and why your photos don't look like the ones you like
Idris Bello · 9 lessons · 1h 12m
How it works
Watch a lesson first
Every course has at least one lesson open to everybody. No card, no account, no trial that quietly renews.
Work through it in order
Lessons unlock as you finish them, and longer courses release a section at a time so you don't binge and forget it.
Prove you finished
Pass the quizzes, finish the lessons, and the certificate is issued with a serial anybody can check on this site.
More from the school
Making a Living from Photography
Pricing, contracts and the awkward conversations nobody teaches you
Nadia Ferreira · 7 lessons · 1h 18m
Editing in Lightroom, Start to Finish
A repeatable edit in nine minutes, and a catalogue you can still find things in
Elena Kovács · 8 lessons · 1h 38m
Before you enrol
How long do I have access?+
Once you have enrolled on a course it stays on your dashboard. Your progress is saved lesson by lesson, so you can stop mid-module and pick it up on another device.
How are the quizzes marked?+
Automatically, by the same rule every time. A “select all that apply” question is right only when the chosen set is exactly the correct set — there is no partial credit, because half of a multi-select is a wrong answer.
What is on the certificate?+
The course, your name, the date and a serial. Anyone can type that serial into the checker on this site and confirm it without needing an account.
Do I need an account to look around?+
No. Every course page, its curriculum and its reviews are open to read. You only sign up when you want to enrol.
A certificate that means something
Every certificate carries a serial. An employer can type it into this site and see the course, the learner and the date it was earned — without an account.