ever thought of teaching a workshop?

[Roger Hicks]

Say you make $50 an hour. If I can deliver you materials that would take you 8 hours to read/learn on your own, then you already break even.

No, that's a false argument, twice over. First, you can't just download that 8 hours reading instantaneously: your course takes some time.

Second, learning time and earning time rarely overlap 1:1 like that. In fact, they never overlap in this case unless you make money from your photography. A more accurate comparison is between spending $400 on a course and... nothing... on watching television, or going for a walk.

Either that, or I'm missing something. Which is quite possible, as it's late, and I'm tired.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Roger Hicks]

I think it really depends on the student... I teach an online marketing workshop for artists, and a lot of the material I cover many here would concider extremely rudimentary (how to use flickr, how facebook works, how to resize a photo for the web etc) but I was asked to design the course for an arts organization whos member base is mostly in the 50+ and computer illiterate category. Most of my students come out thinking my course would be a bargain at twice the price as it tries to make simple, concepts which they thought where extremely scary and impossible to learn at their age/skill level.

It's all relative 🙂

By that same token, someone who'd never even attempted street photography will probably expect a lot less for that $100 than many people on this forum

Can't really argue with that...

Cheers,

R.

 

[SimonSawSunlight]

I have, with two other photographers. it was a nice week-end with capable participants eager to get better at what they were doing. it was about "street photography" and not about apertures and film speed. it's not necessarily about being better and therefore "teaching", but about sharing your experience.

that said, I would never pay for a workshop myself.

 

[newsgrunt]

I'm mentoring a number of young photographers and prefer to work this way vs workshop/paid setting. It's more about instilling knowledge over a longer term and seeing growth and maturity vs quick hits and get out.

Workshops need to be more than a day or two imo, to be of any use and even then most students will probably forget what they learned rather quickly unless they make the effort to put into practice what has been taught. and some things really can't be taught...like street shooting.

 

[Michiel Fokkema]

I teach: Basic camera technique, flash technique, studio, Lightroom, Photoshop, wedding and run an English spoken photographyschool here in the Netherlands.
Last weekend I hosted a 3 day street photography workshop in Paris.
It's great. I like to teach and people love to pay me for it.

 

[shadowfox]

I am preparing the material as we speak.

My workshop is titled "Personal Photography"
The goal is to make one realize what photography can do to improve their personal view on life as it did mine.

Style: Presentation, some hands on. Lots of discussions with emphasize on discovering the participant's specific interest in photography.

Four sessions, a week apart, 1.5 hours each.
I aim for 5 to 8 people to maximize interactions.

 

[Bill Clark]

I taught a workshop on "Classical" photography that I learned from my mentor, Monte Zucker. People were interested in the photographs I showed them and, I hate to generalize or be classified as a cynic, but people did like the results but wanted a button to push or some software to make the photos. As long as it's easy they were interested.

I quit teaching because of this attitude, at least from those who signed up with me. I belong to the Twin Cities Professional Photographers Association and I see many with the same philosophy.

I'm busy and I'm trying to retire as I will be 64 in June.

Hope you're having a great week!

 

[JamSee]

Will,

I am a fairly young photographer and I would not profess to be a photographic expert by any means. I think that what I do know about photography would be helpful to a beginner, however.

I am hoping to host classes during the summer time for beginners, charging £20 per person per class. I say 'class' but really I am planning on informal get-togethers where we can go for a wander and discuss various topics on our way. Taking between 2 and 5 people for 2 or 3 hours, I think that I could impart enough useful information to them during the time to make it worth their time and money.

More than anything, I think I would personally enjoy it because I would get to blab about photography for a while!

J

 

[jsrockit]

For someone paying $400, they wouldn't expect to become a Magnum photographer overnight either.

Oh believe me, some people think it IS that easy.