formal education

[Dave H]

Hi,

Any of you got any formal Photography education ?

 

[Toby]

Postgraduate Diploma in Photojournalism University of Wales Cardiff (1 year course)

haven't stopped learning though

 

[rover]

I have take community college classes which I guess takes me out of the "We don't need no stinking classes" category.

 

[peter_n]

I'm of the "we don't need no educashun" philosophy and I'm afraid it shows. 🙁

 

[x-ray]

I had some very lame courses in college in the sixties and did a residence study with Ansel Adams in the 1975. Also did a residence study with Arnold Newman in the seventies. Also had some very good 1st hand one on one with Imogen Cunningham.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=5045

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I can't vote in this poll. There is no option for "self-taught" or similar that excludes Internet, that doesn't say "none" for qualifications. 😀

Not gloating, just pointing it out...you'd be surprised how many people have gone about it that way.

 

[back alley]

i'm mostly self taught, from lots of practice (mistakes) and reading books (in the old days).
i have taken some 1 day seminars like the nikon school, also evening classes at a local community college and some longer workshops through the university.

i have also taught some courses in basic photography for a community college (at the local prison) and some evening classes for a city college here.

joe

 

[ray_g]

Good grief, Joe. Now you have created convicts running around with GAS!! :bang:

Just kidding.

 

[cary]

Formal Education

Formal Education

BFA degree Brooks Institute of Photography.

Cary Chin

 

[OldNick]

Completed Air Force Photographic Officer correspondence course in the 1950s as part of my Air Force Reserve training. Haven't found much calling for aerial reconasance work since then. I did take a friend up in a Piper Cub so that he could photograph the lot where he was planning to build a house, using my old Speed Graphic.

 

[f/stopblues]

I clicked the "A levels" for the photo1 course I took from the community college straight out of high school. It was my diving board for the hobby, including basic darkroom technique. Other than that I was self-taught from experimentation and *lots* of reading at the local Barnes & Noble and Borders. 1-million espressos and thousands of frames later, here I am!

Chris

 

[egpj]

I did read the Ansel Adams three book series but that is about it.

 

[denishr]

Completely self-taught, in the days predating the Internet 🙂
However, the 'net helped a lot in giving me GAS 🙁

Joking aside, I've never had any formal photo education - but I was exposed and introduced to photography in primary school, if I remember correctly. But, that didn't really take hold.
It was at about the age of 19-20 that I got my first camera and started photography for real. I read everything about photography that I could lay my hands on - I read many books and began to learn to distinguish good photos from bad (or average snapshots). I also began immediately to process my own stuff - developing negs and making prints in the local community lab.

I also read a lot about visual arts in general - I think the elementary reading in painting (composition, light, color, etc.) is mandatory for any would-be shooter... Being a movie fan at that time also helped, I guess.

Denis

 

[stet]

I ticked the seminars box because that seems the closest to the photography classes I take at my local arts center. They're 10-week sessions, starting with "what's an f/stop" Photo I to basically paying for darkroom time in Photo III (i.e., no more real instruction at that point). Some people have taken Photo III for 15 years. This will be my first time in Photo III, and I'll have to work around the vet who's been the only student using the 4x5 enlarger for the last 8 years.

I guess you can never learn as much, as quickly as in Photo I, but after those basics I basically picked up everything else from the 770 stacks in the library (currently with Feininger'sLight and Lighting in Photography) and from the Net, especially here (cheers, RFF!).

 

[johne]

Since this is about education, one might note that the correct verb form on the last option should be "learned." Just a thought. Johne

Or perhaps it is about "ejukation."

 

[kbg32]

MFA - Cranbrook Academy of Art - Carl Toth teacher.
BFA - School of Visual Arts, main teacher influence at this time was Tad Yamashiro, assistant to Diane and Alan Arbus.

Lots of assisting and reading as well.

 

[Roman]

Since this is about education, one might note that the correct verb form on the last option should be "learned." Just a thought. Johne

Or perhaps it is about "ejukation."

AFAIK that is only true in American English - in British English the 'learnt'-spelling is quite correct!

Roman

 

[johne]

Here in the hills and the South "Larned" is still preferred. Johne

Then George Bernard Shaw said the only true, pure English is spoken in Dublin.

 

[peter_n]

And he was right too! 🙂 Dubs truly believe that still I think...

 

[johne]

Peter_n
But is that the people in Dublin, Erin, or Dublin, Kentucky. [Just a few miles south of here]. 🙂)