it's not necessary to go to a fine arts school to learn to be a very good photographer. in fact, given how a lot of photography schools seem to operate, i would say that they may teach you technical skills but turn your brain to mush trying to make you over into a socially aware photographer looking for a message in everything. if you can avoid the school-think of a photography school, i think they are good thing. otherwise, the technical skills for using a camera and getting good focus and exposure are not that hard to learn.
the hardest things to learn are to be able to see something from a new perspective and to be able to translate that into an image. that is very hard to teach, and most of the people who teach in degree programs teach because they can't do it. the ones that can do it are teaching via workshops and otherwise shooting for a living. Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "n/a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 11:53 AM Subject: Re: Film may not be dead..... > You know I am beginning to wonder if I would be wasting money to go to > school...I can't afford to go to someplace like UC, and the two junior > colleges out here seem to be stuck in the dark ages in so far as > photography goes. One barely has a program. The other, it's pretty > bad. City College seems viable, and has a good program I am told, but > then again 99% of it is geared towards traditional photography, at > least so far as I can tell though they do seem to be adding more > digital stuff towards the end. I think I can still learn a lot there, > but I'm not sure I can learn everything I want to...
