I know classes can't teach you everything, but what are some classes, for a kid in high school, could take that could help them to pursue photography as a career? Also college classes that could help in the furture?
The local community college here offers basic photography, history of photography, and other slightly more advanced classes. Also some community colleges offer not for credit courses on hobby type activities like photography.
See what your local community college offers. Most colleges I know of will allow high school students to enroll in classes even. I'd suggest taking some film classes, it really helps you perfect photography because you don't have the ability to take 500 shots (cheaply, at least, LOL) to get a good one. Plus working in a darkroom is absolute fun!
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Actually Melissa, the community college here is really good apparently cause i guess it and one other community college in the country will give you credits that can be transfered over to a college called Brooks Institue in California. which is apparently one of the best colleges for photography, so yeah thats a good idea. Chris, yeah i have been, started my sophomore year, last year, and plan on taking classes though college. And Heidi it's funny you say that because my photo teacher, i guess is a apparently one of the only photo teachers in the country who teaches, and makes students learn film photography first, then digital. I'm actually in my second semester of film photography using Professional Tmax400 B&W film and I can honestly say it was a whole new learning expience and sooooo much fun gettin to learn to take film out of the canasters and roll them on to reels in pitch black rooms and getting them into larger canisters with my friends and then the developing is kind of boring, but then the printing makes it all worth it! and right now were learning dodging and burning and texture screens, sort of enjoy it more then digital because the outcome is usually how i originally saw it, but this next semester, will be digital and studio/photoshop and I'm really excited for that too. Actually I just took a picture of our dark room for 1/10/11 haha. But thanks for eveybodys advice!
I did a bit of film ages ago in high school, but then did digital once that became around more. I'd go out and take hundreds of photos. Then a few years ago I took some film classes at a local college, and it completely changed how I photograph everything. We weren't allowed to crop in the 1st semester class, so that taught me how to frame/compose right in the camera (not that I was horrible with digital...but I usually cropped a lot of my stuff), which really cuts down on editing. And my numbers of photos have gone down dramatically since ingrained in my head is 36 exposures (12 now that I do medium format). So yeah... I'm a bit opinionated and think everyone should do film to really "learn" photography. Digital allows everyone to be lazy with no consequences. I'm a film snob, what can I say :D
Haha yeah, thats one of my favorite parts of film photography, learning composition and light exposure. Before taking photography at school I never touched the non-scene modes really and now my camera stays on manual, because I like having control of every aspect of the picture like with film. And medium format, I don't really get what it is, but I'm excited because the community college here (Spokane Falls community college, (SFCC)) teaches everything, film, digital, medium format and everything that they entitle. But medium format sounds really expensive since the digital ones cost between 10,000-60,000 dollars. So mind me asking what the difference is with medium format besides larger film/sensors, like why shoot with them instead of 36mm film/FF or cropped sensor?
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Actually Melissa, the community college here is really good apparently cause i guess it and one other community college in the country will give you credits that can be transfered over to a college called Brooks Institue in California. which is apparently one of the best colleges for photography, so yeah thats a good idea. Chris, yeah i have been, started my sophomore year, last year, and plan on taking classes though college. And Heidi it's funny you say that because my photo teacher, i guess is a apparently one of the only photo teachers in the country who teaches, and makes students learn film photography first, then digital. I'm actually in my second semester of film photography using Professional Tmax400 B&W film and I can honestly say it was a whole new learning expience and sooooo much fun gettin to learn to take film out of the canasters and roll them on to reels in pitch black rooms and getting them into larger canisters with my friends and then the developing is kind of boring, but then the printing makes it all worth it! and right now were learning dodging and burning and texture screens, sort of enjoy it more then digital because the outcome is usually how i originally saw it, but this next semester, will be digital and studio/photoshop and I'm really excited for that too. Actually I just took a picture of our dark room for 1/10/11 haha. But thanks for eveybodys advice!
I did a bit of film ages ago in high school, but then did digital once that became around more. I'd go out and take hundreds of photos. Then a few years ago I took some film classes at a local college, and it completely changed how I photograph everything. We weren't allowed to crop in the 1st semester class, so that taught me how to frame/compose right in the camera (not that I was horrible with digital...but I usually cropped a lot of my stuff), which really cuts down on editing. And my numbers of photos have gone down dramatically since ingrained in my head is 36 exposures (12 now that I do medium format). So yeah... I'm a bit opinionated and think everyone should do film to really "learn" photography. Digital allows everyone to be lazy with no consequences. I'm a film snob, what can I say :D