Aside from a basic photo class that I took in college, many years ago, I don't have a lot of knowledge about photography. I really love to take pictures, it relaxes me, but I don't know all of the technical jargon or manual settings on my camera. I have recently been getting alot of requests to do maternity shoots, which I love, but I really feel like I need to take some courses so that I can get even better. I don't have a lot of time so I was thinking of doing classes online. I looked into The Photography Institute, it sounds like a good start, however it is pricey at $1000 for a 24 week course. Does anyone have any info on this school or another that might be beneficial for me?
I'm taking photography classes at my local adult ed school. It's a community high school. Not sure where you live but I feel that I've grown so much since I started taking classes. They are very reasonable at $60 for a 12 week class. You might think about looking into an adult ed school, or local community center schools. It doesn't have to be a college for you to benefit from it.
Well I live in a small town and the technical school that is here only has a program that is m-f and all day, which I can't do. I'm going to keep looking, but thx Karen.
Is there a close community college? Several years ago I took an 8 week workshop at a local community college that was taught by a photographer. He liked my photos, so he had me come back a few times for some extra time with him (this was when film was still big), so I got to see the darkroom, and he talked a lot about the business in general. It was a good experience. Hopefully you have something like that close by.
@ Loni, there is a community college and they do offer a course in digital photography but the days and the hours aren't great. Having said that, I haven't ruled it out though.
@ Eleanor, I will check out both of those!
@ Becky, I'm looking into that, thx!
Hi Andrienne, I also looked into this online course.I contacted one of the men who had written a testimonial on the site to see what his opinion was.( He also happens to be the photography teacher that "Brenda Ashley" has been going to). His reply in a nut shell was that it was an awesome course and that he could highly recommend it. It is alot of money but seems to cover a alot in it.Most basic courses here are about $300 but then you would need to do other courses,they would all add up to well over the $1000 by the time you did all the courses that this one covers.
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I'm taking photography classes at my local adult ed school. It's a community high school. Not sure where you live but I feel that I've grown so much since I started taking classes. They are very reasonable at $60 for a 12 week class. You might think about looking into an adult ed school, or local community center schools. It doesn't have to be a college for you to benefit from it.
It's only a small start, but have you been through Nikon's site "how to" (I see you use a D90)... here for example: http://chsvimg.nikon.com/products/imaging/lineup/d90/en/advanced-function/
@ Eleanor, I will check out both of those!
@ Becky, I'm looking into that, thx!