Photography course? Thoughts?

[wade1]

I have the opportunity to take the following course:

How to Make Better Pictures (Instructor: Diana Hooper-Bloomfield):
Learn how to enhance your photographic skills and image-making! This course covers basic skills and techniques needed to make effective and compelling photographs. Topics include exposure, lighting, choice of film, filters, as well as design elements and composition. Slides and photographs will be used to illustrate ideas. Students will be given weekly assignments, and work will be critiqued. This course requires that each student must have a working knowledge of his or her own camera. Students are encouraged to bring work to the first class.

Any of you ever taken such a class? Do you think it would be worthwhile or is this something that can be accomplished with background reading and posting on various boards for critiques? (Its only $50/6weeks 3-4 hours once a week in class)

 

[Anonymous]

I took a beginners SLR class when I first bought my coolpix 995. The 995 is not a SLR, but has enough manual options that I needed to learn the lingo.

The course I took was at a local camera store that offers many types of course. We met every Saturday morning for 3 hours. The course lasted 6 weeks and cover all the basics that you mentioned above. Each week we had assignments and we brought in our pictures the next week and the class critiqued them. The next to the last week we had a scavanger hunt. The final week we critiqued everyone's pic's for the scavanger hunt.

I enjoyed the course thoroughly and learned a ton.

I'd like to take a class on Photoshop sometime.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

I'm self-taught. It's a bit more on the legwork to find stuff yourself, but a couple good books and a site or two ( www.thephotoforum.com is where I hang out. I think www.dgrin.com is another) have done good enough for me.

Now a photoshop class...that'd be worth the $$.