I have an opportunity to attend a vocational school for an 18 month Commercial Photography Program. This is there outline. Photographer’s what are you opinions? Or should I just go to an actual university?
MISSION: The mission of this program is to prepare students for employment or advanced training in commercial photography, portrait photography, wedding photography, industrial photography or the photographic digital lab industry.
Program of Study Includes:
This program consists of a planned sequence of courses.
PGY0180 – Black and White Specialist (500 hours) – Includes training in the areas of safety, principles of the digital camera, creative controls, lines of composition, perspective, available light exposures, and using a portable flash.
PGY0182 – Photography Specialist/Lab Technician (200 hours) – Content includes training in the following areas: Adobe Photoshop, making prints, scanning images, and outputting digital images.
PGY0183 – Portrait Photographer (500 hours) – Content includes training in basic portrait lighting, lenses and their effects, creating low and high key portraits of men, women and children, bridal portraits, business portraits, creating model composites, window light portraiture, and creating environmental portraits.
PGY0185 – Commercial Photographer (450 hours) – Includes training in computer tethered digital cameras, commercial lighting, multimedia presentations, table top product photography, architectural, and product photography and preparing a business plan.
Looks good, do it.
I have found you usually have a better student to instructor ratio in tech schools. And, often the classes are taught by working pros. The quality of education you receive is going to depend on the instructors, there are good and bad in Universities and Tech schools so it doesn’t matter.
February 12th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Looks good, do it.
I have found you usually have a better student to instructor ratio in tech schools. And, often the classes are taught by working pros. The quality of education you receive is going to depend on the instructors, there are good and bad in Universities and Tech schools so it doesn’t matter.
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