Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina Manley wrote: >>> I did take the course - 26 years ago when I was living in Iran. It was the > only way I had to learn about photography at that time and place. There > are so many opportunities now, that I'm not sure I'd go with a > correspondence course again. "Hands-on" is so much more valuable for > learning, not to mention much faster feedback than correspondence!<< Hi Tina, & Logan, Taking a correspondence course in this day and age is almost futile given the number of workshops of three - four day seminars available all over North America. However if one lives in a far away location certainly the correspondence will help. But the biggest failing of a correspondence course is .... no one to talk to and critique your pictures on an immediate face to face basis. And like you Tina, I took, well I started taking the NYI course about 25 years before you did . ;-) So I suppose about 50 years ago, but it lasted only a few chapters as I was so gung-ho I rarely ever waited for the critique information back in the mail and by the time I received the corrected paper work and photos I was shooting better than what I was being told to do. And that happened because I joined a camera club and had lots of one on one opportunities to learn human to human and that makes a high noon to dark of midnight difference in the rate one advances. So Logan have a look for a local camera club as it's a wonderful experience to learn photography and don't worry about feeling stupid as many in the camera club will be neophytes like yourself, so it becomes friends learning photography to-gether. And like you Tina I arrived home this evening from the shoot in Cabo on the "Colours of Mexico." Also an all day shoot yesterday with a woman pediatrician in the Phoenix Children's Hospital where it was beautifully air condition but when I finished and walked outside the temperature was 117 degrees f. :-). Environmental shock big time! :-) Now that was shock enough, but it was worse this evening when I got off the plane in Victoria to a balmy?.... 68 degrees ! A major 40 degree plus difference in temperature. I thought the Noctilux front element was frosting over ! .. ;-) Me ? I damn near died after two weeks in 100 degree plus weather shooting like a mad man working as long as I could go each day, 65 rolls of colour slide. 10 rolls B&W for the new medical book on "Women in Medicine." It's going to be a very long weekend editing colour slides and processing - printing the B&W. ;-) But dang I love it! :-) ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html