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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Experience with NY institute of Phtography?
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 23:16:03 -0700
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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










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