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Are you self taught or have formal photography training?


12 years 2 months ago #200092 by The Original Daisy
I was reading this morning where a blogger was suggesting that most photographers these days are self taught. I'm wondering with the growing availability of online photography courses if more and more people are coming into the photography industry with some sort of training?

I mean some of these course are pretty inexpensive and very well marketed in areas where photographers are spending time. See my point?
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12 years 2 months ago #200094 by crystal
I am self taught.
www.crystalwightman.com
My Facebook.. www.facebook.com/cwightmanphotography
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12 years 2 months ago #200103 by Scotty
Both.
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
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12 years 2 months ago #200104 by Baydream
Also mostly self-taught. My only formal class was in college - a one semester course using 8x10 cameras and a darkroom while getting a degree in graphic design (pre-computer days). Add to that 2 or 3 workshops. A lot of my "education" has been through clubs, critiques and on-line info like that available here and in the links provided here.
Shoot, learn and share. It will make you a better photographer.
fineartamerica.com/profiles/john-g-schickler.html?tab=artwork
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12 years 2 months ago #200130 by Darrell
Both....
You will not be judged as a photographer by the pictures you take, but by the pictures you show.
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12 years 2 months ago #200166 by Rob pix4u2
Originally taught by my Father and Uncle then self taught with a few workshops and community education classes thrown in.
Remember to engage brain before putting mouth in gear
Rob Huelsman Sr.
My Facebook www.facebook.com/ImaginACTIONPhotography
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12 years 2 months ago #200168 by effron
No formal training, both things I know, I learned myself.......:P
Why so serious?
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12 years 2 months ago #200175 by Joves
Kind of both. When I was 9 years old my grandfather gave me one of his old 120 film cameras and sent me on my way. He and my others in my family helped me with critiques and telling me what I did wrong and how to improve. They also taught me to keep notes of my shots and the settings, from there I learned on my own. I also read many books on it from Kodak mostly and many of the photo mags.
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12 years 2 months ago #200195 by icepics
Anybody can write a blog, doesn't mean they necessarily know that much about the subject, although there are good blogs and some not so much. I imagine a lot of photographers have always been self-taught, usually formal training would have been as part of an art or journalism program. So I don't know that it's a recent trend to be self-taught, but more that there's more available online.

I'm mostly self taught, more formal training was in art although that was in electives not toward a degree (that I have in education). I've done reading (books and online), took workshops, continuing ed. classes, etc. and am taking an online course currently.
Sharon
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12 years 2 months ago #200202 by scifitographer
Self taught.
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12 years 2 months ago #200220 by digishutterbug
Self taught with some evening classes thrown in. I have been lucky to enough to join good camera clubs and find friends willing to help. My self teaching has been mostly trial and error, with error winning.:P
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12 years 2 months ago #200237 by robbie
Been shooting alot before I took a 18 month course at a community college,I didn`t retain much
because of my Ir Addiction..came in contact with Ir there....breeze thru the course so I concentrate on Ir.With the advent of Digital learn alot on sites like this and thru mags and books.With Ir had to experiment alot to find my workflow which is pretty much set...crazy as it is!!!
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12 years 2 months ago #200242 by Dori
Self taught
Don't pi$$ me off, I am running out of room to store the bodies...

Resident Texasotan...
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12 years 2 months ago #200243 by andy2
self taught and still learning.
i aims i shoot i miss
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12 years 2 months ago #200250 by mj~shutterbugg
I started with formal training, and lean on that instinctually now, but since then it's been self taught. So I say both. I have grown a lot since joining this site.
Think Off-Center ~ George Carlin
www.mjbrennanphoto.com
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