Community College 'Intro to Photography' Class?

[MNglass]

I was a Teaching Assistant for a photography course in college - at the time I shot for the yearbook (there were two of us) and did production work for the college daily. The teacher talked about composition, artistic expression, visual impact etc. We helped the students with the basic mechanics of shutter speed, aperture, (uh, ISO was "use tri-x"), exposure, developing and printing if they had any problems (not many did). It was actually a pretty good class because the instructor pushed them to think of photography as more than just taking snapshots.

As with most things, a poor instructor can make the subject seem like a chore to be disposed of as soon as possible, a good instructor can help you see things in novel ways, and a great instructor can inspire you to do things in novel ways.

 

[JeeperDon]

First day of class today and we have a two hour snow delay... in New Mexico! It's a 6 hr class one day a week, so we'll still have a 5 hr session.

 

[Clix Pix]

Does that class include lab time -- the darkroom -- or is it all lecture and later on once students start shooting, reviewing of everyone's images?

 

[JeeperDon]

Does that class include lab time -- the darkroom -- or is it all lecture and later on once students start shooting, reviewing of everyone's images?

Its mainly an art class, so subject and composition and such. It does include doing Adobe PS and LR work on our photos. We actually used cameras today, first day.

 

[Clix Pix]

That's cool, that the class actually uses their cameras in class! And then you work on PS and LR on the images in class, too? Very interesting!