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As I said before, I recently started the full course in professional photography at the New York Institute of Photography (NYIP). I have been meaning to start the course for quite some time now, but at times I have been a little hesitant.
I have been involved with photography for quite some time. When I was in middle school I got access to my first nice slr camera (an old Olympus OM-G). It was a perfect camera to learn on. Manual focus, maunal film advance. It did have an auto mode, but it was aperture priority, which is mostly what I use even today. I took the picture in this post with that camera. It was one of my first experiences with both slide film and sports. It was shot with that camera and an 80-200 f/3.9 lens. Through the years, I was able to grow using that camera and eventually I used those skills at school. Through high school, I was the newspaper photo editor through 10th-12th grades and the yearbook photo editor in 12th grade. These experiences helped me learn and grow even more an get my first experiences with digital photography, especially in using Photoshop. Since then, I have been able to have more and more of my own equipment that I can use.
It was my previous experience that made me hesitant to start the course at the NYIP. It had been a sort of goal to start it ever since I got out of high school, but I kept putting it off. Haven't I been learning just fine on my own? I can already take great pictures and I already know many techniques to get better pictures. How much will I really learn? Finally, I decided that there is always more to learn in photography and some help from professionals that have been involved for decades can't be a bad thing. Further, it would help me with the business side of photography, which I am not good at at all. When I have had the few jobs I've had in the past, I have been completely lost as to what to charge, how to have a good contract, model releases, etc. and I knew that I wasn't doing a good job in that respect. I knew that if I ever did want to make a living with photography, I would at the very least need to improve in that aspect, and the full course in professional photography at the NYIP was a good way to do that.
I have not been sorry for doing it. I have completed going through the information for the first unit in the course. While I already knew technically the information, it did help me to think of the the information in a way that I never have before, which I can see has already made an improvement in me as a photographer. In addition, they included some information on the business side of photography, which was very informative and helpful. All of the information was easy to follow, and would be even for someone with absolutely no experience in photography. I am still working on the assignment that they gave me. I figured that I probably could dig through my library of pictures and find some that would work for all of them quite well, but I think that would go against the whole purpose of the course- that is to get out there and take better pictures! So as I work on the assignment I will be keeping that in mind and trying to find interesting new subjects to shoot in interesting new ways. I will share my pictures when they are finished.
I have been involved with photography for quite some time. When I was in middle school I got access to my first nice slr camera (an old Olympus OM-G). It was a perfect camera to learn on. Manual focus, maunal film advance. It did have an auto mode, but it was aperture priority, which is mostly what I use even today. I took the picture in this post with that camera. It was one of my first experiences with both slide film and sports. It was shot with that camera and an 80-200 f/3.9 lens. Through the years, I was able to grow using that camera and eventually I used those skills at school. Through high school, I was the newspaper photo editor through 10th-12th grades and the yearbook photo editor in 12th grade. These experiences helped me learn and grow even more an get my first experiences with digital photography, especially in using Photoshop. Since then, I have been able to have more and more of my own equipment that I can use.
It was my previous experience that made me hesitant to start the course at the NYIP. It had been a sort of goal to start it ever since I got out of high school, but I kept putting it off. Haven't I been learning just fine on my own? I can already take great pictures and I already know many techniques to get better pictures. How much will I really learn? Finally, I decided that there is always more to learn in photography and some help from professionals that have been involved for decades can't be a bad thing. Further, it would help me with the business side of photography, which I am not good at at all. When I have had the few jobs I've had in the past, I have been completely lost as to what to charge, how to have a good contract, model releases, etc. and I knew that I wasn't doing a good job in that respect. I knew that if I ever did want to make a living with photography, I would at the very least need to improve in that aspect, and the full course in professional photography at the NYIP was a good way to do that.
I have not been sorry for doing it. I have completed going through the information for the first unit in the course. While I already knew technically the information, it did help me to think of the the information in a way that I never have before, which I can see has already made an improvement in me as a photographer. In addition, they included some information on the business side of photography, which was very informative and helpful. All of the information was easy to follow, and would be even for someone with absolutely no experience in photography. I am still working on the assignment that they gave me. I figured that I probably could dig through my library of pictures and find some that would work for all of them quite well, but I think that would go against the whole purpose of the course- that is to get out there and take better pictures! So as I work on the assignment I will be keeping that in mind and trying to find interesting new subjects to shoot in interesting new ways. I will share my pictures when they are finished.
I found this tree on a drive through the country. It just seemed to have a certain something that begged for it to be shot.
Hi. My name is Jeff Murray and I am a photographer. I have been involved with photography since I was about 10 years old. My first camera was an Olympus OM-G that was previously my aunt's before she died. Since then, I have expanded to the Canon EOS system with an Elan 7e and my first digital slr- a Digital Rebel xt. Over the years I have been learning and growing as a photographer and have taken a few jobs for a modest sum of money. In the future, I would love to be able to make a modest living through photography. With this in mind, I recently started the full course in professional photography at the New York Institute of Photography (NYIP). This blog will showcase my pictures and my experience with the course as I progress through it.
