City and Guilds Photography Course

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Hi,

Hope everyone is well!

I've been learning photography now for a good few months. Although reading books/articles/web pages has been extremely helpful, I tend to learn from someone teaching me.

Reading books has taught me loads but I'm fed up of guessing and want professional advice with the correct exposure etc.

My local college runs an evening City and Guilds photography course and wondered if anyone else has completed this course and how they felt it developed their skills and what skill level they left the course at.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Chris
 
I get a lot of people asking me to come and be an 'intern' for a while. I would say that about 50% have done just a C&G photography course

most of them just know the basics, some a little more. I guess it depends on who you get to teach.

just going through the motions or have a real love will make the end results poles apart.

maybe you should go talk to the tutor or sit in on a class to see if its for you.
 
I did the level one course at my local college a while back, it was extremely basic a bit of a waste of time for me tbh. My Dad did the level 2 course and thought much the same, although I did hear good things about the level 3 course. It depends on what level you are at to start with, if you have an SR and know how to use it on manual, level 1 will be waaaaay to basic for you.
 
I've just finished a level 2 course - learnt how to do photoshop more than improve my photography skills. Maybe spent 6 out of the 30 weeks learning about photography. Bit of a dissapointment to say the least.

Have a look at Mark Cleghorns site www.phototraining4u.com. You pay monthly but the video tutorials are short and easy to follow.

Good luck!
 
I have almost completed level two and have found it a great course but it all depends on how much you know. Even if you have little SLR knowledge I would skip level one, I did and did not feel left behind.

For the cost I would recomend doing it - at worst you will meet like minded people.

Good luck.
 
I want to tag along to this thread, as I'm looking at maybe doing a city and guilds level 2 at exeter college, its a four hundred and something pound course that I can do for 180 because I'm a student already

I wanna know whether its a waste of time or a good course, I know all the settings and how they affect images fairly well already and if it's going to be anything basic it's not worth my time and money (both of which are limited). What I don't know is some of the theory stuff that you guys who did A level photography have which would be interesting, though I can't do that around my engineering lectures.

When my exams are over I'm going to give the college a bell and talk to the lecturers and see what and how they teach, it would be nice to hear a professionals point of view as that is where I see myself in a few years
 
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