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I have just purchased my 1st camera today a 2nd hand Nikon D50 and hopefully it should be here in the next few days.
I have browsed the internet so much over the last few weeks and am trying to find out as much info as possible although I know its going to take a very long time.
I have looked into doing some begginers courses at night school and its £250 for a 9 week course or I have seen some one day begginer courses at Jessop training schools at £100, what would be best or would you not bother for a while and just play with the camera, im just scared of picking up bad habits hence looking into college.
Any feedback would be really helpul :thumbs:
 
Playing with camera, works for me - i play, i see results, i learn. Just how I take in infomation.
 
I was thinking the same, i have had my camera for a few months now and ok my shots seam to be improving but i really think it time i should take on night classes to really improve.

This forum is second to none for getting information and helpful tips but i think a one to one with someone with a lot of experience is whats needed to improve.
 
the only bad habit is not to use the cam
learn as you go...and start taking pictures
read about basic composition and let the cam do some of the work regarding exposure and focus..
if your results seem poor it will be easy to fix...they arent bad habits

i only thought of photography classes as being valid to learn printing and lighting

best of luck and be calm and patient
 
I did a 10 week Digital Photography introduction course at my local college. It helped me no end and got me off leaving the camera in auto. The good thing about it was the tasks we were set each week covering aperure,shutter speed composition etc. This was followed by a light hearted critique session on the pics taken for each task.
 
buy a book, or rent a few from the library and study an hour a day. if you was really organised you could create modules to learn over a week eg.

week 1, basic exposure
week 2, aperture
week 3 shutter

etc.
 
I did a 1 day 'Introduction to your Digital SLR' course with the Royal Photography Society in Bath - cost about £85 and worth every penny to me! I'd been playing for about a year with my camera, but not really undertanding how or why I was getting the shots I was - this provided me with enough basic information to understand it, and a thirst for more!

http://www.rps.org/workshops/view/1318

enjoy!
 
If you are going to get instruction. Out of the 2 ways you have mentioned i would go for night school. This way you can go in and learn a little, then practice over the week then go back and ask questions the following week. This way you be able to get your questions answered.

If you do a day course, you have to remember everything that was taught that day. Which will be near on impossible.
 
chris1981 said:
I have just purchased my 1st camera today a 2nd hand Nikon D50 and hopefully it should be here in the next few days.
I have browsed the internet so much over the last few weeks and am trying to find out as much info as possible although I know its going to take a very long time.
I have looked into doing some begginers courses at night school and its £250 for a 9 week course or I have seen some one day begginer courses at Jessop training schools at £100, what would be best or would you not bother for a while and just play with the camera, im just scared of picking up bad habits hence looking into college.
Any feedback would be really helpul :thumbs:
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although i have never been on the jessops course i have heared a few bad things about it the one i do remember was a thread on here and it was about something so simple the memeber of here told him what it meant / or do

one thing might be worth looking at is a local camera club they will normally help you from been a begginer and plenty of chances to improve virtually the same as college except you go when you want and its normally only around £60 -£80 ish just a thought
 
Ive just started night collage doing photography. Every wednesday for 3 hrs over 33 weeks. Ive picked up some tips and its a good way of meeting new people.
 
The great advantage of Digital is that mistakes are cheap, just go and take pictures, join a local camera Club and see how you get on.


Dave.
 
Personally I wouldn't dive into a course straight away. I'd try learn the camera first. I purchased a Nikon D60 about 4/5 months back. I had a quick read online about stuff, and then took photos. Came back, read more, then tried that. If you are going to do a course I would recommend trying out the camera for about 2 - 4 months, then take the course when you've learnt a little. At least then you know enough to hit the ground running and you'll probably pick things up even quicker.

Edit: Just read, and the one that starts after christmas sounds perfect. I must be psychic... :bonk:
 
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