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I am looking at doing a course in photojournalism or just photography , i was looking at university but have decided agaisnt it as i am 27 and feel that full time education is not the best idea for me as i have been there and done that already when i was at college.

Does anyone know of any decent courses that i could do that are not full time? I wouldnt mind full time over a couple of months.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Any 'decent' course will be more than a couple of months...and will more than likely be full-time or spread over a couple of years...
Most local colleges offer basic photography packages, but it doesn't sound like that's what you're after...
The only 'real' photojournalism courses last a couple of years and cost a fair bit...competition to get on them is fairly fierce as well...
 
Arkady said:
Any 'decent' course will be more than a couple of months...and will more than likely be full-time or spread over a couple of years...
Most local colleges offer basic photography packages, but it doesn't sound like that's what you're after...
The only 'real' photojournalism courses last a couple of years and cost a fair bit...competition to get on them is fairly fierce as well...
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I would happily do one over a couple of years if it was part time , just not full time over such a long period.
 
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You want http://www.nctj.com/

I started out my photography life as a trainee press photographer and the newspaper put me through the training course which was over three years and included 2 block release courses of a month at a time at Sheffield

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Any pj course that will be worth doing will be full-time education - the "mickey mouse" evening class type ones won't give you an qualification and will purely be for entertainment value.

You don't say where you are based, but a quick Google should bring up a list of accredited courses in your locale :thumbs:
 
I looked into this a while ago and apparently the most highly regarded approach is the NCTJ course at Norton College, Sheffield. Tis a year full time. In the end I didn't apply as I have no money or spine :bang:

Also, the Mrs got me the Ken Kobre book for my birthday last year - tis very informative :thumbs:
 
tbm said:
I looked into this a while ago and apparently the most highly regarded approach is the NCTJ course at Norton College, Sheffield. Tis a year full time... :thumbs:
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We do a month of this Photojournalism Couse as part of our Seniors Course and believe me - we were run-ragged by the guys there - they take no prisoners...
The Senior Tutor is an ex-Fleet Street Pro togger and picture editor and treats you as he would a staff photographer - you will be expected to already be a proficient photographer before you get to this level, so expect no mercy if your images are badly composed, OOF etc...

Well worth the effort though...especially the 'Beasting' phase: tasks given with a series of dwindling deadlines - starting at one-hour and going down to 3-minute deadlines...
That's from getting the brief, to supplying the finished image, captioned, edited etc...
Harassed photographers trying to talk thier way into all manner of places to get the images...

I had to provide an image of a Blood-Analysis technician to accompany a 'story' about HIV - with 20 minutes remaining I had to talk my way past security into a Hospital lab, find someone willing to be photographed, get the images and get back to the other side of the city, then process, caption and submit...Talk about sweating!
In the month we were there I also racked up an impressive set of non-refundable taxi bills
 
Arkady said:
We do a month of this Photojournalism Couse as part of our Seniors Course and believe me - we were run-ragged by the guys there - they take no prisoners...
The Senior Tutor is an ex-Fleet Street Pro togger and picture editor and treats you as he would a staff photographer - you will be expected to already be a proficient photographer before you get to this level, so expect no mercy if your images are badly composed, OOF etc...

Well worth the effort though...especially the 'Beasting' phase: tasks given with a series of dwindling deadlines - starting at one-hour and going down to 3-minute deadlines...
That's from getting the brief, to supplying the finished image, captioned, edited etc...
Harassed photographers trying to talk thier way into all manner of places to get the images...

I had to provide an image of a Blood-Analysis technician to accompany a 'story' about HIV - with 20 minutes remaining I had to talk my way past security into a Hospital lab, find someone willing to be photographed, get the images and get back to the other side of the city, then process, caption and submit...Talk about sweating!
In the month we were there I also racked up an impressive set of non-refundable taxi bills
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Crikey, that does sound hectic.. they evidently know their stuff though.

Really like the idea of photojournalism but don't think a schedule like that would sit well with my appalling time management :shake:
 
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