{"id":10976,"date":"2007-12-14T11:41:36","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T08:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/14\/photography-education-anyone\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T11:41:36","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T08:41:36","slug":"photography-education-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/14\/photography-education-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography education anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Via Digg<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 I came across this nicely written piece called “Photography Students Are Being Taught — But What Are They Really Learning Today?<\/a>“.\u00c2\u00a0 While I’m more of a lazy guy with a camera rather than anything of a photographer, I still can relate to what Mike Sheil writes:<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0So there am I looking at work which looked very similar to what I was doing 40 years ago and being told that this is now the real cutting edge of creative photography. It certainly had that rather off-centered, badly composed and poorly lit look that my work had 40 years ago — wide-angle shots of people’s heads, girls with sullen\/bored expressions, oddly focused shots and peculiar distressed colours. In all truth, I think my work owed its peculiarities to the fact I did not know what I was doing and anyhow had just started smoking pot, whereas the modern idiom seems to owe an awful lot to a desperate desire to be different — and hence ending up turning out the same mediocre rubbish as everyone else who is also trying to be different.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But what can we do about it?<\/p>\n

Amateurs like myself learn most of what they know from numerous tutorials on the web and from looking at a lot of pictures.\u00c2\u00a0 And I mean a lot of pictures. (Thank you, Flickr<\/a>.)\u00c2\u00a0 While this certainly helps, it doesn’t offer a base that formal education provides.\u00c2\u00a0 And if formal education is getting worse by the year, where is the hope?\u00c2\u00a0 Where can one go to learn the “real stuff”?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Via Digg\u00c2\u00a0 I came across this nicely written piece called “Photography Students Are Being Taught — But What Are They Really Learning Today?“.\u00c2\u00a0 While I’m more of a lazy guy with a camera rather than anything of a photographer, I still can relate to what Mike Sheil writes: \u00c2\u00a0So there am I looking at work … Continue reading Photography education anyone?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[864,1114],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photography","tag-art","tag-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7881,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/08\/picture-of-the-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":10976,"position":0},"title":"Picture of the day","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 8, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"As I am getting more and more interested in photography, I get more and more practice. 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