I realized at some point a few days ago that in order for me to do any kind of photography courses that are part of a program I would probably have to apply for said program and in most cases the application deadlines have passed - well at least for the programs I'm most interested in.
So now I'm not sure what to do.
Ryan has suggested that I just plain old go back to school and add another major to my Fine Arts degree. I hate this idea. I hate it because I know that I would spend forever learning about stuff that I may never use. I also hate it because I know he's right - if I look at many of my favourite photographers they went to school and studied art (surprisingly many of them were painters - I am not a painter. I have not painted anything since grade school and am not about to begin again.)
As I thought about this yesterday I started asking myself what my goals are when it comes to photography and whether or not it makes sense for me to go down this road. I know that I want to take courses - that I want to spend time learning about photography, learning to take better pictures... but I don't know that that's what I want to spend years doing (if I were to go back to University it would take many years as I would still have to work.)
And I think that's an important question.
In the meantime I will look at other options... I have tons to learn... and apparently a lot of time on my hands when I get home - a bad sign is that I've started playing on my Wii pretty regularly - oh no! I received a few photography (history) books for my birthday so I'm working through those along with my usual pop-science reading and attempts at studying Japanese. I wonder whether or not taking photography courses is necessary, whether I could learn more just on my own... (I could buy a lot of books for the price of a course!)
Also I've got another idea which I'm running with right now, more on this in a few weeks hopefully...
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Nothin wrong wit more edumacation!
I guess if it's not another major, what about a course a George Brown (or some similar place) for a few months? I really can't suggest more than that, I have no idea what they offer.
Yeah, I've looked into GBC - they have a certificate program as well as standalone courses... Their program doesn't require any kind of registration so I could potentially start as soon as I want...
I was actually looking at the Ryerson program somewhat seriously (and still am). I've heard that it's a decent program and I've seen some pictures from people who are currently doing courses there and they're pretty good. Ryerson does however have a deadline - which passed a while ago... I'd probably have to wait for September to roll around to start which kind of sucks.
I've also looked at Sheridan and Humber and a bunch of private schools... Sheridan would be okay if it weren't so far away.
We'll see...
Looks like I won't take anything until September...
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