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The wife is looking to get some basic knowledge and learning about using the DSLR camera that i bought her.

The Local college has a 10 week course ( 2 hours per week) £95
From the brochure:
The course covers different areas that will allow you to enhance your photography. Colour, composition, lighting and photography techniques are covered along with hands on experience using computer editing software. Students are set a variety of assignments portraiture, landscape and photography. The assignments and tuition will enable you learn different camera setting and functions as well as enhancing your creative skills.

It also has a follow on course.

I have also seen day courses for a similar price?

What do you think offers the better value / learning experience?
 
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I did a 6 week course aimed at new comers to digital photography. The person teaching the course was obsessed with doing everything in full manual, even to the point of telling people to buy new cameras if theirs didn't have full manual!

But after the six weeks I knew more than I did at the start, and it was good to be in a group of like minded people.

I would recommend a course, but I've learnt alot from books/magazines/you tube as well.
 
aces_up1504 said:
The wife is looking to get some basic knowledge and learning about using the DSLR camera that i bought her.

The Local college has a 10 week course ( 2 hours per week) £95 per week

From the brochure:
The course covers different areas that will allow you to enhance your photography. Colour, composition, lighting and photography techniques are covered along with hands on experience using computer editing software. Students are set a variety of assignments portraiture, landscape and photography. The assignments and tuition will enable you learn different camera setting and functions as well as enhancing your creative skills.

It also has a follow on course.

I have also seen day courses for a similar price?

What do you think offers the better value / learning experience?
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20 hours tuition for less than £5 per hour seems like a bargain to me. She also has time to experiment with and reflect on what she has learnt in between sessions as she works on the assignments. I know which route I would choose.

Mike
 
Cheers for the replies.

Was just questioning if a day session in a smaller class could possibly offer more? The college course is the obvious choice
 
aces_up1504 said:
The wife is looking to get some basic knowledge and learning about using the DSLR camera that i bought her.

The Local college has a 10 week course ( 2 hours per week) £95
From the brochure:
The course covers different areas that will allow you to enhance your photography. Colour, composition, lighting and photography techniques are covered along with hands on experience using computer editing software. Students are set a variety of assignments portraiture, landscape and photography. The assignments and tuition will enable you learn different camera setting and functions as well as enhancing your creative skills.

It also has a follow on course.

I have also seen day courses for a similar price?

What do you think offers the better value / learning experience?
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Sounds like a bargain... but depends on the Tutor!!!

from experience, if you have a keen enthusiastic tutor, your wife will really enjoy the course and get lots from it. Howevever, if the tutor is an @rse, then save your money!

can you meet the tutor first or phone for a chat? make sure you ask about their experience (and whether it fits in with what your wife wants), whether there is a structure for the sessions, and how much practical work (i.e. taking photos) will be done in class time.

I've studied at evening class at my local college for the last 3 years - first year (YES, the WHOLE year, our cameras came out ONCE!!!!, and the tutor was there for his own need for an audience :( and there was no structure or formula to the class, very disappointing!)
second and third year we had a different tutor, much much better, learned loads and she actually cared about what we produced and made sure we all had a fair portion of her time for our individual projects.

Your wife may also find that she learns just as much from her fellow students as she does from the course.

For the price, it definitely sounds like a bargain (my 30 week course was £511 last year, plus 'outings' fees, plus exhibition fees - so about 600-650 in total)

hope this helps! :)
 
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