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Macheath !8b4g0BkNZg
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I have one precious spot in my schedule for a free elective and I'm thinking about taking photography, the course description is:

"Introduction to photography, exploration of related techniques using light-sensitive materials."

And something about black and white.

Are college photography classes a waste of time? I've never taken a photography class in my life, nor do I have much experience with film (P&S and I used an N80... once). At the very least, I guess it's an excuse to get a film camera (I doubt they'll let me use my DSLR).

If not, I'm planning on taking Latin.
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>> Anonymous
Do Latin.

If you don't shoot film now, and you're satisfied with digital, there's no reason to take a darkroom course. Everything else- and every darkroom stuff- you can teach yourself.

OTOH, knowing even a little Latin comes in handy in the weirdest intellectual places, and I don't know about you, but for me and most people I know, picking up a language is a hell of a lot easier with a class than self-learning.
>> Anonymous
All trolling aside, that guy has it right.

Take Latin.
>> Anonymous
My school lets people use DSLRs, or any camera as long as it had manual controls, but again, that meant DSLR anyways. You should check with your school about such details. Also,a film camera's a lot of fun anyways.
>> Anonymous
I've taken a lot of photography classes, learned nothing I didn't already self teach.

Latin.
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
bump for latin.
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>> Anonymous
atinLay

It sounds like you'd be required to use an SLR and film( assuming they even have you taking pictures at all, which might not be the case), and while you'd learn quite a bit from the formal environment, it might kill your interest in the subject. I took an introductory art class in the fall quarter and, while I got much better at basic drafting and stuff, I completely lost all interest in sketching. I still hate having to sketch anything because of the hours and hours of labs that they made us sit through( which ultimately made me better, but gave me a constant sense of it being work rather than a hobby or passion).

Get the course materials for a photography class and consider asking if you can audit the thing and not get credit. Most professors at many many colleges don't care. I've never heard of a community college teacher refusing you except if the class was already full and regular students couldn't sign up.
>> Anonymous
Thanks for the archive...
>> Anonymous
Take photojournalism instead. Use a DLSR. Film is dead. In photojournalsim you'll get to take pictures of people instead of trees and storm drains or whatever it is that you hippies do.
>> Anonymous
>>179704

Lmfao, oh anon. You crack me up.

Yeah, maybe a photojournalism class would be better.
>> Anonymous
>>179704

Taking pictures of people is lame. Take Latin.
>> angrylittleboy !wrJcGUHncE
between Latin and photography, i'd say Latin.
>> fence !!POey2hdozCZ
i took four semesters of latin. fuck latin, take a language that people actually speak.
>> sv !!vC9KZM3Ch/H
My school won't let me take a photography class without the 9 hours of prerequisites that are unrelated to photography. I go talk to the professors and say I'm a science major with photography interest and have experience with film, digital, photoshop, etc. and they just say, "GTFO."

Blah. :( Probably for the better. At least that's what I keep telling myself.
>> Macheath !8b4g0BkNZg
I took (surprise, surprise) Nipponese for two semesters to fulfill my language requirement here. I wanted to take Chinese, but the fact that my chink friends who took it had trouble with it turned me off.

I would like to learn Latin though, and it seems like a class that won't be too difficult.

Thanks /p/ for preventing me from making a mistake.
>> Anonymous
It depends on the structure of the class and the Prof.