Photography Classes

ARE FUCKING USELESS, unless your taking it to work at film and the procedures to developing a film & if your forced to because your planning to major or minor it in college. I guess a class to get to know how your camera works is alright, but you can always read the manual, that's why they put it in with the box. Why take a class from someone with a totally different view on things with his/her opinion on their shooting, processing style. Conflict of interest. You are practically learning from his or her experience and style, that is not originality, and knowing that photography is not just an art or skill, but both, you should experience your own and as an artist, develop your own view, ism, and style into your photography. In all honesty though, nothing is original, because all you do is combine the effort of everybody you ever know. Photo classes are a waste of money and time though, because in actuality, photography is really easy, it's just an expensive hobby, and as an artist, being human, you can only be selfish, not many photographers will tell you to go big once you get a camera, they tell you to go for something amature "so you can get used to it" that's some bullshit, because later on, you'll begin to love it and want a better setup. To put it all in simple words, after your done with the photo class, you can go back and tell yourself that it was all common sense and the class was such a waste of time, well that is if it hits you that you could have learned everything by yourself, but with the all time low education these days..

just my pair of cents

Edit: yea i know Sean, i never took a photo class.