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| A worrying turn for Photography |
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I really hope this isn't the way photography is going!
London College plans to offer iPhone Photography course
London's Kensington and Chelsea College is adding a class called “ iPhoneography,” teaching the next generation how to use their iPhone to take better photos.
The course will be a first of its kind, and will instruct students on using a range of apps to create images. The course tutor, Richard Gray, says he plans to teach the basic rules of composition, color and light, along with editing skills including blending, collage and cloning.
Still, the main focus of the course sounds a little more like a product tutorial that a traditional photography class. To that end Gray, himself a professional photographer, has a free workshop planned at a London Apple Store.
Traditionalists will no doubt be uncomfortable with this approach to photography, but could it just be the latest incarnation of the film vs. digital or darkroom vs. Photoshop argument?
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| Re: A worrying turn for Photography |
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It would be intersting to see how many people take up this course, not exactly the most valuable skill to have on it's own, but I suppose alongside other media courses it might be appropriate?
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| Re: A worrying turn for Photography |
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The Apple store in sydney actually held an iphonography workshop a week or 2 ago.
Considering also that the cameras on the newer phones are the equivalent if not better
than your low end Point and shoot, I'm not surprised.
When I don't have my DSLR I do use my iphone with pretty good results (not that it is ever going to replace my DSLR)
just saying :) |
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| Re: A worrying turn for Photography |
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Oh I totally get it from Apple point of view, it's a great customer activation ploy. But to run an actual course in a college to receive a qualification seems a bit odd to me!
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| Re: A worrying turn for Photography |
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Sadly it is a sign of the time, not in photography as much as education. Courses are offered for their popularity rather than their benefit to the general well being of the Arts or society in general. In short, it pays the bills. The Arts in education are not adequately funded at any level of education. A trend that has found its way to Australian shores.
(But this is a whole new argument and I should put the soapbox away!) |
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