Learning about photography.

There are many ways to learn the art and skills of photography.

The most common ,the most expensive and what often takes the longest time is to try and teach yourself.

The wide and diverse range of skills that are available to a working commercial photographer may be learnt by trial and error and some satisfactory results may be achieved by repetitive failures however being educated by a qualified and experienced teacher will save you money and time.

Around Australia there are several reputable and well know educational establishments . These employ qualified teachers and have the resources to show, demonstrate and allow hands on experiences for there students.

Firstly you need to determine your field of photographic interest. The range of photographic skills is enormous and covers several hundred years of developmen. Through techniques and skills learnt in black and white film processing and printing to contemporary photo blogging and image creation.

Whether its colour or black & white, analogue or digital, still or video the skills required to produce the best results cannot be learnt quickly.

EDUCATION (you can also enrol in one of these reputable education establishments)

• Deakin University
• Photo studies college (PSC)
• Rmit
• Melbourne Polytechnic

ONLINE EDUCATION RESOURCES

• Cambridge in colour
• Starting out & Pinhole photography
• Developing you own B&W film
• Processing B&W film (youtube)
• Making your first B&W darkroom print (youtube)
• Developing Black and White Film at Home

FILM DEV TIME AND CHEMICAL CHART

• Digital truth dev chart

ONLINE TUTORIALS

• Smashing magazine

PHOTO FORUM

• Photrio

DIGITAL CENSOR COMPARISONS

• Dxomark

Here are some PRODUCT SHORT CUT LINKS FOR CHEMICAL & DARKROOM kits

B&W film porocessing for the beginners

• Paterson PTP574 FIlm processing starter kit
• Ilford Simplicity film starter kit