For the past six months, I've been taking an advanced photography classes at a local art school. The problem is that I'm not at an advanced level. I have some gaping holes in my knowledge. So, I'm taking classes at Lynda.com to plug those holes.
I was extremely impressed with the quality of classes on that website. Not a shabby power point slide in sight. Wish that universities were producing classes of this quality.
I also did some surfing through the creative blogs and ended up at the website for The Selby. Yes, I have a problem with anybody who calls himself "The" Anything, but once you move past that, his photographs and videos are quite amazing. He likes to document the homes and the lifestyles of artists and creative people. Because language and silence and communication are themes that run through this home, I loved this deaf artist who experiments with the physicality of sound.
I also loved the apartment of this gallery owner.
Apt. 11d 
Always a pleasure to find new creative links and photography links. Inspiring.
What skills are you hoping to learn? I may have some sources for you.
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I went back and watched this clip again the other day…it stays with me…a lot of what I see or read on the internet fades, but this clip stands out!
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Have you subscribed to the Lynda.com videos? I watched a couple of the free ones and agreed that they were good. I’m a fairly advanced photographer/photoshop user with a really short attention span for things I know and spotty holes that would benefit from being filled in. I would be interested in in watching just what I need to know.
I watched the “posing/working with a subject” and I love the example of how to show a nervous and inexperienced client how to pose for the camera. In general I don’t like videos, but this video showing the interaction between the photographer + subject couldn’t be reproduced in text.
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Yes, I subscribed. I started the exposure class, because I always get confused by the numbers, but I’m determined to understand them.
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Shannon – your blog is just gorgeous. love it.
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Worlds collide – Shannon at 8foot6 and Laura at 11D…
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Oh, look, and the video on “over-exposure” involves a donkey!
I don’t think the universities are interested in classes like this, though. Part of the issue might be the $250/year fee v being free. If the offering is free, the provider wants it to be a by-product of something else they’re already doing. Charging a fee means the power balance between provider/customer changes. These videos were made to explain something in the format they’re using at the website, not modified from what works in a lecture hall at Princeton. I think online information has a lot to offer, but in this form, specially designed for the online audience, exploiting video, how-tos, visuals, corrections, speed, . . . ., rather than allowing people to sit in on a lecture designed for someone else.
I love talking (well, actually, lecturing) about exposure, aperture, shutter speed, iso, DoF, and optics . . . . and actually understand them (that’s one of the reasons conventional classes don’t work for me).
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