Finally!!!

RocketCowboy

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It only took me 2 years, 3 months to finish an 18 month program, but last week I submitted my final photography project to complete the Professional Photography Course from the New York Institute of Phototraphy (nyip.edu).

Much of the instruction was stuff I could also have watched on youtube, but I do/did appreciate that this class was all online, while maintaining the a relationship with an advisor for each of the six photo projects that had to be submitted after each lesson. I still have a ways to go before I'm "seeing" things as creatively as a lot of you guys here do, but I feel better about the technical understanding of how and when to do different things in order to control the image I capture.

Anyway ... just glad to see that link this morning to verify my graduation certificate, and wanted to share. :D
 

Marcel

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Congrats Charlie, at least you took the road to learn and have all the basics to go further. Learning is a road to improvement and you never know where it can lead you.

All the best!
 

Lawrence

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Congrats - I have been toying with doing that for some time. It is a highly recognised qualification from what I understand.
While it won't get you a coffee it is certainly a morale and confidence booster. Way better to know what you are striving for and that it can be attained even if you aren't quite there yet.
Beats floundering around in the dark.
 

hark

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Congratulations, Charlie! I enrolled in the course back in the late 1990's but never completed it. Their booklets are excellent. I learned more from them than from a number of photography books. Back then, photos had to be snail-mailed for submissions..that's how long ago it was for me! ;)
 
Yeah, I'm not retiring from my day job anytime soon, and I'm still $2.95 short before I can get a cup of coffee. But it's at least one goal marked completed off my list.

Sometimes things like this are done for the pure pleasure. I went back to school in my 50s to get a degree in programing just because I wanted to.
 

RocketCowboy

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Sometimes things like this are done for the pure pleasure. I went back to school in my 50s to get a degree in programing just because I wanted to.

Getting my degree is on my bucket list too. Not sure I would stay with the track I was taking, even though I got 3 out of 4 years done, but if I'm going to put the effort back into it it might as well be for what I really want ... right?
 
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