Toronto Photography Meetup Group

I know of the Creative Photography Program at Humber College and the Digital Photography Certificate available at George Brown. Where else can one go to for photography school? Toronto-wise I guess?

For anyone who has gone to photography school, please feel free to add any input about your experience.

I was looking at George's Brown continuing education courses and some of the courses look rather interesting.

Thanks!

hi,

there is already a previous thread about schools in toronto for photography...as for opinions about the schools, i have been both in ryerson and george brown...the difference between the two is that the ryerson lets you more hands-on time with the lighting equipment compared to george brown...so in my opinion, you walk away with more when you are in ryerson.

that's my two cents,

ann

Some of the GB courses are interesting and fun while some are a waste of money and frustrating. The CP program at Humber and Ryerson are supposed to be decent. For more serious stuff, I'm told Sheridan College and OCAD; OCAD being more the artsy type.

I spoke to a instructor at OCAD & Sheridan and he basically said to me that if you want practical (product, fashion etc) photography stuff and make a business out of it then Sheridan is the better of the two. If you want to get really artsy, then OCAD it is.

Remember the two students who video taped skinning a cat alive and called it "art" well that's OCAD.

I believe there's a member here that graduated from the photography program at Seneca @ York. I think it's still a pretty young program though.

Sheridan College has a good applied photography program AFAIK.

Here's a sample of one student's work:
http://www-acad.sheridanc.on.ca/~goldch ... /1990.html

And more, lots more:
http://www-acad.sheridanc.on.ca/~goldchai/

I'm at OCAD right now, judging by what you say you were speaking to JJ. Totally agreed if you like to skin cats, this is the school for you. On a slightly more serious note, OCAD is a good place to think about what you take pictures of & why. Inspiration, concept and the like. To look at historical works & to really learn the language of photography. However if you want to learn how to understand the meter reading, expose, use lights, expose to the right, AA's zone system or anything else technical your better off at one of the colleges. OCAD tends to tell you to go read up on it, or 'fix it in post'.

Me i have learned to skin the internet for the technical stuff, so i don't mind that teachers don't really teach the basic operations side of things.

Well there is your insight into OCAD. I'm almost done here & it has definitely been a learning experience & then some...

The question is do you want to take your time earning a piece of paper, or do you want to learn specific topics in a day?

Other than the colleges, there are several private "schools" that teach specific topics in a day.