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Is it just me, or have some of the photographers teaching workshops gone totally overboard on their prices?
I would dearly love to go to a workshop, but the cheapest I have found that appears to be worth going to is a thousand dollars!
How does that work? Is the photography market so bad that these folks make their money from workshops alone? I mean come on! It’s nothing nowadays to find workshops that cost two thousand dollars or more….some even higher! Plus the expense of travel and room and board! I find it really hard to believe that two or three days in a class of 20 or more would give me a decent return on that kind of investment.
Is this type of thing intended for the pro who makes a living doing photography? Maybe the price isn’t too high if you can take the cost of the workshop off your taxes…
I’ve commented before on the pro who wants to sell a fine art printing ‘how-to’ CD for eight hundred dollars! I’d have to sell a lot of fine art prints to make that worthwhile!
I dunno…maybe if I was famous as a photographer and thought I could make a living teaching what I knew I would feel the same way…..but I would hope not…and who decides who’s ‘really good’ and who isn’t?
Even if the photographer is great at taking photos he or she might be lousy at teaching! You can darn sure bet the testimonials they use aren’t going to be about how lousy the course was!
Whew! Thanks…I needed to get that off my mind…now back to the computer to look for a workshop I can afford!
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um...please tell me your kidding! i guess if you have tons of money and time, but that seems a little steep to me! i guess it would depend on who was giving this 'workshop!'
why why ? why take a workshop ? I don't understand that concept. So you can learn how to shoot like the person who is teaching it ? You're a great photographer. With your OWN style. Why pay even 2 cents for a workshop ? Save your money and spend it on a new camera toy. Workshops are given by people who claim they are wonderful. A great marketting ploy. I'll only charge 1500 dollars. That's a 500 dollar savings....lol.
hugs....bea
I'm not so much looking for a workshop Jack as I am a photographic salon, or seminar. I'd like it to be lead by an articulate thinker whose had experience studying color, technique and aesthetics on the one hand, and critical meaning on the other.
But while I'd like that sort of leader, I'd even more prefer that he or she knew how to encourage insights from a group of accomplished people like me who have life experiences, ideas, feelings, knowldege, and an interest in expressing all of that through visual artistry.
Now that's a place I'd pay to spend a week. With my camera and new friends with whom I'd stay in virtual touch continuing the multi-logue (as opposed to mono or dia...) indefinately.
Where do I find that? Huh? Huh? Huh?
I have not determined why a person would take a workshop myself as they all seem expensive to me. I also would wish to shoot what I want and not be directed to what to shoot. I think that learning cost either way if you pay for it in a class or if you learn the hard way like most of us do. The difference as a self guided person I am learning as I go what I need to know as I go. So I agree with every word.
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