It's In The Mail!

It came in the mail today! A package from NYIP! It is not my lessons, but the free stuff I got for signing up with them. It was a big, heavy box with five photography books. "Neil Leifer: Portraits" - a big hard cover coffee table book with all the famous people Neil Leifer photographed. "Ansel Adams and the Photographers of the American West" - another big hard cover 250 paged coffee table book. "On Assignment Photographs by Jay Maisel" - a smaller paperback book with photos from this photographer. I guess these three books will give me some inspiration.

The next two books look really useful. "2008 Photographer's Market" - where and how to sell your photographs. It lists 1,450 places that will buy your photos and is a thick paperback book. Cannot wait to start to read this book. And the last book is a small paperback called "The Photojournalist's Guide To Making Money". This is a smaller paperback book - 240 pages, but cannot wait to flip through it.

Where are my lessons? I want to start!
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I Got It!

I received some mail today from New York Institute of Photography - guess they cashed my check. They gave me the lowdown on the lessons and my first unit is in the mail - on it's way to me. It will include a DVD and CD plus assignments. There are a total of six units with about six lessons in each unit. I also have my very own instructor - Chris Corradino. He seems to have excellent photography credentials. He is available to me via phone, email, fax and mail. Chris will be critiquing my photos via audio CDs. I hope this is all as good as it seems because I want to brush up on my photography skills. I have been very actively practicing photography, but the last class I took was in college about 15 years ago. There are also a bunch of lessons on starting a photography business. But I am still going to Google Chris Corradino to see what he is all about.
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Why Not Make A Career Of Doing What You Love?

I did it last night - went to the Bayport Post Office and mailed my tuition to The New York Institute of Photography! Don't tell the hubby! I really researched it and as far as I can tell - it does not seem like a scam. It is a correspondence school and a lot of them I looked into are scams. But NYI has 30 lessons and each unit has photo projects. You mail your photo projects to your own personal advisor who critiques it on a CD that gets mailed to your house. It covers every aspects of photography.

From my research on this school online I could not find anyone who was unhappy with it. It covers all aspects of photography. One blogger's advisor was actually a lady who worked under Ansel Adams! Also it's the only school the magazine Popular Photography recommends. If you sign up to get their info wait a few months cause their first offer is not their best. They also send some bells and whistle stuff - like a NYI Press Pass that I sure will give me access to The President.

I will try to keep you updated with my progress with the school. I am doing it as a refresher for me because I really want to do something with photography and always have since I took my first photo with my Mom's camera with the 126 film and flash cube! I joined the photography club in the 6th grade, took classes and in high school and college and even worked at a photo studio. Here's their web site NYIP.Com
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