part time diploma in Dublin

thebaz

Anyone know of any good part time Photography diploma courses in Dublin, i.e. 1 or 2 years in evening .
Special interest is Digital , and would see it as leading to working full time in photography whether commercial work or weddings, or anything to make a crust , doing what i love.
Or is qualification necessary ?
Cheers.

ChityWest

There are none that I know of - if anybody else knows of any fire away as I am sure a lot of people here would be interested.

If it is any use to you the gallery of photography do courses on different aspects of photography. So do the dublin camera club - every thursday night for 2 months - that sort of thing.

Not what your looking for but in the absence of anything else I thought it maybe useful info.

Fajitas!

There's a course that Jessops organize I think...It was in Amateur photographer last week. They send out all the stuff and you do the assignments. Can't really remember much though.

elven

I'd love to do a photoshop course too, and there just doesn't seem to be anything beyond "Hi, and welcome to Photography For Beginners! This is a camera. This is a lens. This is the button you press to take a picture..."

Does anyone know if any of the uni's/colleges to anything that isn't full time, daytime, that's a bit more in depth? Prolly be just as well to learn from books and tutorials off the web at this rate.

ChityWest

I know dun laoghire and ncad do daytime full courses on art/design which have an amount of photography - dont know of a single night time one though. I think Dublin Camera Club do 2 photoshop courses - one basic and one advanced - how advanced it is I have no idea.

thebaz

Dun Laoghaire college of art and design and Kevin St. DIT both do full time photography courses , i think they are both at least 3 years -- full time. Both lead to degrees , i believe , and have good reputations, but take time, as i say min 3 years full time. Not sure of any part time decent night courses , leading to recognised diploma, loads of introduction to photography night time courses, at your local secondary school, but no qualification given on these.

F-Stop

Griffith College Dublin do a Certificate in Photography (1 year full time/2 year part time). The certificate comprises of the City & Guilds 6922 and 6923 courses. I don't know anything about the cost or hours involved, but there is more information here.

pclancy

Nightcourses.com

Fajitas!

F-Stop wrote:

Griffith College Dublin do a Certificate in Photography (1 year full time/2 year part time). The certificate comprises of the City & Guilds 6922 and 6923 courses. I don't know anything about the cost or hours involved, but there is more information here.

City and Guilds requires lots of time and dedication, you'd really need to take the two years out to do it.

thebaz

Has the Griffith College certificate a good reputation, if it is so difficult i assume it has .
Is there in-class training , or is it all distance learning .
For photgraphy , distance leaning would not be very good, as photography is very much hands on -- rather than reading loads of documentation !

Fajitas!

Well the City & Guilds course has a good reputation nationwide. It's all in-class, then sent out to do the work, back to the darkrooms, lecture, crit, essays, coursework - based as far as I know. It is also quite basic for the first year, but all the work has to be done.

It wouldn't train you for either weddings or commercial photography, but you would have certification of you knowing how to take photos and make a business out of it. Depending on the commercial work, you might have to get an internship if you want to 'Be' a photographer, depending on the area you're thinking of (Fashion/product/sport are all different). Wedding photographers have to 1)be trained and 2)have a good portfolio of wedding photographs, or at least enough to impress. Or be very cheap.

thebaz

i cheked out website :-
http://www.gcd.ie/index.jsp?1nID=108&2nID=124&3nID=124&nID=221&aID=268
I would think of doing part time certification, which is 2 years , rather than full time 1 year .
The full time one says it would give you training to enter the commercial world .
The part time course does modules on People photography and close up , this should help if i want to work professionally whether as a shool or Wedding photographer etc.
Better than no qualification, which seams some wedding photographers will have , as long as they are cheap