Good photography course?

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Hi,

My husband loves photography and his birthday is coming up and I'd love to enrol him in an evening/weekend course.

Anybody know of any good ones around north county dublin?

Cheers

Paulw

Best place to start looking -

http://www.instituteofphotography.ie/

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Excellent ! thanks so much for your quick response - it'll beat socks and jocks!

AnCatDubh

If its landscapes then Peter Cox runs popular workshops. These vary from short 1-2 days to longer workshops (up to 10 days) and shorter seminars.

I've attended one of the IOP's which Paul refers to above (a half day thingy) and if that is anything to go by then they are very well organised.

Both the individuals (Peter Cox and Dave McKane-IOP) who run these two courses/seminars are decent guys too - very helpful.

MarcusFenix

AnCatDubh wrote: »

If its landscapes then Peter Cox runs popular workshops. These vary from short 1-2 days to longer workshops (up to 10 days) and shorter seminars.

I've attended one of the IOP's which Paul refers to above (a half day thingy) and if that is anything to go by then they are very well organised.

Both the individuals (Peter Cox and Dave McKane-IOP) who run these two courses/seminars are decent guys too - very helpful.

Any of these courses provide you with a cert?

pearljamfan

id be interested too, i cant decide whether it would better to do some short courses and workshops or try and get the cash together to go part time in griffith college or somewhere and get some kind of accreditation..

Paulw

MarcusFenix wrote: »

Any of these courses provide you with a cert?

A cert for what? To say you did a course?

melekalikimaka

pearljamfan wrote: »

id be interested too, i cant decide whether it would better to do some short courses and workshops or try and get the cash together to go part time in griffith college or somewhere and get some kind of accreditation..

the griffith part time diploma is a mental amount of work

pearljamfan

melekalikimaka wrote: »

the griffith part time diploma is a mental amount of work

good to know! i dont mind hard work if its worth it tho. i need to look into it more anyway, hours arent great for me as i have a 3 yr old and no-one to mind him in the evenings!

magicbastarder

Paulw wrote: »

A cert for what? To say you did a course?

if someone else is paying for the course, they may insist on a cert to show you actually showed up.

i've seen this before while on computer training - people showing up on the first day to register, and you don't see them till the last day when they show up to pick up a cert.

MarcusFenix

No no for myself like, to show someone if you looked for a photography job or something.

melekalikimaka

MarcusFenix wrote: »

No no for myself like, to show someone if you looked for a photography job or something.

<pulls up seat>

magicbastarder

MarcusFenix wrote: »

No no for myself like, to show someone if you looked for a photography job or something.

you want to be impressing customers with a portfolio, not with certs.

MarcusFenix

Ok I understand that but I haven't got one, I'm only interested on starting out and trying to figure out my next course of action!

Maybe I shouldn't even be thinking about a course yet, I don't know, that's why I'm here!:p