Giving Away a Fundamentals of Digital Photography Course

  • Michael Zhang · Jun 02, 2010
 

Update: This giveaway is now over. The winner was randomly selected and announced below.

Howdy y’all! We’re giving away a Fundamentals of Digital Photography short course by the New York Institute of Photography. This course is worth $398, and includes physical learning materials, a personal student advisor, online exams, and evaluation by a professional photographer that examines the photo project mailed in.

To enter, all you need to do is:

Tell us how you’ve been learning photography so far

There are two ways to enter, and doing both methods will give you 2 entries in the contest, and thus double the chance the win!

  1. Leave your response as a comment
  2. Tweet your response, and include the following link to this post anywhere in the tweet: http://j.mp/ppnyip

    As long as the link appears in the post, you’ll be automatically entered in the contest.

This contest will end Saturday, June 5th, 2010. We’ll randomly pick a winner using random.org and update this post. Good luck!

This giveaway is now over. We received 302 comment entries and 131 tweet entries for a total of 433 entries. The randomly selected winner using random.org is…

#5: Allie

I’ve been learning with the help of my partner (a pro tog!)

Congratulations! Please email editor@petapixel.com to claim your prize.

Thanks for participating everyone!

A big thanks to our sponsor, the New York Institute of Photography, for providing the prizes for this giveaway!

 

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  • Spinningbird

    I'm a self-taught photographer, I mainly do analog photography and am learning as go along.

  • Zak Nyberg

    Library books, photography.net, and Pentaxforums.com are my main sources.

  • Carleen Sweeney

    The only Photography class I took was in school,back in 1985.There was no digital training just the darkroom developing and Film Photography.Since than I been shooting pictures whenever I can.Trial n error and internet forums,blogs,Youtube,etc..

  • Elery Branch

    trial and error

  • http://twitter.com/cup0joy Joy Greene

    Just playing with a camera… well pretty much my whole life LOL ,pretending I know what I am doing and enjoying it ..but would love to learn more about the whole process..wish me luck !! http://j.mp/ppnyip

  • Angligran

    O please, please, please!

  • Bonnie

    Me too!!

  • Pete T.

    I've been learning photography with help from a friend. He works for a TV broadcaster as the station's 'official staff photographer'. So he gives impromptu classes to friends and colleagues.

  • Zhanxw

    I hope I am the lucky one.

  • JoeG

    Online of course!

  • Mills

    I have been learning by trial and error, and books.

  • Francois

    Nice giveaway !!
    I've been learning mostly by trying things on my camera and with online tutorial.

  • http://twitter.com/innomination Tyler Johnson

    I take lots and lots and lots of photos. I also started by picking the brain of my GF who actually attended a photography school for a little while and by reading a lot of theory online.

  • http://www.facebook.com/nancy.g.daugherty Nancy Gibson Daugherty

    I've learned mostly by trial & error. Every time I download my photos, and I take LOTS of them, I'm so thankful that they are digital and I don't have to pay for prints!

  • kim

    Shoot lots, share images, network with other photographers, read everything I can get my hands on . . . repeat.

  • http://twitter.com/erikchtan Erik Tan

    learn thru books, online photography forums, websites/blogs of photogs & just go out n shoot as much as possible!

  • MarilynBr

    What I have learned about photography, I've learned by studying pictures that I judge to be exceptional. I try to see what makes them good and do the same thing.

  • Kvol30

    I've learned tons about photography through the contests/lectures at my camera club, practice, and trial and error!

  • Police370

    I have been self taught. I stepped away from the point and shoot method and started looking at all the manual settings and what they could do for me. I would study what I considered a good photo looking at the settings they used to achieve the good photo. I might not have been able to get what I wanted at first, but I had an eye for what was good or bad. I also would study any on line information I could find. Then it was pratice, practice and practice, I would shoot the same photo numerous times with different settings and methods. I would look at the results to seewhat wrked best. police370

  • Lynda Ellery

    Because I love taking images that 'speak', i've just practised heaps. I have done some art training, have a reasonable detailed book and taken a few basic digital camera courses and I look forward to every opportunity to better hone my skills.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Sampaio-Lima/791793619 Daniel Sampaio Lima

    I've been teaching myself studying theory of the light through lenses(It's helping me a lot in many situations), features and limitations of my equipment, letting myself to get inspired for some artists by they style to try to find my own identity and practicing.

  • Eric G

    Learned the old ways with chemicals…. during my 3 years Design studies at the University, than photoshop 2,5 out without layers, then numeric life changed forever with the layers in Photoshop 3… Numeric images with SLRs is just great!

  • http://twitter.com/jshaddad Jamil Haddad

    Been learning by reading from the internet, shooting, asking for comments, and learning from others images.

  • karthikeyan Balasubramanian

    this is an awesome stuff ,..
    u people really rock off,..

  • Karthikeyan Balasubramanian

    the price of this stuff which u r “giving away” is 20000/- Rs,..

  • http://www.facebook.com/karthikeyan.balasubramanian Karthikeyan Balasubramanian

    awesome give away,..

  • http://www.facebook.com/karthikeyan.balasubramanian Karthikeyan Balasubramanian

    so far, i just had a chance of learning from internet,..
    this would ,.. would,…. take off to some where else

  • http://twitter.com/bkarthikeyan B.Karthikeyan

    RE: @petapixel use 2 download books & read blogs http://j.mp/ppnyip

  • Karthikeyan Balasubramanian

    use to learn from friends, blogs, PetaPixel recently, download books, & most importantly i dont have an SLR on my own. so far i hav been just learning through a Point & shoot camera & friends SLR camera http://disqus.com/forums/petapixel/giving_away_…

  • Laderomance

    For me the internet has been my greatest teacher. Reading tips from sites like this one, visiting photo storage sites, making contacts with other photography lovers, and sometimes just flat-out Googling a question are what helped me the most.

  • http://www.mfcarter.net Mfcarter2

    Ha! Yes, sounds like a great idea.

  • Mary Phillips

    Self taught via the my good friend google, some books, trial and error and http://digital-photography-school.com/

  • Phyllis

    It has taken me a while to learn all the bells and whistles on my camera, still there is always more to learn and experiment. What was an interest (family photos at holidays) has become a passion and the more I learn, the more I realize I need to know. I learn from rss feeds from excellent photographers, a few books on line and off, visiting photography shows and simply taking lots and lots of photos. Still it is frustrating not to capture exactly what I see in my minds eye as there is so much beauty in this world that I wish to share. People say I have an 'eye', lovely to hear, but the learning must continue. Like any art form, it is an evolving process.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/31378270@N07/ Mohammad

    i've been in the world of photography since 2006 -more than 3 years now-
    seeing photos,watching videos,following blogs and web sites ,discussing in forums

    it's such a great way to change your vision :)

  • http://twitter.com/moodydotcom moodydotcom

    My dad taught me a little bit when he bought me my first film SLR after I graduated from high school. I also had the opportunity to take a couple of photography classes here and there. Currently, I'm just a casual photographer and pick up things from friends, tips I find online as well as trial and error.

  • http://www.loganmiller.org Logan Miller

    I learn almost exclusively through the internet anymore. A few books here and there, but there is such a wealth of knowledge online, it's hard not to learn.

  • http://twitter.com/Oglerock Sara Oglestone

    I've been doing a little bit of everything trial and error, blogs/websites, books (bought and library) and talking to friends who are photographers. The one thing I haven't done yet is take a course.

  • puzzled

    I'm self taught except for a photoshop (3? 4?) course I took a long time ago as a technical editor. Would always like to learn more!

  • Juan Gallardo

    Practice and reading tutorials on the internet.

  • http://one-eye-media.com Whaleburger

    I like free stuff

  • Ecmcgowan

    Getting as much knowledge as I can grasp at any free moment. I work full time in RETAIL (retail slave) and hope to one day in the far future be able to support myself on my photography alone…but it's a learning process everyday. I learn something new from others everyday and from myself when I pick up my camera…it's a challenge that I truly adore….

  • http://twitter.com/vomviersen kathi

    Trial and error, and error, and error. I'm glad we're in the digital age. Film might have bankrupted me!

  • http://twitter.com/tomebug Peg

    I have been learning through books, classes with the local learning annex, and with a supportive and fun group of friends who love photography as much as I do and who are willing and happy to share their knowledge. I also belong to 5 different local Meetup.com groups, all photography related, where we get together to shoot, photowalk, hold classes, shoot some more, and share our work with each other.

    And I play with my camera. I try new things, I get some great shots and I get some lousy shots and I get better all the time. I love it!

  • Javier

    A NYIP course will be a great price. I have learned reading so many blogs and tutorials, but a structural course should be excelent

  • http://twitter.com/pidjay LeMouton

    How? Practicing by myself :] But also get advices from friends.

  • Tirza

    I've been teaching myself photography with books, studying other photographers work, and lots of old-fashioned trial and error.

  • http://joshuachan.tumblr.com Joshua

    Reviewing my own photos; reading/viewing photo websites like petapixel, LENS, big picture to gain more exposure; reading books on composition.

  • http://twitter.com/tarunactivity TTA

    Well , more reading and observing than shooting …

    Next week, my first official wedding shoot!

  • Lubaska

    Online photography courses are great! I would like to have such opportunity and win this prize.

  • Lubaska
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