PEOPLE & PORTRAITS

I've been wanting to get into Photography for a long time now. Since purchasing my SLR camera I have been more interested in undertaking a camera course than ever. Looking at various courses I found a people and portrait class. Initially I wanted to join a beginners course to learn how to use the manual functions on my camera but that class had already began. So I figured the next best thing is to do a people and portrait class.



I've been more interested in landscape and taking photos of scenery over the years. Take me to a beach and I could spend half the day taking photos of it. So this should be interesting as the whole focus is taking portraits of people.



The course was scheduled to run from Leichhardt on a saturday morning. I was quite excited as I figured I could have saturday morning breakfast and coffee's in Leichhardt before the class began. Two days before the class started I got an SMS stating the class has been moved to Rozelle. I was so disappointed.



Jumping out of bed on saturday morning I rushed off to the course to be confronted by Jenny, our photography teacher. Within seconds I knew she was a freak. The class wasn't any better. It was one freak after another.



Finding myself a seat, I planted myself down waiting for the rest of the class. Within 10 minutes the class was jam packed with people. Community college really know how to make their money don't they?

The initial class was quite interesting. We spent the WHOLE class going around in a circle to introduce ourselves to the rest of the class. Now normally you do that in a group atmosphere within 5 minutes. For some reason you would say a sentence and then Jenny would stop you to ask a question and then spend another 25 minutes talking about crap. She would go around the world twice to come back to you about the sentence you just said.

By the end of class I was ready to throw myself out of the room. What the hell was that? The woman wasted an entire session on crap. I didn't want to know what the class is doing!

The rest of the course should be interesting......