Anyone Want to Take a Class in Cell Phone Photography?
Anyone Want to Take a Class in Cell Phone Photography?
Posted 03/17/2011 at 6:51am
| by Paul Lilly
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As far as we know, you can't make a career out of taking pictures with your cell phone, but you can take a college course teaching you how not to take crappy photos with one. All you have to do is attend Immaculata University in Philadelphia where communications professor Sean Flannery has made it his goal to teach students how to take the best pictures possible with their mobile phones.
"I think it's part of our responsibility to teach kids how to use this tool," Flannery explains.
According to SilberStudios.tv, Flannery's new class doesn't just teach the technical aspects of taking photos with a cell phone, but the ethical responsibilities that go along with it. Cell phones are everywhere now, and Flannery wants his students to understand "the full gravity of what's at their fingertips and the power they can have."
Believe it or not, Flannery isn't breaking completely new ground here. According to the Huffington Post, New York University offers a cell phone video class, and we wouldn't be surprised if some smaller schools around the country do the same.
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Ghok
March 17, 2011 at 12:34pm
Maybe it's a basic photography course with the cell phone bit just a way to drum up interest. A cell phone camera is a crappy camera, but it's still a camera. You can still learn about composition and other basic things.
Clicking the link, you can see there's an "ethics" section of the course. There are a whole set of ethics when it comes to cellphone cameras.
ShyLinuxGuy
March 17, 2011 at 10:55am
How could you take the "best picture possible" with a cell phone? Any photog professor insisting that a cell phone camera is viable for photography-grade pics must have gotten his degree from a degree mill. By the time you would have paid for the class, you could have purchased a professional Canon or Nikon camera (and probably a photography book, too).
btw, Imacculata University sounds shady--probably isn't accredited. It worries me when I hear all these weird university names I've never heard of before all of the sudden. Then again, it could be old, prestiguous and well respected.
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