Has anyone heard of NYIP?

Question

New York Institute of Photography?? It's a school that provides an online photography course.

My friend is doing research and wants to know if it's any good?


TIA!

Answer 1

First, it's not an online course, it's a correspondence course and worth the price.
You'll start off with the basics in a pragmatic and immediately applicable manner and build from there until you have a really solid understanding of how to use your camera. There is little or no fluff in the course. You will cover portraiture in the studio and on location, photojournalism, advertising, fashion, glamour, pet photgraphy, photographing kids, travel, natural light, artificial light, existing light, macro photography and architectural photography. There is also information on starting in the field professionally.

In short, you will have a solid foundation to do whatever you want in photography. When I retired from my previous profession and decided to take up my first love of photography as a career, I had all the choices you could want. I could have gone to Brooks, AI, Academy of Art in San Francisco, or where ever. I already knew the basics and how to shoot a certain type of photography extremely well from years before, but I needed to have a firm grounding in a lot of areas in order to be a well rounded photographer. After looking at the course, I chose NYIP to pull it all together for myself. It was structured to do that most effectively and presented everything in an integrated manner without a lot of BS that would be good for grading, but wouldn't matter in making an image.

The feedback you get is first rate and their customer service and student support is also top notch.

Their professional course is geared to film, but that doesn't really matter. The basics of photography and how they interrelate to produce someone who is a photographer that can consistently produce good images on purpose is the same whether you are shooting digital or film. That's what you will learn how to do.

Digital changes the way you do things in post processing, not what you do. They have a digital course, also, that cover things from a digital perspective.

The key to getting the most from NYIP, or Brooks, or anywhere else, is what you put into it and what you bring to it. At it's heart, it's an exploration of the world. NYIP will provide all the tools you need to explore, it's your responsibility to be the explorer and you can start that process with them as you learn.

I have no problem recommending NYIP and there are a lot of very, very good photographers out there who came from NYIP. The question really is if you have the self-discipline to go the correspondence school route. If you don't, then don't.

Final, final on learning photography, whatever formal course of study you take in photography, when you are through, you will have a lot of rough edges that only experience will be able to smooth out. However, you will be able to say, legitimately, I am a photographer because I see the way a photographer does, I think the way a photographer does and I can do what a photographer does - create images.

Your friend's research should show that NYIP has a very good rep.

Vance

Answer 2

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