Photography Class

I went to the first session of my "Beginning Photography" class today and it was pretty informative. Our instructor, Joseph Pettyjohn is on the goofy side, but seems to know his stuff. In any case, I now have a better idea of what all those options on my old Rebel are for. I'll need to shoot a roll of film by this weekend to play with different aperture and speed settings--I'll try color slides, since I've never used those before. Now I need to find a good book about photography that covers all this stuff.

The class is an interesting collection of mostly-non-students. The cameras range from 1960s SLRs to the newest Nikons and Canon EOSs. One geek mentioned that he had the Rebel 300D on order, but then he decided to take the Advanced Photography class instead. I'll need to track him down and quiz him about his experience.

The class is in the ETC building at UT. I had the hardest time finding the stupid place, even though I probably took some classes there before. There are so many new buildings on campus from after my time, and there is a serious scarcity of maps. And then there don't seem to be any signs on the buildings themselves that actually mention the acronym that the buildings go by. I made it on time, but there were quite a few late stragglers in the class.