Finding information

We can only teach photography to people who want to meet us half way. That means doing a lot of practice in your own time, and also looking at photographs and background reading and thinking. 
I like to recommend interesting websites, books and photographers if I know what you're interested in.
A subject like photography, with its continually changing technology, sometimes seems out of date as soon as you have learned it.
But the basic idea and techniques are the same: using light, colour, tone, focus, composition and design within a frame, timing, finding vantage points and access, and telling a story or showing facts using pictures.
We all have to try to keep up to speed with new techniques, and to do this we need reliable sources of information. 
Really what you're doing here at college is two things: 1 - learning about photography. 2 - learning how to learn about photography.
That isn't as daft as it sounds.


To do it, you need to be able to find good, trustworthy sources of fact and opinion. (There is a difference between facts and opinions.) Most of the links I recommend are useful and reliable, at least in my opinion...


http://www.shortcourses.com/sensors/


http://photo.net/



http://www.ephotozine.com/