Another NYIP blog

If you're looking for news from actual NYIP students, check out the Nan Schefcick Photography blog.  Currently Nan is enrolled in the NYP Photography Course and has shared comments from her student advisor for the first three unit assignments.

[Update 2/23/2012 - There have been no posts since Unit 3, I think in April 2011.]

Tut Tut Tut

If you're looking for some free photography lessons visit photo.tuts+.  They have video tutorials and articles on all aspects of photography - from hardware to capturing the image to post production.  There is a special section for beginners called basix.

photo tuts+ is part of the Plus education network.  Another one of their sites you might want to check out is psd tuts+ for Photoshop users.  The special effects tutorials look especially interesting.

After Effects (Adobe's software for "creating sophisticated motion graphics and cinematic visual effects") is covered at ae tuts+.  You could learn how to make people walk through walls.

Free workshop: Anatomy of a Photoshoot with Mark Wallace

What: 3 day workshop on commercial photography
Instructor: Mark Wallace, http://www.snapfactory.com/
When: August 26 - 28, 2011
Where: CreativeLive, http://www.creativelive.com/courses/anatomy-photoshoot-mark-wallace
Venue:  Live, on-line
Cost: Free (if you can't make it to the workshop, you can buy a CD)