From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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Photography education

Photography education

- This week on The Practicing Photographer, I'm here in the studio of RC Rivera, a San Francisco based photographer. RC, you've done a lot of stuff in the studio. You've done beauty photography, sports photography, all sorts of stuff. You are doing something that is very difficult to do these days, you're surviving as a commercial photographer. And in some future installments of The Practicing Photographer, I want to talk to you about how that works. But before we get there, I would kind of like to talk to you about how you got to here, about mostly your photography education, because I think a lot of people maybe are hobbyist or enthusiast photographers, and they think they've got a good skill set, but they don't know if they're good enough to make it as a commercial photographer. What's your background? Where'd you get started? - I am primarily self-taught actually, as a photographer. I took some classes when I was in New York, the ICP, but I'm primarily self-taught. I couldn't…

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