Personally, I feel like that's a good way to be a camera teacher - after all, a photography teacher is not a peer evaluator like a person you'd find on an internet board. They're someone that you're relinquishing control of your own vision to so that you can learn something.(posted 8380 days ago)Josh doesn't make it sound like the teacher was particularly harsh - just objective. I think if I was going to have the audacity to try to get into an advanced class based on the merits of my portfolio, I would either be:
1) darn sure that my portfolio quality was the kind of work that the professor would be impressed with
or
2) expecting the photography teacher to quite honestly say it's not good enough to get into an advanced photography class.
Don't get me wrong - I don't agree with tough love teaching philosophy. However, I DO agree with tough standards for getting into upper level classes. Those two things are completely different and completely unrelated.
Doing what Josh did was a gutsy thing to do and it turned out to be a great learning experience.