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There are all types of students here at this school. I feel there is a pretty diverse crowd, though this conclusion is probably a result of my living in a log cabin with an arsenal of firearms that belonged to my uncle who taught me to hunt beavers and be suspicious of the government all my life. After all, isn’t that an accurate summation of Mormons, of which I am one? So, moving right along…

Back to the many types of students, well, there are. There are a few main types, however, that strike me the most. I will start in order of most common to least.

The Picture Taker. The Picture Taker is one who likes to do just that. They think, “Hey, I like to take pictures, so why not attend the most labor intensive and expensive photography school in the world? Makes sense to me.” Common to this group are the mediocre grades, the mediocre photos, the “first grade” problems in the “fifth grade” class. This group also commonly finds it hard to finish the courses. If they do finish some three years and one hundred thousand dollars later, they still have no idea what they want from their career. They have no idea where they want to work, what area of photography they want to excel in. They complain that Brooks didn’t give them what it promised, and they don’t see the value in attending the school. They thought Brooks would make them great. They were wrong.

The Fine Artist. The Fine Artist, unlike The Picture Taker, is wrought with all sorts of ideals and limits pertaining to what they will and won’t do with their photography.
  •You can’t make very much money.
  •You can’t be popular.
  •You can’t work for Corporate America.
  •You can’t shoot digital.
  •You’ll burn in hell if you use Photoshop.
  Abstract. Controversial. Ambiguous. Uncensored. They feel it their civic duty to pave a new path with their art, unfettered and uninfluenced by the clutches of the Corporate society which exploits whatever touches it. They soon find resentment for the school, the instructors, and the overall program for it’s focus on commercial photography, technical skill perfection, business, and money. They feel that they should have the right to come to the best technical photography school in the world and demand an education in art photography.
  The Fine Artist despises anyone who suggests that photography is a great way to obtain money so as to purchase the luxuries of life, such as food, clothing, and deodorant. They think charging one-hundred dollars for a picture that costs them two dollars to produce, (yet takes six hours in the darkroom), is simply an issue of price gouging. They don’t get it.

The “Less Clothes”, or “More Blood” group, hereafter known as The LCMB’s.

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