After you have decided to take an online photography school (if not you would better read Online Photography Classes: Pros and Cons first), your next step will be to choose the right photography school for yourself.

My first tip here will be to start with free sources. Unless you need the classes for a degree you’d better not pay for what you can get for free. As I’ve already mentioned many times, if it’s technical things you misses, then you can read a great number of articles available on the Web. By the way, you can start from the BLOG you are reading now! Start with RECOMMENDED POSTS on the right. If you need experience and feedback, you are welcome to the wealth of photography forums (photography forum has developed a good community to help you).

I asked people around the Web and they give positive reviews of the following online photography school:

1. Morguefile.com, or Jodie Coston’s FREE Online Photography Course was named an excellent site. ‘It’s a free course, but there isn’t any feedback any more. The lessons, however, are still valuable.’ There are ten UNDERSTANDABLE and WELL-ILLUSTRATED lessons available on the site, which give in-depth information on the topic discussed.

The instructor of the course is Jodie Coston, a freelance photographer, who exhibited her works around the world and has won numerous international awards for her images.

2. New York Institute of online photography school is positively reviewed around the Web. It is a large photography school, which offers three types of courses: Professional Photography, Digital Photography: Photoshop for Photographers and NYI Short Course: Fundamentals of Digital Photography.

The courses are instructed by real-life photographers, in addiction you get their online magazine and featured tips, tons of audio and video taped lessons. ‘The lesson books are short, but cover a very wide range of subjects. The feedback you get from your photo submissions is probably the strongest asset of the course.’

On the whole it is a good course for self-disciplined and self-motivated people. The only disadvantages of the course named by its students were those of online education as a whole discussed in Online Photography Classes: Pros and Cons. Probably the only MINUS for digital photographers is that the regular NYIP course is based more on film photography.

The online photography school is made to take anywhere from 1 to 3 years depending on how fast you want to work through the program. The total cost of the course is around $1000, but you can pay monthly. Besides, if you ask for information, wait a couple of months, and they’ll send you a coupon for 3-400 bones off! Though, this information is not checked.

3. School of Photography offers SIX photography courses in two levels, to choose from: Basic Photography, Digital Course, Freelance Course, Glamour Course, Landscape Course and Black and White Course. The cost for level 1 is $325 and level 2 price is $190.

You learn rapidly by studying each photo lesson, following the examples within. Each photo course has graded photo projects for you to try out your new photography skills. Learn how to use your camera by reading, understanding and doing in this online photography school.