What was your primary motivation for purchasing this course?
Pursue a hobby
“It is disappointing that the content is dominated by lengthy wordy pieces, including with guests, concerning high level thoughts and reflections about personal attributes and qualities that may help make a good photographer. Many technical aspects are covered but only as an overview of available functionality and with minimal content as how can be used to improve photographs in practice. I had assumed the whole package would be similar to the useful Extra Tips in section 31, but this is only 2 minutes long.”
Hi Neil,
Thanks for your review. We value every BBC Maestro customer, and really value your feedback.
All courses have detailed course notes to accompany them, which a lot of learners find really useful when watching a course, especially when completing the course exercises to gain more practical insights and a chance to try some new things out! I hope you've had a chance to give these a go for Rankin's course.
I hope this helps, but feel free to contact our amazing customer service team at support@bbcmaestro.com if you would like more support!
Best,
Rebecca
What was your primary motivation for purchasing this course?
Learn a new skill, Pursue a hobby
“This course is as open and honest and broad ranging as Rankin himself. What a wonderful course. Talking to those photographers was outstanding because they were all unique storytellers with a different insight into the world of photography. And the things they did with that photography too. And talking to the make up artist and the subjects. But the way he treats his assistants too... it's all about balance, fairness and trying to shine the light. Sorry to use that cliche slash pun. Would I become a professional photographer? I don't know. Will I keep trying to take photographs of people I love yes? Some are no longer here and I am glad I did. Rankin has given me confidence to believe in bringing light to a world that is glamourised but not humanised.”
What was your primary motivation for purchasing this course?
Learn a new skill
“A "photography course" should seek to teach you the fundamental technical skills about the profession. This is instead about the photographer and only the photographer - about namedropping celebrities he has worked with. There is no technical knowledge imparted. It isn't a course worth the name, and I have tried many courses on BBC Maestro. Unfortunately, this was the worst. I cannot recommend it and I think this is a deep shame as I had an interest to learn more about photography. But as the producer of the content seems more interested in himself and namedropping and not actually teaching skills worth having, this was a bad experience and I cannot recommend it.”
Hi Luke,
Thanks for your review. We value every BBC Maestro customer, and really value your feedback.
All courses have detailed course notes to accompany them, which a lot of learners find really useful when watching a course, especially to complete the course exercises and practice some of the learnings from the course. I hope you'll take a look at these and hopefully get some practice which might support you in getting more out of the course.
I hope this helps, but feel free to contact our amazing customer service team at support@bbcmaestro.com if you would like more support!
Best,
Rebecca
