If you are creative enough and passionate to make a career in the field of Photography, then you need to first pursue a course in Photography. Photography has become one of the most popular courses in India. Photography courses are offered at different levels including undergraduate, postgraduate, certificate and diploma level. With the invent of smartphone including me have fallen in love with clicking each and every sight that makes our heart beat a little bit faster. Thus, with the advent of technology, majority of the people these days pursue photography as a hobby. However, there are a select few who take their love for photography forward and think of making a career in the same. Photography as a profession is an extremely good choice. One can specialise to become a fashion photographer, landscape photographer, wildlife photographer, sports photographer, portrait photographer, event/wedding photography and the likes. And the opportunities available at hand are also plenty.
But in order to get acquainted with the nitty-gritties of photography as a professional field, one needs to receive formal education in this career profile.
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Photography Course: Highlights
Candidates can pursue Photography courses as per their interest. Here in the table below candidates can check the details of the Photography courses in the table below. Listed below are some of the major highlights of the course such as course structure, course level, examination type, average starting salary, top recruiters and top job profiles:
| Particulars |
Details |
| Name of degree |
BA in Visual Arts and Photography, MA Commercial Photography and Cinematography, Certificate in Photography, Diploma in Photography |
| Commonly known as |
BVA / MVA |
| Degree level |
Undergraduate/Postgraduate/Certificate/Diploma |
| Course Duration |
6 months/1 year/2 years/3 years |
| Entrance Exam |
XIC OET, IIMC Entrance exam, FTII JET |
| Top Colleges |
Amity School of Communications, National Institute of Photography , NIFT Delhi , Nagpur University |
| Annual course fee |
INR 2 to 5 lakh |
| Top Recruiters |
National Geographic, Discovery, Architectural Digest, UTV Motion Pictures, ESPN Sports, Star Sports |
| Specialisations |
Wildlife Photography, Nature Photography, Wedding Photography, Sports Photography, Journalism |
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Photography Courses
Here in the table we have listed some photography courses one can consider studying along with the topics taught in each of them.
| Course |
Subjects |
| Dual Diploma in Photography |
- Visual Studies & Art Appreciation
- Photography Techniques
- Basic Image Editing & Processing
- Image Printing, Presentation & Sharing Techniques CAMPAIGN + VIVA
- Studio Photography
- Advanced Photography Practice
- Self-Branding and Commercials of Photography
|
| Course in Still Photography |
- How photography works
- Lenses
- Film
- Framing and composition of still shot
- Television and Movie Cameras
- The television camera
- Television camera controls and adjustments
- The television camera mounts
- Basic optics
- The Lens
- The Zoom Lens
- Lens Filters
- Controlling exposure
- Focusing the shot
- Framing the shot
- Composing the shot
- Perspective and depth of field
- Camera movements
- Shooting for editing
- Camera care routines
- The digital television camera
- The movie camera
|
| Beginner’s Photography Course |
- Orientation – Know your Faculty and peers
- Discussion on Digital Camera
- Knowing Your Camera Possibilities
- Practical Shoot in the Campus – Usage of Aperture, Shutter Speed, Depth of Field
- Practical Shoot in the Campus – Metering and White balance
- Composition -Theory, Examples with Master’s Work
- Composition – Practical Shoot in Campus with faculty
- Basics of Natural Lighting – Theory, Understand light by studying the image in detail
- Basics of Natural Lighting – Practical Shoot in Campus with faculty
- Critical appreciation of Master’s body of work – 1
- Critical appreciation of Master’s body of work – 2
- Two Outdoor Shoot with Faculty – Street and Documentary Photography
- Selection of Outdoor Shoot images
- Developing curatorial capacity (The ability to pull out your best images from a shoot)
- Post Production – Photoshop class – 1
- Post Production – Photoshop class – 2
- Fill in Flash
- Portraiture in Available Light
- Master’s work on Portraiture and Faculty work
- Demo Portraiture shoot in campus
- Selection and Editing of Portrait Shoot in available light
- Portraiture with Single light source in Studio
- Selection and editing with Faculty
- Final Portfolio
|
| Online Beginners Photography Course (1 month) |
- Basics of Photography
- How to use Camera
- How to visualize a picture
- Introduction to lighting
|
| Online Foundation Photography Course (3 months) |
- Basics of Photography
- How to use Camera
- How to care for your camera
- Visual Literacy
- Practical Assignments
- Introduction to lighting
- Travel photography in natural lighting
- Equipment to carry
- Professional Portfolio
|
| Mobile Phone Photography Course |
- Basics of Mobile Photography
- How to use Mobile Camera
- Visualisation and Composition
- Introduction to various Mobile lighting
- Travel photography in natural lighting
|
| Advanced Photography Course |
- Evolution of photography
- Journey through the works and minds of the masters and experts
- The art of light and its applications
- The physics of light and its application
- Understanding natural light (shoot)
- Different forms of artificial light (shoot)
- Control of artificial lights
- The studio – an overview and use of various equipment
- Advanced use of the camera and accessories (shoot)
- Advanced experiments
- Digital workflow
|
| Fashion Photography |
- What is Fashion photography & understanding fashion
- Understanding the use of studio lights in fashion photography
- How effects of light creates glamour
- Creative studio lighting & glamour lighting
- Understand various fashion looks: ethnic look/ bridal look/ western look/ casual look/ corporate look/ sporty look/ sensuous look
- Understand make up with professional make up artists
- Practical model shoots covering fashion photography
- Practical shoots covering portraiture
|
| Commercial & Advertising Photography |
- Introduction to Advertising Photography
- Advertising Photographer: Roles & responsibilities
- Challenges for a advertising & commercial photographer
- Basic requirement & infrastructure
|
| BSc Visual Communication |
- Introduction to Visual Communication
- Graphic Design
- Drawing
- Communication Skills
- Printing and Publicatiion
- Basic Photography
- Computer Graphics
- Advertising
- Photography
- Television Production
- Elements of Film
- TV Production
- Multi Media
- Media, Culture and Society
- Media Organization
- Web Publishing
|
| BSc Photography and Audio Visual Production |
- Basic Photography and Appreciation of Media
- Introduction to Mass Communication and Media Scene in India
- Still Photography, Processing and Printing
- Acoustics
- Colour Photography
- Principles and Applications of Analog & Digital
|
| Photography for E-Commerce |
- Understanding the principles of e-commerce photographs
- Understanding studio lightening for e-commerce
- Understanding Characteristics of Light
- Understanding the basic lightening for studio
- Handling studio lights
- Handling light modifiers and light diffusers
- Basic Photoshop techniques for cleaning and enhancing the image
- Studio set up and basic tool required for e-commerce shoot
|
| Nature and Wildlife Photography |
- The art factor
- Using the right equipment
- Using available light effectively
- Composition
- Understandings of the subject & their habitat
- Understanding weather conditions & the kind of lighting it can provide
- Characters of light
- Characters of common locations
|
| Diploma in Professional Photography |
- Understanding your Camera
- Capturing Light – Studio & Outdoor
- History of Photography
- Image Processing & Enhancing
- Photographic Practices
- Applied Photography
- Digital Darkroom
- Business of Photography
- Portfolio Development
- Global Practices
|
| Diploma in Photojournalism |
- Introduction to photography
- Understanding photography as a profession
- Basic understanding of Documentary photography/photojournalism and commercial
- photography and their relationship to each other
- Photography Techniques
- Lighting & Composition
- Understanding digital photography
- Outdoor Photography / Nature and Landscape photography
- Understanding portraiture
- Photography as a fine art
- Understanding commercial photography and basics of artificial lighting
- Basic types of artificial lights and light modifiers
- Understanding flash photography
- Advanced Photoshop
- DSLR Videography and editing and sound editing
- Multimedia
- Panorama and time lapse
- Light painting
- Stereo Photography
- HDR
- Introduction to Photojournalism
- Ethics of photojournalism
- The Newsroom environment
- Role of a Photo Editor
- Photography gear as a photojournalist
- Video photojournalism and multimedia
- Understanding laws and copyrights
- Safety guides
- Portfolio development and Resume writing
- Understanding professional goals, business plans and marketing tools
- Understanding photography markets
|
| Diploma in Photography |
- History of B/W Photography
- Photographic Optics
- Types of camera lenses
- Photographic camera types
- Principal parts of Photographic cameras
- Enlarger: Different types, construction, working
- Exposure and its significance
- Colour Filters
- Photographic Light Sources
- Perspective and composition, rules of composition
- Photographic dark room, layout and equipments
- Photo sensitive materials
- Film (B/W) and Paper Processing
- Photo Printing
- Trick Photography
- Defects of negatives and prints
- Portrait Photography
- Still life, table top photography, methods and enlargements employed
- Photography in available light
- Close-up: Accessories and techniques
- Photomicrography
- Colour Photography
- Copying equipments, suitable camera and light arrangements, preparation of negative and
- duplicate transparencies
- Cinematography
- Sound Recording
- Video Photography
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