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Photography Courses

A profession for people with a flair for creativity and an acute sense of aesthetic, that could be very demanding and at the same time very gratifying soup for the soul, photography is gaining popularity in leaps and bounds today.

It’s a great career option for passionate people and some of the most successful players of the game are working wonders with light, shade and color that has won them respect from all over the world. Photography as a profession has unfathomable depth as an aspirant can choose his niche from a wide range of colorful topics like fashion photography, photo journalism, forensic photography, advertisement agencies, wildlife photography and so on and so forth.

The list is far from exhaustive and realizing the potential of photography in creating employment opportunities, various institutions offer tailor made courses to mould the young and eager into budding professionals.

Future scopes of this profession are huge and not only restricted to India with ace international channels like Discovery and National Geographic there is a strong potential for photojournalists to make it big internationally. To sum up successful photographers can earn a lot in terms of both fame and money as jobs are galore.

Be it making portfolios for models or covering birthdays and weddings, or may be working for fashion houses, opportunities are always at a premium. Though apart from possessing a keen pair of sharp, observant eyes, no special formal qualification is needed, most institutes have set 10+2 completion as the minimum benchmark. Most commonly offered courses by institutes all over India are:

• Certificate course in photography
• Diploma in photography
• Degree course in Photography
• Diploma in motion picture photography
• Digital Photo Journalism
• Post Graduate Diploma in professional photography

Some of the Institutes successfully offering courses in photography all over India with reputation are cited below.

• Asian Academy of film & television, Noida
• BCL Institute of color photography & videography
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi
• Bhopal Bishyavidyalay, Bhopal
• Fergussen College, Pune
• International School of Photography
• National Institute of Design, Allahabad
• Srei Aurobindo Institute of Mass Communication
• Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
• Jiwaji University, Mahya Pradesh