Photography Courses
Would you like to learn to take pictures like a pro? New technology has made sophisticated photo equipment more affordable over the past decade, prompting new interest in photography careers. Home study photography courses can speed up the process of starting your career as a full-time photo professional. Instructors with experience in portraiture, advertising, and journalism guide students toward specialties that offer the most reliable job prospects.
Taking Photography Courses at Home
Today, students in distance education photography courses use the Web to interact with each other as well as with instructors. Other Web sites, like Flickr and DeviantArt, offer photography students the chance to share portfolio work with professionals who can offer advice and constructive criticism. By networking, developing a strong business sense, and absorbing the best practices taught in online photography courses, you can make a living looking through a lens.
What You'll Learn in a Photography Class
Distance learning courses first address photography fundamentals: the parts of the camera, choosing the right camera and lenses for each project, exposure, aperture, focusing, avoiding common picture-taking mistakes, and more. You'll move on to principles of lighting, properties of color, composition techniques, using filters, and darkroom skills, including developing film and making prints. You'll even study advanced techniques in digital photography.
Hands-on projects help make both the artistic and the technical sides of photography come alive, and familiarize you with your equipment and the skills needed to operate it. Home study training is convenient and flexible, making it easy and fun to learn photography.
Ashworth University
The Professional Photography Program
First, you'll learn photography fundamentals: the parts of the camera, choosing the right camera and lenses for each project, exposure, aperture, focusing, avoiding common picture-taking mistakes, and more. You'll move on to principles of lighting, properties of color, composition techniques, using filters, and darkroom skills, including developing film and making prints. We'll even teach you advanced techniques in digital photography. Hands-on projects help make both the artistic and the technical sides of photography come alive, and familiarize you with your equipment and the skills needed to operate it.
Key advantages of our school:
- No campus attendance, no commuting, no deadline pressure
- All exams are open-book/open notes
- Learn at your own pace; graduate in as little as six months after taking the online photography courses!
- Graduate with a nationally accredited diploma
- Enroll any time and enjoy affordable, interest-free tuition
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Penn Foster Career School
Photography Program
Penn Foster Career School offers over 80 affordable, self-paced, career-focused distance education programs, all designed to help you advance your career. Programs areas include business, education, technology, and more.
Stratford Career Diploma
Distance Learning Career Training Programs
Build a rewarding new career with distance education courses from Stratford Career Institute. An innovative leader in the field of distance learning, SCI has educated 700,000 students since 1991. We offer career training in more than 60 exciting subjects. Launch your career today with Stratford Career Institute.
