Online Photography Courses – General Info
Many people have asked the question of professional photographers, “What is the most important aspect of running a photography business?” The answer is always the same; marketing. I have many times been given the ratio of 1:9. That is 1 part or 10% photography and 9 parts or 90% marketing. Unfortunately, it’s true.
I’ve come across people that are brilliant photographers and pay no attention to marketing. What do they achieve in the professional industry? Not much. I’ve also known people who are absolutely terrible photographers and excellent at marketing. What do they achieve? An excellent income and early retirement.
So the question is: “Can I learn what I need from online photography courses?” The answer is: of course you can. The only question to ask yourself is: “what do I need to know? The answers are: the business side of photography, camera and associated equipment skills and the required enthusiam.
Acquiring the skills of technical procedures in photography is easy. Any one can learn this. The difficult aspects to acquire in order, in my opinion are: creativity, marketing and then techniques.
Creativity, I believe can be learned. And there are many ways to acquire this. The most obvious is to work at it as hard as you can. Take thousands of photographs. You can afford to in this digital age. Look at other photos. Read books about photography. Join the local camera club. Look at your photographs and analyze why certain images work and others don’t. There are many resources on creativity, but in the end, it will be up to you to acquire this.
Then work on technique. Online Photography Courses blog can provide this information for you. We have selected the best courses on the market and you will find them here. You will notice there is not many courses listed. There’s a lot of junk out there, we are only interested in quality. I encourage people to leave feedback if you find other useful courses, so this can be passed on to others.
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Anyone know of any good online photography courses run in Australia?
Betta Photography (the magazine) run some, but not sure of the quality or accredited or not. Richard White runs some good courses, not sure if he runs online though.
Any one have any experience with Proud online courses? Are their courses as good as they claim? Thanks.
I did their course (Proud) having a special interest in studio portrait work. I focused on this area but found the course decent overall. A lot of info provided for a reasonable price.
Sony has a free basic photography course called Digital Photography 101. It is very basic. They also have many other courses, worth a look. This is their blurb on Digital Photography 101:
In this hands-on course for the basic digital photographer, learn how to make the right camera adjustments to get the photograph you want. You’ll learn how to evaluate and use existing light, choose focal length and aperture to get the perspective you want on your subject, select the correct depth of field, and adjust the level of image sharpness you want.
http://backstage101.learningcenter.sony.us/