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kunal chauhan

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Does lovely weather or delicious treats make your fingers itch to click a snap? Then like many others you are a budding photographer in the making. Most famous photographers start off by taking photographs at a family celebration or capturing the scenic beauty of a vacation. Thus, for most people in this field, photography first starts as a hobby which later on becomes a passion, so strong that one cannot think of joining any other profession irrespective of the pay scale/package they are being offered.
Earlier, one had to learn the nuances of photography on job or maybe by working as a helper with bigger photographers. However, now
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Sree Vignesh Sundaresan

Scholar-Level 17

Photography is a trending career for most of the people in recent days. It is not only taken as a hobby but also as a profession for most of the dedicated people. There are great opportunities for photographers. Government organisations recruit photographers on regular pay scale to do general photography documentation for covering day-to-day functions and events and for making photo captioning and photo featuring. Fashion photographers can find job placements in newspapers, fashion journals, designer firms and fashion houses. Some of the organizations like the Archeological Survey of India, ISRO, etc. Recruit such people for the docume
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Anish Choudhary

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First of all let me tell you that fashion photography is a specialization course for which you need to understand and learn photography. For which you should enroll yourself into a photography institution which has all the required equipment and the right faculty who can teach you and guide you on the right track. For fashion photography course, you should have the control over all the basic esthetics of Photography, framing, composition and more over the lighting because if your image is under exposed or over exposed than that is going to be a very big fault rather I should say error in photography. You should always be ready t
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Anish Choudhary

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Hi, just to tell you that in this modern world, the scope of photography has been emerging as the best of courses to choose from few. Choose it as a career and rest make this as their passion, but photography is essential. Being a sports photographer and doing a specialization course in it you open your doors towards the top. Sports photography can be used in online portals, channels, newspapers etc. Rest for beginning your career first you should understand what a camera is and what is photography? You must make yourself confident on using any of the cameras available in India. One must control his command over Shutter speed, ISO and
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Mansi MahajanHappiness is my strength.

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You can go with arts and opt photography as your stream.

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Sujata Dewan

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You don't really have to pursue any further studies if you have completed your Bachelors in photography. You can directly join a job or open your own studio. Create your portfolio and showcase the same that will help you get more projects. Along with this, in long run, you may surely pursue short-term courses in order to stay updated with the current trends and setups. That will not only prove you professional but will also give you an edge over others.

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Somanath SahooASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN JOURNALISM AND MASS COMM

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Of course, a certificate is valuable for professional photography. But, for a career you need to develop your photography skills. In India or abroad, you may be able to become a successful photographer after gaining experience under the supervision of reputed photography professionals. After completing the course and gaining experience in professional photography, you may become a fashion photographer, wildlife photographer and many other. Many ad agencies hire professional photographers. Many of the national and international magazines hire professional photographers for permanent basis. National Geography and Discovery channel may be
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Tanusree Banerjee

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To become a photojournalist, you have to have a graduation degree or Diploma on journalism or photojournalism particularly. There are other diploma courses as well for particularly for photography, one can apply for that also. But completing the course will not be enough. You also need to do couple of internships under a good photojournalist or in a news house as an intern photojournalist (you must have the certificate from that media house after the internship). You also need to do some portfolios on that. On the basis of your portfolios as a fresher you'll be given the job. After getting the job, the starting salary would be between
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pravin kumar

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Taking beautiful photos and capturing those memories isn't as hard as you think. It doesnt require expensive equipment, fancy studios, or high-tech editing software. All you need is dedication and some simple concepts to really improve your photography. You can get as deep as you want, but even mastering the basics will improve your photography by leaps and bounds.
Everyone I talk to loves taking photos. We live in a photo-obsessed culture. How many times in a day do you take pictures with your phone? And how many times do you think I wish my pictures were better?
If you've thought you always needed a big expensive camera, then trust me
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abhilash shishodia

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If you ask for my personal opinion of what is better for great pay packets of photographers among qualification and popularity, I would say None because the thing that works the most for their favor is their TALENT. But, if you talk generically, both qualification and popularity has their own values. On one side where qualification teaches you about the key and technical aspects of a camera and technicalities related to photography, being popular will help you in getting more clients and hence more money. So with a combination of talent, popularity and qualification, a student or a person can become a wealthy photographer if the skills
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