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Photography
Photography is a creative medium of expression, though today with the enormous growth in mass communication, it has become a profession with great commercial value. With a history of over hundred years behind it, photography has seen a lot of technological changes and evolved from the days of pinhole cameras to present day digital cameras.
Photographers
generally specialise in one specific area like fashion photography or wild
life photography. They have the option to either take up jobs with some
news agency, or advertising agency or work as free lancers.
Photography being a creative medium requires more of inherent talent for
success than tutored learning. A person endowed with good visual
imagination, a sense of observation, an eye for detailed composition along
with business sense can make a successful photographer. Professional
photographers specialise in their area of work. The different areas of
specialisation in photography include: Editorial Photographers, Portrait
Photographers, Feature Photographers, Fashion Photographers, Advertising
Photographers etc.
Educational
Qualification:
Photography
is basically a creative field and success in this field is dependent more
on the inherent qualities of creativity than formal training. Therefore
formal training as such is not a pre-requisite for entry into this field.
However training hones the inherent skills and helps to rise in this
increasingly competitive and specialized field. Moreover use of high tech
equipments in photography, has made training desirable.
Quite
a large number of institutes, including those recognized by the
government, offer certificate and diploma courses in photography. The
courses vary from six months to three years in duration depending upon the
institution. Design Courses
at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad have photography as a subject.
Indian Institute of Mass Communication and Jamia Millia Islamia University
at New Delhi are other well-known institutes offering courses in
photography. The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in
collaboration with the International College of Professional Photography,
Australia has introduced an international photography course. The course
started in July’2000 at NIFT centers in Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai. The
duration of the course is 6 months (3 days a week) and selection is
through personal interview.