do you want to know how to become a professional photographer ? A professional photographer is someone who not only takes photos with his equipment, but it generates an income. This is the best definition so far

In order to deliver professional quality, the photographers require not only technical expertise, esthetical understanding and creativity, but the right level of photography equipment. Professional photographers do not provide the highest quality though, as there are plenty of amateurs with pro level equipment, doing photography only as a hobby and who deliver outstanding results that may sur class sometimes the professional photographers. Sometimes this is what happens and the professional photographer is measuring his time in money and does not spend the long hours just to produce one photograph.

As a professional photographer, delivering beautiful photos is not enough. You need to have the right business skills as well. Good photographers fail in their attempt to establish a business without the marketing and promotional understanding and knowledge

You can call yourself a true professional photographer, if you are able to sustain business by ongoing selling your work as your product and can confidently say photography is your profession

 We are going to provide you with all skills and training to help you achieve your goal and we will show you step by step how to become a professional photographer. But before you go ahead, take a moment and decide which photography category do you choose: photojournalism, fashion photography, landscape photography, baby and children, portrait photography, weddings or sports photography?

As a professional you need the knowledge and skills to suit your chosen category of photography

Do you need a degree to become a professional photographer? Absolutely not. You can become one by yourself acquiring all necessary skills to declare yourself a professional. A photography degree ma help but it is not necessary. You may learn the basics, go to course, spend a lot of time and money, but you won’t learn the business side of photography.

Having a degree may help you to get a job as a professional photographer assistant, intern but it will take you years untill you will be independent and runing your own photography business

We are proposing a different approach to become a professional photographer in your own time, by yourself, following our course. It will be a matter of time before you will know you are ready to start your own photography business.

Later yo will be free to choose to joing a professional photographers associatiation in your country if there is one and register.

As a photography beginner, you need first to purchase a camera and a lens to start learning how to use it. The next step is to observe and assist other professionals, and we will give you that opportunity as well as  part of our training program. Our photographers need help many times, and opportunity will come. Just subscribe and send us a message and we will try to help you to become a professional photographer yourself. Your success as a self thought photographer will be our success as well.

After learning how to master your equipment, you may think about building a portfolio to show your skills i the photograph category you are choosing to pursue. A photograph posrtfolio needs to be in 2 forms: printed portfolio and website. A photography website is the best way to reach the world as anyone can see your work. It is not only the best marketing tool, but there is no way without it.

Building up your photography portfolio will come by doing small assignments, jobs, and assisting other professional. This is the most difficult part of starting your business as these opportunities seem hard to get. However we will give you tips and tricks how to start to take photography jobs as we have been through this stage and know the insides of it.

It will take some time before you have a comfortable number of images that you can start showing around and promote yourself as a professional photographer. This will lead to the next step of your business and that is marketing and promotion.

Choosing the right strategy of advertising yourself as a professional photographer, can make a difference between failure and success. We will show you what works and what doesn’t. We have spent an long time and a lot of money testing various ways of promoting a photography business.

In our complete course on how to become a photographer you will find detailed information in all the necessary steps to turn your photography passion into a career.