Advanced Freelance Photography

Further your career as a professional photographer.

As media hunger for visual images grows, an exciting career awaits photographers prepared to diversify and deepen their skills. Demand is on the rise for increasingly sophisticated, unique varieties of wedding, fashion, travel and commercial work.

The Cengage Education Advanced Freelance Photography course puts the experienced photographer’s talents to work in areas like portraiture and studio settings.

You’ll learn more about composition and design, new studio and darkroom techniques, film processing, image management and advanced digital photography.

The course is an ideal next step for experienced photographers looking to challenge their natural talents and advance their existing skills and career-level knowledge.

On completion of your course:

Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Cengage Education Advanced Freelance Photography Certificate and a FREE 12 month Media Pass.

Key areas of learning:

  • Setting up a professional darkroom
  • Film processing and image management
  • Digital photography advanced
  • Professional portraiture
  • Studio techniques
  • Composition and design
  • Marketing and job costing
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Course Number 93820
Course Type Correspondence
Course Duration Max 18 months
Study Hours Approx 180 hrs
Qualification Cengage Certificate

Prerequisites

Completion of the Freelance Photography course is required to take this course.

Assessment details

  • 4 written assessments

Extra learning materials included

  • The Digital Photographers Workbook - Textbook

Additional requirements

This course will require students to have a standard or manual camera.

Subjects You’ll Cover

Setting up a professional darkroom

  • Why have a dark room?
  • Setting up a dark room
  • Darkroom equipment
  • Tips and printing for exhibitions

Film processing and image management

  • Negative film, theory and practice
  • Transparency film, theory and practice
  • Colour labs: An in-depth look
  • Presentation of images

Digital photography advanced

  • Getting serious about digital photography
  • Software and hardware options
  • Digital manipulation
  • Online advantages

Professional portraiture

  • Portraiture and commercial photography
  • Studio portraiture
  • The mobile portrait studio
  • Tools of the trade

Studio techniques

  • Setting up a home studio
  • Starting with still life
  • Studio equipment
  • Nude photography

Composition and design

  • Fundamentals: rules made to be broken
  • Theme work to frame
  • Composition techniques
  • Colour versus black and white

Marketing and job costing

  • Different clients, different costing
  • Negotiating usage rights, copyright
  • Starting out with fees, professionalism
  • Costing for different markets