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How good is a career in nature photography? |
Which are the Institutions for training in this field? What are the qualifications required? What is the average salary of a nature photogropher? salary? whats that? you will struggle to find a specialist nature fotog school, fotoace will post the schools i will add what i always add, look for a specialist photography course not a photoshop or Automatic shooting school. nature photography is freelance for 99% of them although some might have contracts with magazines a Source(s): horses I know that a lot of very good nature photographers offer workshops and training. Mostly the best way to learn is to just get outside a play with your camera. Try new things and see where your creative eye leads you. There are no qulifications and most nature photographers are self employed photographers and some carry a full time job to support their hobby. The best thing I can say is try to create a body of work that you are proud of and then go to local craft fairs and try to sell it or put it up for sale online. Get your name out there...that's the key for any artist. The first thing you need to learn is photography after that there are seminars that are taught by professionals in that field (George Lepp). But you can read the information below to give you a start at freelancing. Every magazine on a monthly basis needs to put pictures into their journal and there are the regulars that write the articles and most of the time (not always) use their photos. So to get yourself noticed by the editor you need to have technicaly perfect images, captions need to be correct and it also helps if you add the camera information (example Nikon D80, 17-35mm 2.8 lens, 1/60th etc). Now if you really want to make a sale you should write an article (MS Manuscript) of what you are submitting. Example: "How To Shoot Wildflowers", you could give the best times to go out and shoot, where to find them, the technical ways on how you shot these images etc etc. Doing the writting means the editor does not have to worry about doing anything but sending it to the press and you getting paid for it. But you need to do your home work. 1. You need to know about that magazine if you can buy it at the newstands do it, if not contact them for a copy. 2. See if there was a recent article about wildflowers, if the article is older than 5 years you stand a good chance of making a sale (this is because newer readers have not read the article and older readers need to be re-freshed) . 3. Make sure when contacting the editor you get the right person (new editor would not like this). You can find out about a magazine by looking at the "Masthead" either towards the front or back of the magazine. 4. A magazine has about a 4 month lead time so try and get your articles to them in time for "Christmas", "Summer Vacation" etc. A good source for a lot more information is the "2007 Photographers Market" handbook which you can find at Amazon.com. Hope this helps, Kevin Professional Photographer Yes, George Lepp is the man when it comes to wildlife and nature photography. He has a school just for that field of photography. As Antoni says, here are the top 4 photo schools in the US Art Center Brooks Cal Arts RIT George was a good friend of my ex-wife when we were all attending Brooks. http://www.leppphoto.com/ http://geolepp.com/ http://www.artcenter.edu http://www.brooks.edu http://www.calarts.edu http://www.rit.edu |
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