Foundation Photography Course

Training/Coaching/Tuition by National Institute of Photography (NIP) Mumbai View Contact

Starting from: INR 9,000 Per Course (Taxes As Applicable) Request Info

A practical-oriented course, specially designed for the beginners who want to learn photography practically on week-ends. There is a great demand for Indian photographers in American Cruise Industry. Indian Recruiting Agencies such as Air Bourne and Indus are looking for young, enthusiastic, confident and hardworking boys and girls for the said job. A photographic qualification along with appreciation of top rate customer service is also required. We here at NIP train such people and prepare them for the photographic tests conducted by the Agencies.

Many of our students have already joined the Cruise Lines and are getting paid handsomely. Over 50% of the candidates being selected from all over the country are NIPIANS. We also guide them to prepare their own portfolios. So friends don’t you want to take this opportunity? Please come and join us with a great confidence. The course is designed to give more practical knowledge both indoors & outdoors to the students. Even if you don’t possess your own camera you can still learn professional photography as we provide professional cameras during the course. The course contents are more or less the same as our Basic Photography course with more practical sessions than theory and cover many indoor & outdoor practical sessions with studio lighting set up for portraiture.

Detailed Syllabus of Foundation Courses

• Anatomy of Digital Camera & its types

• DSLR

• Lens, shutter and diaphragm.

• Exposure settings, ISO settings on camera

• Lenses, their types and applications

• Shooting in daylight with manual and auto exposure settings.

• Focusing: Auto and Manual, Auto focus lock

• Depth of Field, factors affecting DOF

• Lighting

• Portraiture, Landscape, Macro Photography, applications of close-up lenses

• Use of different filters in photography

• Actions like freezing and panning, Covering sports events

• Studio lighting and modeling

• Flash photography

Duration: 1 Month (4 Week-ends)

National Institute of Photography (NIP)

National Institute of Photography (NIP, est. 1983) was founded by Late. Prof. Manohar Desai with a view of spreading the knowledge of photography among the youth, who aspire to make career in photography and others, who like to pursue it as a hobby too. NIP is a renowned, popular and trustworthy training institute in the country and has been conducting Certificate and Diploma courses for many years. NIP has trained thousands of students in photography and videography, in a systematic and methodical way, since its inception in 1983. Many of the students have pursued successful careers in photography either as a free-lancer or running their independent studios, or as a wedding & event photographer, etc.

NIP has students coming in from various parts of country as well as from abroad. NIP is an ISO 9001:2008 Certified Institute, the first photography institute in India to be ISO Certified. Our courses are defined in such a way that they lay basic foundation for various genres of photography viz. wild-life, bird photography, macro photography, nature, sports, and press and so on. They contain theory and practical sessions to provide in-depth knowledge of the subject.