Professional Photography: Managing Your Freelance Career
A course by Danny Bittencourt , Photographer and Writer
Joined February 2020
Learn the secrets to profiting from your work and transform your passion into your profession
- Best seller Portuguese with subtitles in English
- 98% positive reviews (333)
- 8663 students
Learn the secrets to profiting from your work and transform your passion into your profession
Becoming a professional photographer requires a set of skills that go beyond artistic education. Photographer Danny Bittencourt has overcome her fair share of challenges in areas like administration, marketing, finances, and even legal matters. She has used all this knowledge to build a successful international career as a photographer and shares it all with you in this course, so you too can build your own successful freelance career.
Learn how to find your niche based on your own unique style of photography. Danny teaches you how to manage your career, build a marketing strategy specific to your market, and develop a photo series that you can present to clients and share with the world.
In her first Domestika course, Danny shows you her tricks and techniques to create impactful self-portraits: Fine Art Self-Portrait Photography.
What will you learn in this online course?
14 lessons & 24 downloads
- 98% positive reviews (333)
- 8663 students
- 14 lessons (2h 41m)
- 24 additional resources (19 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Portuguese
- Portuguese, Spanish, English, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
Create a series of resources to present your work including a web page, a professional Instagram profile, a biography, a description of your work, and a catalog of your photographs ready to present to the art market.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
For photographers seeking to perfect their career management skills, improve their productivity, and monetize their work.
Requirements and materials
To take this course, you will need an ongoing project, preferably independent or freelance work in any type of photography.
Reviews
A course by Danny Bittencourt
Danny Bittencourt is a Brazilian visual poet who alternates between artistic production, education, and writing novels. She graduated in Photography, specializing in Visual Poetry, and has a Masters in Education with a major in Cultural Studies. Danny is devoted to sharing her research and experience, offering lectures, workshops, and courses, throughout Brazil, Argentina, and Portugal.
She is the author of the books Fotografia Fine Art by iPhoto Editora, Fotografía Híbrida, released independently, and A luz da janela, published by Chiado Books.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Presentation
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Influences
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What will we do in the course?
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U2
Self-management
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Autonomy
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Organization
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Marketing
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U3
Tools
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Professional presentation
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Disclosure
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Text
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Documents
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U4
Possible directions
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Plastic images
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Strong concepts
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Direct customer
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Alternative spaces
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FP
Final project
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Professional Photography: Managing Your Freelance Career
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What to expect from a Domestika course
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Learn at your own pace
Enjoy learning from home without a set schedule and with an easy-to-follow method. You set your own pace.
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Learn from the best professionals
Learn valuable methods and techniques explained by top experts in the creative sector.
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Meet expert teachers
Each expert teaches what they do best, with clear guidelines, true passion, and professional insight in every lesson.
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Certificates
PlusIf you're a Plus member, get a custom certificate signed by your teacher for every course. Share it on your portfolio, social media, or wherever you like.
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Get front-row seats
Videos of the highest quality, so you don't miss a single detail. With unlimited access, you can watch them as many times as you need to perfect your technique.
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Share knowledge and ideas
Ask questions, request feedback, or offer solutions. Share your learning experience with other students in the community who are as passionate about creativity as you are.
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Connect with a global creative community
The community is home to millions of people from around the world who are curious and passionate about exploring and expressing their creativity.
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Watch professionally produced courses
Domestika curates its teacher roster and produces every course in-house to ensure a high-quality online learning experience.
FAQs
Domestika's courses are online classes that provide you with the tools and skills you need to complete a specific project. Every step of the project combines video lessons with complementary instructional material, so you can learn by doing. Domestika's courses also allow you to share your own projects with the teacher and with other students, creating a dynamic course community.
All courses are 100% online, so once they're published, courses start and finish whenever you want. You set the pace of the class. You can go back to review what interests you most and skip what you already know, ask questions, answer questions, share your projects, and more.
The courses are divided into different units. Each one includes lessons, informational text, tasks, and practice exercises to help you carry out your project step by step, with additional complementary resources and downloads. You'll also have access to an exclusive forum where you can interact with the teacher and with other students, as well as share your work and your course project, creating a community around the course.
You can redeem the course you received by accessing the redeeming page and entering your gift code.
jandir_xd19
bueno
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albertonichofoto
Danny es una excalente formadora y fotógrafa. Aprendí mucho en este curso, lo recomiendo!
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gabrielapaulag
Danny é profissional, objetiva e clara! O curso é bem esclarecedor e me deu muitos insights. Também um olhar gentil pela minha jornada enquanto fotógrafa.
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re_quiem
Una guía didáctica y MUY útil para cualquier fotógrafo que esté dando sus primeros pasos dándose a conocer.
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lenalluzz
Ótima didática e as aulas são bem distribuídas em setores úteis.
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