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Professional Photography: Managing Your Freelance Career

A course by Danny Bittencourt , Photographer and Writer

Photographer and Writer. Cascais, Portugal.
Joined February 2020

Learn the secrets to profiting from your work and transform your passion into your profession

Best seller
97% positive reviews (346)
9,534 students
Audio: Portuguese
Portuguese · Spanish · English · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch

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.

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What will you learn in this online course?

14 lessons & 24 downloads

Autonomy
19 minutes, 41 seconds
Organization
12 minutes, 21 seconds
Marketing
12 minutes, 35 seconds
Professional presentation
16 minutes, 27 seconds
Documents
11 minutes, 27 seconds
Strong concepts
8 minutes, 41 seconds
  • 97% positive reviews (346)
  • 9,534 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

9,534 Students
346 Reviews
97% Positive ratings

Danny Bittencourt

A course by Danny Bittencourt

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Photographer and Writer

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

  • U1

    Introduction

    • Presentation
    • Influences
    • What will we do in the course?
  • U2

    Self-management

    • Autonomy
    • Organization
    • Marketing
  • U3

    Tools

    • Professional presentation
    • Disclosure
    • Text
    • Documents
  • U4

    Possible directions

    • Plastic images
    • Strong concepts
    • Direct customer
    • Alternative spaces
  • FP

    Final project

    • Professional Photography: Managing Your Freelance Career

What to expect from a Domestika course

  • 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.

  • Learn from the best professionals

    Learn valuable methods and techniques explained by top experts in the creative sector.

  • Meet expert teachers

    Each expert teaches what they do best, with clear guidelines, true passion, and professional insight in every lesson.

  • Certificates
    Plus

    If 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

If you're a Plus member, when you complete a course you've purchased, you'll instantly get your personalized certificate. You can see all your certificates in the Certificates section of your profile. You can download your certificates as PDFs and share the link online. Learn more about certificates.
Professional Photography: Managing Your Freelance Career. Photography, Video, Marketing, and Business course by Danny Bittencourt Best seller

Professional Photography: Managing Your Freelance Career

A course by Danny Bittencourt
Photographer and Writer. Cascais, Portugal.
Joined February 2020
  • 97% positive reviews (346)
  • 9,534 students