Certified Professional Photographer

Language: English

Short Description: This certified professional photographer course is designed to help you acquire the credentials and the necessary skillsets to pursue a career as a portrait, aerial, news, scientific,fine-arts, or commercial photographer.
As a student of this course, you’ll learn a number of different photography techniques and photography fundamentals that include:
• The science of optics
• Photo editing
• Technical skills involving digital photography
• Subject-dependent techniques
• Freelance professional entrepreneurship
Our goal is to ensure that our students learn as much as possible from this course. Therefore, we’ve included various audio and visual multimedia presentations to make the learning process even more engaging. We’ve taken that even further by including interactive elements as well.
For a complete learning experience, we also provide our students with access to a valuable tool, Adobe Photoshop, for an entire year.
Once you complete this photography course, you’ll be awarded a voucher for the Certified Professional Photographer certification by the Professional Photographers of America (PPA). With certification, you’ll be able to improve your opportunities for the future as well.
You don’t need to be an expert photographer to enroll yourself in this course. This course will help entry-level photographers take their skills to the next level!

Instructor Description: Though this program is a self-paced program it is supported by an educational mentor. Educational mentors are subject matter experts who have years of experience in their field as well as the necessary educational training and credentials to work as an expert. The mentor is available to answer any questions a learner may have including questions on course content, course material, certifications, and even industry questions. Mentors also monitor the progress of learners to ensure training retention and program advancement. In eLearning, motivation is a key tool to success. Because of this, mentors provide encouraging comments, feedback, and coaching to motivate learners throughout the duration of the program to support completion and success!

Certification: The Certified Professional Photographer (CPP) Certification from PPA assures potential employers and clients of a photographer's knowledge, experience and continuance to develop new skills and techniques. It is a declaration of your professional competence! Being a CPP is like quality assurance because certification is a credential consumers and businesses understand. More importantly, it provides you with a tool for telling the world—and all those potential clients—why they should call you rather than a competitor down the street.
Getting your CPP is a simple 3-step process.
• Declare your candidacy
• Pass the CPP exam
• Successfully complete the image submission
Each state may have additional licensing requirements, be sure to research your states requirements for employment by visiting your states occupation board.

Requirements
All required reference materials are provided with this program. Technical requirements:

Internet Connection
• Broadband or High-Speed (DSL, Cable, Wireless)
Hardware Requirements
• Processor - 2GHz Processor or Higher
• Memory - 1 GB RAM Minimum Recommended

Software Requirements
• Operating Systems - Windows 7, 8 or 10; Mac OS x 10 or higher
• Internet Browsers - Google Chrome is highly recommended
• Cookies MUST be enabled
• Pop-ups MUST be allowed (Pop-up Blocker disabled)