Start your Photography Career in Assam - How To

Lately, but Assamese youths are now started showing interest towards photography. When you are from a place like Assam, it is not very easy to get professional into photography career but no doubt that, Assam is one of the best place in the world to start your photography career.

As you know that there are lots of categories available in Photography to start with. At first, you need to decide the category you want to go with. No matter whatever the category you choose it won't be easier for you anyways. For your help, I have also added the list of photography categories -

1. General

• Journalism
• Street
• Still Life

2. Nature

• Wildlife
• Bird
• Scapes (Land, Sea, Sky)

3. Macro

• Nature (Floral, Insect)
• General (Object, Abstract)

4. Portrait

• Personal
• Wedding
• Family

5. Nude

6. Sports

7. Architecture


8. Astrophotography

These are the basic categories of Photography you can go with. If you seriously want to go with photography and want to be something in future, you need to be specific about the categories. Whatever the category you choose now, it will become your future.

Now it's time to head to the main topic, after choosing the category you need to know how to start the photography career. Ohh! don't forget that you will also need a perfect camera to click photos. A good camera, DSLR.

Choosing a camera is as much important as choosing the categories you want to go with. DSLR cameras are expensive, they are not like the ordinary digital cameras. They have the ultimate power to click the perfect picture of anything. Below I have added cameras for your startup.

Canon EOS 1200D

Canon EOS 700D

Nikon D5200

These are the recommended startup DSLRs for you for startup. You can also do some more research on choosing the perfect camera for you. It will be your best friend for your life, so choose wisely.

Yes, you will need some money to start your photography career, for a camera and + 5K INR extra. If you are thinking why you need to add 5K extra rupees to your budget, let me ask you a question. Where will you publish your photos after clicking them? Facebook? it sucks.
To publish your photos you will need your personal blog. Yes, I mean a website. Without your personal photography website, it will be harder for you to establish yourself. There are billions of people in this word, who think themselves as a photographer and publish photos on various social medias to attract other people. By that way, you will just earn likes and comments and share also (sometimes) but your life/ future won't run on likes and comments. You need to be professional. No matter how many times you say that, you don't care about the money you just love to travel and click photos, you will need money very badly.

So, things you care about before entering the photography career are - category, camera, and a website and you are ready to move.

Now the most important part is selecting a place to click photos. If you choose to go with indoor photography you will need a studio with good lighting and if you choose to go with wildlife, who can stop you. Assam is rich in wildlife, go to any national park or explore/ travel Assam and capture the best moments/ locations.

If you are looking forward to sharing your photographs or story, we can also help you. You can write your story for us here and we will contact you ASAP.

So the main things you need to care about to start your Photography career are -

• With what category, you want to go with
• Which camera you want as your best friend
• How to publish your photos

Instead of publishing your photos, if you want to sell them directly you can also do that. There are lots of freebie websites available online which will help you with selling your photos and they will take a small commission for that.

Another most important thing in photography is editing. If you know how to edit your photos you can increase the value of the picture by 4x. Yeah, that's true, and if you really want to edit your photos by yourself/ or learn it go for Adobe Photoshop.

These are the main points you need to care about before taking photography as your profession. These simple things will really help you with starting your photography career in Assam.