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Portrait Photography Certificate in Auckland

Portrait Photography Certificate - Flexible online course with DSLR camera kit included. Learn lighting, composition & business skills. Tutor support included.
Portrait Photography course

What you'll learn

The course is the same online course wherever you study from. Its modules:

  1. 1. Module 1 – Portrait Photography
See the full Portrait Photography Certificate course outline

Photography near Auckland

Places in and around Auckland where you can see this field in action.

  • Auckland Festival of Photography (opens in a new tab)

    A citywide photography festival held across Auckland's galleries, project spaces and public sites, with outdoor exhibitions and awards programmes. The 2026 festival ran from 29 May to 14 June.

    Visitors can see exhibitions by both emerging and established photographers, and the festival runs exhibitor, youth and music photography awards.

  • Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and the E H McCormick Research Library (opens in a new tab)

    The gallery is at the corner of Wellesley Street East and Kitchener Street in central Auckland. It also houses the E H McCormick Research Library and Archive.

    The gallery's exhibitions and research library are useful for studying how images are composed and how art is documented.

  • Cape Rodney-Okakari Point Marine Reserve (Goat Island) (opens in a new tab)

    This marine reserve near Leigh, about an hour and a half's drive north of Auckland, was established in 1975. DOC describes its fish as abundant and friendly, and all marine life in the reserve is protected.

    Snorkelling and diving here are good practice for underwater and nature photography.

What our students say

Digital Photography

I am studying Digital Photography and am enjoying the experience. I have learnt quite a lot and am only 1/3 of the way through. I would recommend learning online to anyone who wants to enhance their knowledge.

Jacqueline Bradford McDonald

Highly Recommend

It is one of the most fun and easiest courses, It has all the information you need, plus if you do it in order there is no doubt you can pass it.
I enjoy it so much and its a course that has helped me decide on what I want to aim for in the long run. The tutors are awesome and help you throughout and give great feedback on each module/lesson you do! Highly recommend it!

Brontie

Wildlife Veteran assistant

I’m learning a lot from my course, and my tutor is very helpful couldn’t be happier.

Tegan Spencer

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