First, figure out why you want to be one. If you are doing this for money or fame or glory or any reason other than you would do it free anyway, don't bother. The typical pro photographer makes around $25K per year, and it's a bigger battle to do even that all the time.
If you decide to do it anyway, decide what type of photography you would most like to do - research. I love weddings myself, but irregular and long hours, heavy competition, low pay, and various other things make many hate it. OTOH, I have no interest whatsoever in crawling around some backwoods trying desperately to get just the shot of the bearded titmouse...maybe you'd love that.
Then take business courses, because unless you are one of the very rare ones who can make a living working for someone else, your ability to run your BUSINESS will decide success or failure. Most colleges focus far too much on technical skills and far too little on surviving. Tech skills are often learned best on the job anyway.I would like to start being a photographer, any advice?
Before you invest in equipment, I would take a course. Then buy a decent, but not too expensive SLR camera and start from there. Don't go all out, make sure it's what you really want and you have what it takes. Start slow and ask people for feedback. Not just people you know, because they won't always tell you what you need to hear. Don't get discouraged, there is a lot of stuff to learn when it comes to photography, it's not just point and shoot. There is lighting, technique, subject, learning how to correctly use you camera, technical terms....etc....
More importantly, love what you do because it will keep you going. The day you do it just for money, and don't enjoy it.......stop.
Contact your local community college. All of them have courses on photography.
Go to a book store and look for books on photography. And study them.
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These are LONG subjects. They can't be explained in few paragraphs.
Good luck...
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