Photographers operate still cameras to photograph people, events, scenes, materials, products and other subjects.
Skill level:
Skilled
Salary Checker
Job Definition
- Taking photographs for advertising, or other commercial, industrial or scientific purposes and to illustrate stories and articles in newspapers, magazines and other publications
- Taking portrait photographs of persons and groups of persons
- Studying requirements of a particular assignment and decide on type of camera, film, lighting and background accessories to be used
- Determining picture composition, making technical adjustments to equipment and photograph subject
- Operating scanners to transfer photographic images to computers
- Operating computers to manipulate photographic images
- Adapting existing photographic images to create new digitized images to be included in multimedia products
- Using airbrush, computer or other techniques to create the desired visual effect
