Photographers

Photograph people, landscapes, merchandise, or other subjects. May use lighting equipment to enhance a subject's appearance. May use editing software to produce finished images and prints. Includes commercial and industrial photographers, scientific photographers, and photojournalists.

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

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Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

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Create artificial light, using flashes and reflectors.

Adjust apertures, shutter speeds, and camera focus according to a combination of factors, such as lighting, field depth, subject motion, film type, and film speed.

Determine desired images and picture composition, selecting and adjusting subjects, equipment, and lighting to achieve desired effects.

Transfer photographs to computers for editing, archiving, and electronic transmission.

Use traditional or digital cameras, along with a variety of equipment, such as tripods, filters, and flash attachments.

Manipulate and enhance scanned or digital images to create desired effects, using computers and specialized software.

Take pictures of individuals, families, and small groups, either in studio or on location.

Enhance, retouch, and resize photographs and negatives, using airbrushing and other techniques.

Estimate or measure light levels, distances, and numbers of exposures needed, using measuring devices and formulas.

Test equipment prior to use to ensure that it is in good working order.

Review sets of photographs to select the best work.

Perform general office duties, such as scheduling appointments, keeping books, and ordering supplies.

Set up, mount, or install photographic equipment and cameras.

Perform maintenance tasks necessary to keep equipment working properly.

Determine project goals, locations, and equipment needs by studying assignments and consulting with clients or advertising staff.

Direct activities of workers setting up photographic equipment.

Select and assemble equipment and required background properties, according to subjects, materials, and conditions.

Engage in research to develop new photographic procedures and materials.

Mount, frame, laminate, or lacquer finished photographs.

Send film to photofinishing laboratories for processing.

Develop visual aids and charts for use in lectures or to present evidence in court.

Photograph legal evidence at crime scenes, in hospitals, or in forensic laboratories.

Set up photographic exhibitions for the purpose of displaying and selling work.

Produce computer-readable, digital images from film, using flatbed scanners and photofinishing laboratories.

Employ a variety of specialized photographic materials and techniques, including infrared and ultraviolet films, macro photography, photogrammetry and sensitometry.

License the use of photographs through stock photo agencies.

Develop and print exposed film, using chemicals, touch-up tools, and developing and printing equipment.

Board reflectors

Bubble machines

Camera cleaning brushes

Camera flash attachments

Camera positioning tripods

Computer inkjet printers

Computer laser printers

Contact print frames

Darkroom thermometers

Darkroom timers

Digital pens

Digital photo printers

Digital still cameras

Dimmers

Dye sublimation printers

Electric print dryers

Film cameras

Film drying cabinets

Film scanners

Flash memory data storage devices

Flatbed scanners

Focus assists

Fog machines

Force film washers

Global positioning system GPS devices

Graduated neutral density GND filters

Graphics tablets

Haze filters

Image enlargers

Incident light meters

Label printers

Lamp reflectors

Laptop computers

Large format printers

Macro lenses

Magnifier loupes

Mobile adapters

Negative proofers

Neutral density ND filters

Optical media printers

Optical viewfinders

Personal computers

Polarizing lens filters

Rapid photo print washers

Reflected light meters

Ring flashes

Snoots

Softboxes

Sound blimps

Special effects projectors

Studio strobe flashes

Tablet computers

Telephoto lenses

White balancing lens filters

Wide angle lenses

Wireless flash triggers

Zoom lenses

Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Systems Adobe After Effects

Adobe Systems Adobe AfterEffects

Adobe Systems Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe Systems Adobe InDesign

Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Apple Final Cut Pro

Blinkbid

Cradoc fotoBiz

Email software

Facebook

Genbook

HindSight InView

Intuit QuickBooks

Light Blue Software Light Blue

Microsoft Access

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

ShootQ

ShootZilla

Simplifi pixifi

Simply Studio System

StudioCloud

StudioPlus Spectra

SuccessWare

Tave Studio Manager

Twitter

Web browser software

WordPress

Intern/shadow someone for a few days to learn about obtaining business and the amount of work outside of just photographing that is involved.

My favorite days are those documenting the work of non-profits.

Photographer

There are tons of photographers already, and it's hard to make a living...

Jensen Sutta

Photographer

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My work combines:

My work combines:

Non-Profit Organizations

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Jensen Sutta

Photographer

Milestones

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Non-Profit Organizations

Journalism

Being Creative

Day to Day

Advice for Getting Started

Recommended Education

My career is not related to what I studied. I'd recommend this path instead:

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Society in General:

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