Photographers

Job Responsibilities

• 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