Job Description
Summary Photograph people using digital or film cameras and equipment. May develop negatives or use computer software to produce finished images and prints.
Duties - Take pictures of individuals, families, and small groups, either in studio or on location.
- Adjust apertures, shutter speeds, and camera focus based on a combination of factors such as lighting, field depth, subject motion, film type, and film speed.
- Use traditional or digital cameras, along with a variety of equipment such as tripods, filters, and flash attachments.
- Create artificial light, using flashes and reflectors.
- Determine desired images and picture composition, selecting and adjusting subjects, equipment, and lighting to achieve desired effects.
- Test equipment prior to use to ensure that it is in good working order.
- Review sets of photographs to select the best work.
- Estimate or measure light levels, distances, and numbers of exposures needed, using measuring devices and formulas.
- Manipulate and enhance scanned or digital images to create desired effects, using computers and specialized software.
- Perform maintenance tasks necessary to keep equipment working properly.
- Perform general office duties such as scheduling appointments, keeping books, and ordering supplies.
- Determine project goals, locations, and equipment needs by studying assignments and consulting with clients or advertising staff.
- Select and assemble equipment and required background properties, according to subjects, materials, and conditions.
- Enhance, retouch, and resize photographs and negatives, using airbrushing and other techniques.
- Set up, mount, or install photographic equipment and cameras.
- Produce computer-readable, digital images from film, using flatbed scanners and photofinishing laboratories.
- Direct activities of workers who are setting up photographic equipment.
- Employ a variety of specialized photographic materials and techniques, including infrared and ultraviolet films, macro photography, photogrammetry and sensitometry.
- Engage in research to develop new photographic procedures and materials.
- Set up photographic exhibitions for the purpose of displaying and selling work.
- Load and unload film.
- Develop visual aids and charts for use in lectures or to present evidence in court.
- License the use of photographs through stock photo agencies.
- Mount, frame, laminate, or lacquer finished photographs.
- Photograph legal evidence at crime scenes, in hospitals, or in forensic laboratories.
- Transfer photographs to computers for editing, archiving, and electronic transmission.
- Develop and print exposed film, using chemicals, touchup tools, and developing and printing equipment.
- Write photograph captions.
- Send film to photofinishing laboratories for processing.
Requirements - Convert data among multiple digital or analog formats.
- Write informational material.
- Operate still or video cameras or related equipment.
- Set up still or video cameras or related equipment.
- Operate still or video cameras or related equipment.
- Set up still or video cameras or related equipment.
- Determine technical requirements of productions or projects.
- Set up still or video cameras or related equipment.
- Review art or design materials.
- Determine technical requirements of productions or projects.
- Create computer-generated graphics or animation.
- Maintain recording or broadcasting equipment.
- Maintain records, documents, or other files.
- Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.
- Confer with clients to determine needs.
- Select materials or props.
- Set up still or video cameras or related equipment.
- Apply finishes to artwork, crafts, or displays.
- Set up still or video cameras or related equipment.
- Convert data among multiple digital or analog formats.
- Coordinate activities of production personnel.
- Set up still or video cameras or related equipment.
- Research new technologies.
- Arrange artwork, products, or props.
- Set up still or video cameras or related equipment.
- Select materials or props.
- Obtain copyrights or other legal permissions.
- Construct distinctive physical objects for artistic, functional, or commercial purposes.
- Operate still or video cameras or related equipment.
Nice To Haves - Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Systems Adobe AfterEffects
- Adobe Systems Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- Apple Final Cut Pro
- Facebook
- Intuit QuickBooks
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Adobe Systems Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Systems Adobe Creative Suite
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
- Blinkbid
- Board reflectors
- Bubble machines
- Camera cleaning brushes
- Camera flash attachments
- Camera positioning tripods
- Computer inkjet printers
- Computer laser printers
- Contact print frames
- Cradoc fotoBiz
- Darkroom thermometers
- Darkroom timers
- Digital pens
- Digital photo printers
- Digital still cameras
- Dimmers
- Dye sublimation printers
- Electric print dryers
- Email software
- Film cameras
- Film drying cabinets
- Film scanners
- Flash memory data storage devices
- Flatbed scanners
- Focus assists
- Fog machines
- Force film washers
- Genbook
- Global positioning system GPS devices
- Graduated neutral density GND filters
- Graphics tablets
- Haze filters
- HindSight InView
- Image enlargers
- Incident light meters
- Label printers
- Lamp reflectors
- Laptop computers
- Large format printers
- Light Blue Software Light Blue
- Macro lenses
- Magnifier loupes
- Microsoft Word
- 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
- ShootQ
- ShootZilla
- Simplifi pixifi
- Simply Studio System
- Snoots
- Softboxes
- Sound blimps
- Special effects projectors
- Studio strobe flashes
- StudioCloud
- StudioPlus Spectra
- SuccessWare
- Tablet computers
- Tave Studio Manager
- Telephoto lenses
- Twitter
- Web browser software
- White balancing lens filters
- Wide angle lenses
- Wireless flash triggers
- WordPress
- Zoom lenses
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