Job Demand: High
Average weekly wage: $1,056
Where you could work:
Photographic Studio - Rix-Ryan Photography
Self Employed
Photographers do the following tasks:
- consulting with clients to determine objectives of photographic assignments
- studying requirements of assignment and selecting type of camera, film, filter and lighting
- working from a studio, and transporting and setting up equipment at assigned locations
- measuring light levels and determining exposure
- adjusting camera angles, aperture settings and subjects to achieve desired composition
- adjusting lighting and filters to accentuate highlights and colours
- mixing photographic chemicals, processing film and developing prints
- manipulating images using digital imaging techniques and creative darkroom techniques such as adjusting exposure and development times
- may make enlarged prints, and mount and frame prints
- digital manipulations using tools such as Adobe Photoshop and other Creative Suite programs