Photographers operate cameras to photograph people, events, scenes, materials, products and other subjects.

Photographers perform some or all of the following duties:

Study the requirements of an assignment to determine the proper equipment/lighting and operate still cameras to photograph people, events, scenes, materials, products, and other subjects;

Operate scanners/computers to transfer stills to a digital medium and manipulate photographic images;

Process film and retouch negatives using airbrush or computer techniques;

Adapt existing photographic images and create new digitized media for use in multimedia/new media products;

May specialize in portrait, commercial, scientific, forensic, medical, digitized or multimedia photography or photojournalism.

Aerial Photographer
Commercial Photographer
Forensic Photographer
Photographer
Photojournalist
Scientific Photographer

Photographers work for studios, newspapers, magazines, museums, and government or they may be self-employed.