Photographer

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Photographer
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Nature of the work
Photographers produce and preserve images that
paint a picture, tell a story, or record an
event. Today a lot of photographers use digital
cameras. To create commercial-quality
photographs, photographers need both technical
expertise and creativity. For example,
photographers may enhance the subjects
appearance with natural or artificial light,
shoot the subject from an interesting angle, draw
attention to a particular aspect of the subject
by blurring the background, or use various lenses
to produce desired levels of detail at various
distances from the subject.
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Working conditions

• Working conditions for photographers vary
  considerably. Photographers who work for the
  government and advertising studios work usually a
  5-day 40-50 hour week. New photographers on the
  other hand can work a long, tiring, work day and
  must be able to go work on a very short notice.
  Portrait photographers though usually have there
  own studios where they take customers the go
  according to there schedule. They may have to
  travel to other customers places to take photos
  such as like at a school. Photographers often
  dont take most of there time taking pictures.
  The most common activity that a photographer does
  is edit the images on the computer. Some
  photographers can work in some very dangerous
  places like at the scene of an accident, natural
  disasters, civil unrest, or military conflicts.

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Employment

• Photographers held about 129,000 jobs in 2004.
  More than half were self-employed, a much higher
  proportion than for most occupations. Some
  self-employed photographers have contracts with
  advertising agencies, magazine publishers, or
  other businesses to do individual projects for a
  set fee, while others operate portrait studios or
  provide photographs to stock-photo agencies.

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Earnings

• Median annual earnings of salaried photographers
  were 26,080 in May 2004. middle 50 percent
  earned between 18,380 and 37,370. The lowest 10
  percent earned less than 15,000, and the highest
  10 percent earned more than 54,180.

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Job Outlook

• Photographers can expect a lot of competition for
  jobs because the work is attractive to many
  people. The people that want to work in this
  field is to high for how many jobs there are out
  there. Improvements in digital technology reduce
  barriers of entry into this profession and allow
  more individual consumers and businesses to
  produce, store, and access photographic images on
  their own.

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Schooling

• Employers usually seek applicants with a good
  eye, imagination, and creativity, as well as a
  good technical understanding of photography.
  Entry-level positions in photojournalism or in
  industrial or scientific photography generally
  require a college degree in photography or in a
  field related to the industry in which the
  photographer seeks employment. Freelance and
  portrait photographers need technical
  proficiency, gained through either a degree
  program, vocational training, or extensive
  photography experience.

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The End
By Tyler Martin