Aerial photographer

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

• taking photographs for advertising, commercial, industrial or scientific purposes and to illustrate material and articles in newspapers, magazines and other publications;
• taking photographic portraits of people and groups of people;
• studying the requirements of each assignment and selecting the type of camera, film, lighting and background;
• determining picture composition, making technical adjustments and positioning equipment and subjects;
• operating scanners to transfer photographic images to computers;
• operating computers to process photographic images;
• adapting existing photographic images to create digital images for inclusion in multimedia products;
• using computer and other techniques to achieve desired effects.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Photographer
• Photojournalist
• Aerial photography
• Scientific photography
• Art photography