Occupation Atlasphotographer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/66542dd6-05a6-4d9e-97ff-3f4858c31ff9
photographer
Photographers take pictures using digital or film cameras and equipment. Photographers may develop negatives or use computer software in order to produce finished images and prints.
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Job Zone
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
RACRealistic · Artistic · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic5.54
- A Artistic5.28
- C Conventional3.35
- E Enterprising2.28
- I Investigative2.18
- S Social1.94
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Photographers (27-4021.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (16)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- create artificial light
- create digital images
- design an artificial lighting system
- determine image composition
- develop an artistic framework
- develop visual elements
- license photo usage
- maintain photographic equipment
- operate a camera
- prepare personal work environment
- select auxiliary equipment for photographic work
- select photographic equipment
- select photos
- set up cameras
- set up photographic equipment
- test photographic equipment
Optional (37)
- advertising techniques
- advise customers on photography
- architectural design
- art collections
- brand marketing techniques
- care for food aesthetic
- collaborate with a technical staff in artistic productions
- communicate with youth
- computer graphics
- conduct extensive international travel
- create infrared imagery
- design greeting cards
- develop artistic educational activities
- develop artistic project budgets
- develop film
- digital marketing techniques
- direct photographic workers
- edit negatives
- edit photographs
- handle artworks
- home decoration techniques
- landscape architecture
- load film
- measure light levels
- mount photos
- organise product display
- prepare digital art for master photograph
- represent company in exhibitions
- research new photographic procedures
- scan photos
- select camera apertures
- set up photographic exhibitions
- social media marketing techniques
- sporting events
- swim
- use photographic equipment
- wildlife
O*NET equivalents
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