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Apply for job Salary c£23k pro rata Category Design & Creative Location England – North East Job Function Photography Job Type Contract Date Posted 7 September 2011 Description
Photographer – North East Salary c£23k pro rata – Initial 6 month contract Our client are a public sector organisation who are currently looking to recruit a full time Photographer to cover a maternity leave contract. The initial contract is 6 months but this has potential to extend or go permanent at the end of the initial period. The main function of the role is to assist in the day to day operation of the Media Resources Unit and to form part of a team supplying the media needs of both the Company and external agencies (where appropriate). MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES • To assist in the provision of photographic services relevant to the effective function of the Media Resource Unit. • Comply with all instructions, policies and corporate guidelines in accordance with standard Service procedures. • To liaise with clients on photographic requirements, including design brief specifications, storyboards and budgets in order to reach agreement on the final product and achieve customer satisfaction. • To provide completed photographic work including:- o Advice on technical and operational facilities, including limitations to service users. o Illustration and visual work in line with graphic design requirements. o Displays and design work. o Interpret the request of customers, internally and externally, and realise artistic requirements in the most creative way and to contribute creative ideas and solutions on projects. o Carry out photography, either in studio or out on location taking into account time constraints, lighting requirements, weather and risk assessments. • Provide photography for productions of publications either in-house or externally as appropriate to meet standards of quality and timelines and to obtain value for money. • Comply with copyright law and other relevant legislation and obtain permission to reproduce copyright material in order to ensure legal infringements are avoided. • To have the ability to operate all photographic equipment, as directed and to ensure efficient maintenance of such equipment. • To operate IT equipment in connection with photography and associated artwork. • To collate photographs and associated artwork in booklet format for the Company’s reports. • To set and maintain systems for photography work involving external agencies as appropriate including photographic library. • Keep up to date regarding developments in techniques and equipment relative to photography. • To provide specialist advice in photography areas of project work undertaken within the unit and to research additional related fields as necessary. • To assist in the operation of video, audio-visual equipment, pa systems and graphic design, as required. • To provide out of hours cover in respect of photographic and video work at functions. • To maintain accurate records as necessary i.e. video, photographic and graphic artwork. • To be actively involved in the production of training and development aids as required. • To administer and operate an in-house digital photographic library and loans of equipment function. • To print any digital photographic work, slide, negative or transparencies work for departments, including the production of incident work. • To be able to work at heights and confined spaces. • To have responsibility for consent forms – ensure stock of forms available, follow legal guidelines regarding consent to have images taken, and advise staff accordingly. • Assist in producing and updating policy and procedure regarding photography/video. • Provide training to other staff on the use of digital cameras/downloading photographs. • Ensure regular updated supply of new images for use internally and externally to promote all aspects work carried out. • To ensure compliance with the Data Protection Act and ensure data security is maintained. • To attend internal and external training courses as necessary. • To undertake any other duties appropriate to the post. if you’re looking for media jobs North East, this could be your ideal opportunity. Click apply to find out more. due to the high volume of candidates responding to our adverts we are not always able to provide feedback on your application. if you hear nothing from us in 5 days please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Your details will be kept on file and you may be contacted about other opportunities.
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Hello, i am 15 years old and i am trying to aim for a Photographer when i get older. would it be necessary for me to go to college to take classes? All i own is a digital camera, and I have no experience.
Would someone please explain to me the different KINDS of photographers (all i know is freelance), and the different kinds of cameras i could look into?
That would take a book, which is why there are books about it. Check out your local library. It's the big building with all the books that they loan out for free.
i once saw a flintstones show and they had a bird inside a box that would chisel out a picture on a piece of rock.
Good day Annie,
Try this link:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography
Hope it helps & good luck…!
ok well there is alot so i cant explain all of it but I can try I am a photographer my self digital cameras are ok but I like manuals better you can focus in a given thing alot better. but there are black and white; then color; then you can do things like morphing the picture in the dark room where you only bring out one color and leave the rest black and white and then there is motion photography that is the funnest to me. but go to photography.com they will show you alot of good picks and how to do them and with what kind of camera hopefully I helped good luck and god bless
Very broad subject. look up Photographer's Market's Guide to Starting a Photography Business.
Photography covers a large area; if an image will work then photography is part of it. Just off the top of my head, you could do wedding photography, portraiture, sports, news, advertising, documentary, illustration, … You could freelance, work for a publication as a staff photographer, open a portraiture studio, etc.
If you wish to pursue photography as a profession, then I would suggest that your studies should include art and business subjects. I would suggest working with a councilor in your school to help you decide what path to follow in your education and what colleges offer programs of study that meet your needs.
To help you get an idea of the possible paths open to you, check out the Brooks Institute of Photography: brooks.edu/. it is but one of many schools that offer degrees in the visual arts. I provide the link as the information provided on the web site will help give you a feel for the various options. for example, check out the page for Professional Photography (brooks.edu/stillphoto.asp) and the various links off of it.
If possible, see if you can become a member of your school newspaper/annual staff as a photographer. it would provide a way for you to get valuable experience.
As for equipment, start with whatever you have and move up when you out grow it. While the equipment does matter, I have seen excellent work done with the cheapest cameras and truly bad work done with very expensive equipment.
As others have pointed out, the library and local book stores are a great source of information. If there is a local camera club, consider joining it.
I wish you luck. Many years ago, photography was my chosen path and I put myself through college doing advertising photography. Somehow I got side tracked into computers and am winding down a career in that area. I have always keep a strong interest in photography and am working on doing it as my "second" career.
The first thing you need to do is chuck that digital camera and get a digital SLR. You know those professional looking HUGE cameras. Then you can start your training. 
I have been on pins and needles waiting to share these images!!! And I only had to wait 2 days!
A couple weeks ago I was asked to photograph the older girl’s first riding lesson (which I need to share more of too now that her mom has seen those!) and while I was there her dad pulled me aside and asked if I could come do a session with all three children as a surprise for Mother’s Day. we planned it all out and got mom out of the house Tuesday evening. he was planning to wait to show her all of the proofs on Mother’s Day, but after seeing them yesterday he just couldn’t hold it in anymore.
And I’m not complaining because I’ve been waiting to share them!
This session was so me and had all of my favorite elements, including some killer sun flare and haze which I am a huge sucker for.
Here are my favorites (okay, I won’t lie, almost all of them… I just couldn’t choose!)
This little guy was such a goof ball the entire time. he was pretty much everywhere my camera wasn’t!I just know he’s thinking, ‘where can I run to from here?!’And he did. Which gave me a change to shoot this beauty.Ah ha – sitting for a split second!“I’ll keep him still… I’ll hold his piggies!”These next two belong in canvas, side by side.
You may have heard about a little thing The Suniverse and I created called the Raw Photos Contest. Speaking of which, if you haven’t submitted yet, you only have a few more days, so get on that yo. also, look in later post to learn about how you’ll vote on your fave photos because it’s reader’s choice this month!
Have you heard how it got started? This is a great story.
Before I go on, I want to say that my intention here is not to offend anyone. I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. I’m not attacking anyone personally. This is just my philosophy on photography. okay, has everyone got their sensitive hats tucked away? Awesome.
Soooooo I don’t photoshop my photos. I may crop a little or do slight adjustments sometimes, with the exception of my mastheads (because that’s more like creating graphics), but for the most part, I believe that a photo can be beautiful without all the fancy shmacy edits.
anyway, you may have heard of a little blog called The Pioneer Woman. She’s only like super famous and has a cookbook and the whole world loves her. So I used to enter the PW photo contests, not that I expected my little photography to win. I was going up against experienced photographers and I’m really new in that world in the grand scheme of things. I really only started 4 years ago and, I think, started to show some real promise within the last year.
but what was disheartening to me was that all the photos PW chose as finalists would be totally, obviously photoshopped. I tweeted about it this past summer. I said something like, if I photoshopped my photos maybe Pioneer Woman would like me too. Something like that. and my newish Twitter friend, The Suniverse, replied in confirmation. Turned out I wasn’t alone. she hated the photoshoppers too. Maybe hate is a strong word. Detest is more accurate. just kidding. I can’t speak for Sun.
We joked that we should start out own contest. Then we really thought we really could! We would start our own contest! and the rest is history. It’s been a ton of fun too, proving that a natural photo, one that represents what the world looks like through a lens with only the skill of the photographer and the camera can be gorgeous.
I have nothing personally against people who use Photoshop to slightly improve their photos. I should rephrase. I have nothing against anyone who does anything at all that doesn’t hurt anyone else. if you photoshop like crazy, good for you. Have fun. but I do think that if you take a crappy photo and photoshop it until it’s beautiful, you are, in a sense, cheating.
or you’re not a photographer, in my opinion; you’re just a great photo editor. Mad props to your computer skills.
My friend Coco and I joke about this all the time. We could just add all the elements in we want and we never have to take a decent photo at all! The Pioner Woman would loooove us! Easy! I don’t know why people complain about how hard photography is. Har de har har.
You can’t photoshop in blur and call it bokeh. You can’t just add a filter action to your photo and call it cross-processing or antique. You can’t add Holga-esque features and call it a Holga shot. You want a Holga shot? Buy a fucking Holga.
on the other hand, cool features can be, well, cool and I’ve seen photoshop used to create artworks that are abstract and interesting to be sure. I have appreciated photoshop when used tastefully and artfully.
but at what point are you creating art vs creating a photo without ever having to actually take a decent photo? at what point is it not photography?
I got started in photography through film. Correction: I started with a shitty little point and shoot, while I hung around film photographers and got the photography bug and then started shooting with a Holga. The addiction started from there and now I have like 4 antique cameras sitting around and a box of film I can’t afford to develop, but thus began my philosophy of what photography is.
with film, it’s just you and the camera. It’s an exercise in patience. You choose your shots carefully and you set them up with care because you’ve only got one shot each time. and there is no delete button.
Last time I was in New Orleans, I was taking a shot of a cool building on my Holga. I took a long time to choose my shot and get the focus right and just as I clicked, this tall douchecanoe walked right in front on my camera. I gasped in horror and he turned and said, “Just delete it!” I yelled, “It’s film!”
So why would I do anything different with digital? The beauty of digital is that delete button and that it costs nothing to download a memory card. Fancy yes? I’m such an old fashioned gal. What can I say? I was born an old lady.
Since we’ve started the contest, I’ve met more and more photographers who agree with us. True photography is becoming a lost art form. no longer do you need to worry about light and shutter speed and aperture and white balance and ISO because you can just fix it in the editing process.
and lardy knows I’ve taken some crappy shots, but that’s the fun of photography! It’s all chance sometimes and it’s up to me to keep trying because I refuse to rely on an editing program to salvage my shots.
So the other day, I was telling an Internet friend about all the photos I took last Spring in the New Orleans bayou. she asked me to put them on flickr, so I chose like 5 shots and posted them. This is one of the shots (you can see the rest in this set, along with some others from NOLA and even some Holga shots):
I didn’t edit this photo at all. I didn’t boost the color or change the saturation or exposure. This is it, straight out of the camera. My camera could in no way capture how incredibly lush the swamp really was, but I think it’s pretty damn close. I was very happy with this series.
Then the other day, I received this comment on the above photo:
great photo! Perhaps if you shot this in HDR format, then you could capture even more of the reflection!
on the one hand, I am happy to receive criticism on my work and you really open yourself up to that on flickr. but I’m looking for actual photography tips. tell me how a better angle or shutter speed or white balance would have made this shot better. Give me REAL advice! REAL critques!
You can even tell me my shot sucks hairy monkey ass. but don’t tell me to photoshop or shoot in HDR. Don’t tell me that the real world is now less beautiful than a high definition world. really? are we that desensitized to real, natural beauty that we have to see bolder! crisper! sharper! in order to find it good?
Life is not in HD. It’s not. Our eyeballs will always be better than a camera lens (though our eyes don’t create bokeh, so the camera wins there.), but when did we stop being happy with the beauty we see with our eyes? My whole goal with photography is to capture the beauty I see, even to capture views or angles we don’t take the time to notice, but not to improve on it. Not to be so audacious as to think I can make it better with a fancy mode or program.
Am I being too much of a nazi about this? Perhaps. I can be a bit of a snob. I just think that it’s sad that we no longer appreciate the natural shots.
What about Ansel Adams? he just had a camera and a dark room. Shit, he didn’t even have color film! but his black and white shots showed the world the exquisite beauty of Yosemite. no HD. no Photoshop.
That’s the challenge of photography and what I love about it! just you, the camera, and the world. It’s up to you to find the ligh and wield your camera with talent, to learn just how each setting will affect a shot, how adjusting one thing like aperture or shutter speed or ISO will change everything. It’s about the camera, not about a computer.
I got started in photography because I was intrigued by the world through a lens. with the challenge behind that. and THAT’S what I want to celebrate with the Raw Photos Contest.
That’s what makes photography special and exciting.