3431-Photographers

Job Title: 

Photographers

Job Description: 

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

Tasks: 

Tasks include

  • taking photographs for advertising, or other commercial, industrial or scientific purposes and to illustrate stories and articles in newspapers, magazines and other publications
  • taking portrait photographs of persons and groups of persons
  • studying requirements of a particular assignment and decide on type of camera, film, lighting and background accessories to be used
  • determining picture composition, making technical adjustments to equipment and photograph subject
  • operating scanners to transfer photographic images to computers
  • operating computers to manipulate photographic images
  • adapting existing photographic images to create new digitized images to be included in multimedia products
  • using airbrush, computer or other techniques to create the desired visual effect.
Specific Occupations: 

34311
Photographer (advertising/commercial/fashion/micro)/ architecture/industrial/ medical/ news)/Photojournalist

34312
Photographer (aerial/police/portrait/press/scientific)

34313
Journalist, photo/Micro photographer/Operator, camera: still photography

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Source Of Info: 

Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, PSCO-2211