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- Photographers

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