Role
AI for Photographers
Founder, Automation Squad
Photograph people, landscapes, merchandise, or other subjects. May use lighting equipment to enhance a subject's appearance. May use editing software to produce finished images and prints. Includes commercial and industrial photographers, scientific photographers, and photojournalists.
Photographers · O*NET 27-4021.00 · Job Zone 3 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database
Automation coverage
23 of 35tools on this list have an AI solution available today
Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.
AI you can use for this job
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Youtube
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Calendbook
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Microsoft Excel
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MCP serverAdobe Photoshop Lightroom is the cloud-based service that gives you everything you need to edit, organize, store, and share your photos across any device.
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The tools this job actually uses
35 documented for this occupation. Showing 35, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.
- Adobe Acrobathot
- Adobe After Effectshot
- Adobe Creative Cloud softwarehot
- Adobe Illustratorhot
- Adobe InDesignhot
- Adobe Photoshophot
- Apple macOShot
- Facebookhot
- Intuit QuickBookshot
- Microsoft Accesshot
- Microsoft Excelhot
- Microsoft Wordhot
- WordPresshot
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
- Apple Final Cut Pro
- Blinkbid
- Cradoc fotoBiz
- Email software
- Genbook
- Google Drive
- HindSight InView
- Light Blue Software Light Blue
- ShootQ photography studio management software
- ShootZilla
- Simplifi pixifi
- Simply Studio System
- SmugMug Flickr
- StudioCloud
- StudioPlus Spectra
- SuccessWare service management software
- Tave Studio Manager
- Web browser software
- WeVideo
- YouTube
What this job involves
30 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.
- Adjust apertures, shutter speeds, and camera focus according to a combination of factors, such as lighting, field depth, subject motion, film type, and film speed.
- Create artificial light, using flashes and reflectors.
- Determine desired images and picture composition, selecting and adjusting subjects, equipment, and lighting to achieve desired effects.
- Transfer photographs to computers for editing, archiving, and electronic transmission.
- Use traditional or digital cameras, along with a variety of equipment, such as tripods, filters, and flash attachments.
- Manipulate and enhance scanned or digital images to create desired effects, using computers and specialized software.
- Take pictures of individuals, families, and small groups, either in studio or on location.
- Enhance, retouch, and resize photographs and negatives, using airbrushing and other techniques.
- Test equipment prior to use to ensure that it is in good working order.
- Estimate or measure light levels, distances, and numbers of exposures needed, using measuring devices and formulas.
- Perform general office duties, such as scheduling appointments, keeping books, and ordering supplies.
- Review sets of photographs to select the best work.
- Set up, mount, or install photographic equipment and cameras.
- Determine project goals, locations, and equipment needs by studying assignments and consulting with clients or advertising staff.
- Perform maintenance tasks necessary to keep equipment working properly.
- Select and assemble equipment and required background properties, according to subjects, materials, and conditions.
- Direct activities of workers setting up photographic equipment.
- Send film to photofinishing laboratories for processing.
- Develop visual aids and charts for use in lectures or to present evidence in court.
- Load and unload film.
- Engage in research to develop new photographic procedures and materials.
- Mount, frame, laminate, or lacquer finished photographs.
- Write photograph captions.
- Set up photographic exhibitions for the purpose of displaying and selling work.
