Photographers operate still cameras to photograph people, events, scenes, materials, products and other subjects.
Skill level:
Skilled
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- Salary range for the majority of workers in Photographers - from GH₵1,666 to GH₵12,021 per month - 2025.
- A Photographers typically earns between GH₵1,666 and GH₵5,934 net per month at the start of the job.
- After 5 years of service, this is between GH₵2,640 and GH₵10,675 per month for a working week of 40 hours.
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Job Responsibilities
- 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
