Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)

Designation of occupation

Photographer (m/f)

Duration of traineeship

3 years
The venues for training delivery are the training company and the vocational school

Field of activity

Photographers (m/f) work in craft businesses, industrial enterprises, research establishments and also on a freelance basis. They prepare, compose and take photographs and process them to provide the finished product. In their work they are required to take into account not only technical conditions and the intended use of the photographs but all the various creative and presentational requirements and conditions involved in the process of producing photographs.

Occupational skills

Photographers

• advise customers in the process of composing and taking photographs and plan the sequence of operations;
• produce picture concepts;
• translate their own or other picture concepts into photographs;
• process the photographs using analog and digital technology taking into account the content of the picture and necessary corrections;
• make the prepared data available for further use in various media or output them on different output devices;
• apply information and communications technology.
  

Last modified on: December 12, 2006