What does a professional photographer do?

Answer 1

Take professional photographs.

Answer 2

Well, the simple answer is take photos, but that only tell you part of the answer since you do not know the specialty.

There are many types of photographers, nature photographers, news/journalism, wedding/event, advertising/set, industrial, model/fashion, stock, aerial, motion picture/cinema, documentarians, and the list can go on. The only commonality these have is that they expose film. How they get to the point of taking the picture and how they handle it after are different for each.

Example: A studio / set / advertising photographer may spend days just to set up one shot. Arranging the element, adding mechanical effects, lighting, filtration as needed, and so on requires much patience and artfulness.

Example: A news / journalism photographer is all about getting that shot that tells the story in a visual way. This is much harder to do than you may think, but when you do you get icons in the memories of your readers. Here are two from WW II that you will remember, the pic of the flag raising over Iwo Gima and the Kiss of the returned GI and his gal in New York. These picture live with us. After the shot it is a rush to publish in a timely manner. The art here is getting the picture, not the set up or processing.

So, what a photographer does is really dependent on the type of photography he/she is doing.

Answer 3

Hello,
Well as we all know they take professional photographs. But to them (I say to them because we may not always see the same thing) a photograph, more like the one they just took, is a great piece of art. They create ART. Most professionals are very creative when taking a picture. Whether it is high fashion, glamor, or just plane land dirt. I guess when it just stops becoming a hobby and more of a profession is when we and they call themselves PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS. So My answer is this:
What does a professional photographer do?
He creates great ART! :- )

Thank You.

Answer 4

Takes photographs and gets paid money for doing so.

Answer 5

They capture specific moments in time (weddings, birthdays, etc..). Imagine how terrible not to have the infamous John Lennon/Yoko Ono photo laying in bed, or the horrific collapse of The Towers. Photos are timeless, and it is truly an art.

Answer 6

here is the defination of photography, and by defination a professional is someone who is paid for their work:

pho·tog·ra·phy (fə-tŏg'rə-fē) pronunciation
n.

1. The art or process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces.
2. The art, practice, or occupation of taking and printing photographs.
3. A body of photographs.

Photography

The process of forming stable or permanent visible images directly or indirectly by the action of light or other forms of radiation on sensitive surfaces. Traditional photography uses the action of light to cause changes in a film of silver halide crystals in which development converts exposed silver halide to (nonsensitive) metallic silver. Following exposure in a camera or other device, the film or plate is developed, fixed in a solution that dissolves the undeveloped silver halide, washed to remove the soluble salts, and dried. Printing from the original, if required, is done by contact or optical projection onto a second emulsion-coated material, and a similar sequence of processing steps is followed. Digital photography captures images directly with an electronic photosensor. See also Photographic materials.

Photography is practiced on a professional level for portraiture and for various commercial and industrial applications, including the preparation of photographs for advertising, illustration, display, and record-keeping. Press photography is for newspaper and magazine illustrations of topical events and objects. Photography is used at several levels in the graphic arts to convert original photographs or other illustrations into printing plates for high-quality reproduction in quantity. Industrial photography includes the generation and reproduction of engineering drawings, high-speed photography, schlieren photography, metallography, and many other forms of technical photography which can aid in the development, design, and manufacture of various products. Aerial photography is used for military reconnaissance and mapping, civilian mapping, urban and highway planning, and surveys of material resources. Biomedical photography is used to reveal or record biological structures, often of significance in medical research, diagnosis, or treatment. Photography is widely applied to preparing projection slides and other displays for teaching through visual education. See also Printing; Schlieren photography.

Photography is one of the most important tools in scientific and technical fields. It extends the range of vision, allowing records to be made of things or events which are difficult or impossible to see because they are too faint, too brief, too small, or too distant, or associated with radiation to which the eye is insensitive. Technical photographs can be studied at leisure, measured, and stored for reference or security. The acquisition and interpretation of images in scientific and technical photography usually requires direct participation by the scientist or skilled technicians.

Answer 7

Make the majority of his income from photography.

Answer 8

take photographs????

Answer 9

just take photo here.. take photo there .. take photo everywhere...

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