Personal Narrative: A Career As A Photographers

Traveling and seeing new cultures and capturing every moment of it. Photography has to do with creativity and the practice of taking and processing photos. I chose photography because it matched my personality and all of the things I wanted in a career. Photography is the best career choice based on the work environment, education and training, important qualities needed, salary, and job outlook.

Work Environment Photographers have many responsibilities in order to be successful. Photographers must know how to make little kids smile for the camera, they do this for all age groups. They do this by possibly making a silly face or placing a mirror in front of them etc.I think that this is important because if the kids or anyone didn’t smile for the camera, then the photos wouldn’t create a positive feeling. Photographers also need to know when to use the right lighting and when to and not to use the flash. They need to know this or else the pictures they take wouldn’t be as high quality. Another thing photographers need to do is create backgrounds for photo shoots. If photographers didn’t do this, then the background of every picture taken would be plain. To be successful, photographers have many responsibilities to take care of. Most photographers must travel while

Not a lot of education is needed for photography but many take classes. This is because there is not a lot of everything everyone needs to know about photography can be taught in fewer classes. I think that it’s nice that photography doesn’t require as much education as other careers. For training, people need to be able to take good photos. It takes years to perfect the picture taking. I don’t like this part of the job because I never knew that it took years to take a good photo. Even though there is more training required there is barely any education needed for