What job's are in photography?

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I'm just curious really.

Obviously the main ones are wedding and babies.

What jobs and what kind of money could you be seeing from the job in hand?

Thanks, Alex
 
It's a pretty extensive list - weddings, portraits, commercial, industrial, studio (products), fashion, glamour, events, stock, reportage, travel, sports, nature, scientific, etc...

The money can vary almost as much from a pittance to a fortune.
 
I think pxl8 covered everything I could think of. Also agree with the money, it depends on a number of things.. I mean I'm sure you'd get good money from working in a normal studio, but then you'd get more I'd imagine if you ran it.. but if it were one that catered to celebrities or something, then you'd obviously be earning more.
 
Can be surgery, before and after treatment pics, staff pics and also some more specialist stuff with microscopes and endoscopes. Basically anything in a hospital.
 
I don't think that's a wonderful salary at all, really, for a medical photographer, especially if they are wanting other high level qualifications as well!

Cathy
 
a friend of ours used to be a medical photographer but she found she could make a lot more money selling her photographs of flowers and does that full time now instead
 
CJR said:
I don't think that's a wonderful salary at all, really, for a medical photographer, especially if they are wanting other high level qualifications as well!

Cathy
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Does anyone really work in the NHS for the salary?
 
AliB said:
Does anyone really work in the NHS for the salary?
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I agree, probably not. I work in the NHS and consider that I get paid very well for doing a job I enjoy, but I guess that people in non clinical jobs such as Gary''s mate the GP practice IT manager don't earn anywhere near what they could do in the private sector.

Cathy
 
i went to talk to a NHS photographer about work experience, and he said now that alot of the photography now is to stop the hospital being sued, he did things like mug shots of the staff and made leaflets/posters and covered the events at the hospital aswell. He also did so eye photography stuff which was pretty cool.
 
That £19k NHS sallery was the starting wage, it goes up to £26k which isn't bad at all.

For a student fresh out of Uni, £19k is alot. I'd be happy with £14k and would probably be able to live on 12k.

Plus working in the NHS would be cool, quite a rewarding job.
 
I would say this to anyone just starting out (as I was 25 years ago).......

Forget your next job, forget tomorrow, forget next year even: work out where you want to be at the end, wherever the 'end' is, and work towards that.

For example if you want to be the next Lord Litchfield, there is no point in taking that NHS job as it will only hold you back (or you'll end up doing it for the next ten years and then it will become impossible to break free).

I used to be a TV Cameraman, and my goal was F1. You can't just turn up and ask for a job in F1 so I started at the bottom, working for small production companies working on lesser motor sports: I actually started working on Karts. It took a few years, but I worked my way up through different motor sports, finally to BTCC. After a year of that, I got my break into F1 and worked with FOA for 36 races (until all the travel got to me).

The point I'm trying to make is don't take a job unless it will take you somewhere you want to go.

If I was 25 years younger and only had myself to worry about, I would get a job as an assistant/gofor/tea maker with a person or company who were working in the field I want to work in.

Good luck with whatever you do :thumbs:
 
Shakey said:
i went to talk to a NHS photographer about work experience, and he said now that alot of the photography now is to stop the hospital being sued, he did things like mug shots of the staff and made leaflets/posters and covered the events at the hospital aswell. He also did so eye photography stuff which was pretty cool.
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i know that they take photos of children's injuries as well but to be honest have never had much to do with them in my day to day work, just seen the ads in the staff job thingies.
 
Ohhh, it does..!


Actually, I married one who nursed me back to health after a motorbike accident - took me 2 years to recover, so maybe she was just a rubbish nurse though....
 
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