What type of photography jobs are they?

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Im looking for apprenticeships but all I find is like wedding photography, is there no actual job like taking photos of scenery?
 
I noticed you have started recently (a bit like me). People seem to be going into do further & higher education (HND/degrees) before getting into photography jobs. The courses will at least explain the basics like exposure triangle, iso, shutter speeds & DoF then get you to apply it. Have you thought about that?

Forgive the cynical response, but I would like someone to pay me to go on trips to look at and photo awe inspiring landscapes too! If there are jobs like that then they are few and far between with experienced folk queuing.
 
JaackBrown said:
Im looking for apprenticeships but all I find is like wedding photography, is there no actual job like taking photos of scenery?
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Apprenticeships in photography tend to be in commercial photography notable advertising and fashion where it is known as assisting. Or you could do an NCTJ course and try to get into newspaper work.

You'd be lucky to walk into a good/full-time assisting job in the current environment without a degree - the large numbers of graduates looking for those would trump you if you are starting out.

You'd be exceptionally unlikely to get an apprenticeship in landscape, wildlife ever or even motorsport, and social photography now. Most photographers who'd want to train up new photographers want training fees not to pay them - the market has changed significantly.

As has been said the common route is to have another FT job, learn as much as you can by trial and error, workshops, the internet and forums, and gradually try to either make photography a decent part-time job or maybe if you are talented, and a savvy businessman a FT job - although I'm not sure even how long that is going to last you given the way the industry is going.
 
george g said:
People seem to be going into do further & higher education (HND/degrees) before getting into photography jobs. The courses will at least explain the basics like exposure triangle, iso, shutter speeds & DoF
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I would expect people to know about that sort of thing, the basics as you refer to it, before they start such a course.

george g said:
Forgive the cynical response, but I would like someone to pay me to go on trips to look at and photo awe inspiring landscapes too! If there are jobs like that then they are few and far between with experienced folk queuing.
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I have a cousin who works for the council in environmental protection. Sometimes it seems that he gets paid just to walk around taking photographs!


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I'd think long and hard about how many career eggs you want to put in the photography basket in the current climate. As has been discussed to death elsewhere, the accessibility of digital photography has devalued the market. And it's only going to get worse, with exponential advances in computational photography making conventional digital photography (as we know it today) as obsolete in the next decade as film is now.
The last true skills of manual photography like controlling focus & DoF, and controlling light will be fully automated, click of a mouse stuff, within ten years. Maybe sooner.
 
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ghoti said:
I'd think long and hard about how many career eggs you want to put in the photography basket in the current climate.
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Sad but true I feel :( think it'll be difficult in a few years for even some very good photographers to use it as even a PT job.
 
And there is Braiswick near to me who advertise the same job(s) each and every year. Not sure what happens to those who get employed one year and gone the next. Must be smart, strong, personable , willing to drive everywhere, no photographic experience ness...
 
Start by getting together a portfolio of work, it's a competitive market, not least for new recruits like yourself. Are you thinking of studying at college or university?
 
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