How to apply for a photography assistant

Understand the following contents and apply for the job.

The occupation of a photographer's assistant is to help the photographer who is officially shooting complete the shooting work. And even in the same photography job, there may be many photography assistants with different division of labor, such as portrait wedding photos, portraits and other indoor photography jobs. Generally, there are three photography assistants, specifically lighting photography assistant and modeling photography assistant, and the other one is responsible for some assistant work except lighting and modeling.

Outdoor photography assistants do many kinds of work, such as landscape photography. Some big professional photographers will invite many assistants, and there are also many specific jobs, such as equipment assistants, equipment management or equipment during hiking, and photometry assistants. Of course, these complicated tasks can be done by many people or one person.

In fact, the photography assistant is the photographer's reserve team. Being a good photographer will help you understand the profession of photographer. You must first know your photographer's shooting style. If a photographer's shooting style is decided, he will like his assistant to set the lighting and modeling according to his style. If you have your opinions, you'd better communicate with your photographer in private. The photographer doesn't like his assistant interrupting his thinking when shooting.

In addition, the photography assistant should know the performance of the equipment you use. Just like a photographer, you should have an effect picture in your mind before you use the light. Even in digital photography, you should repeatedly study and measure the position and index of the light, so as to ensure that your photographer has a high success rate of pressing the shutter. Don't ask questions such as "Is the lighting position ok" and "Is the indicator appropriate" at work. These questions are all done by the photography assistant for the photographer.

Specifically, the following aspects should be done well.

1, customer first, enthusiastic service, civility and courtesy, cleanliness and hygiene, earnest and meticulous work, meticulous, hard-working, decent style, self-centered, with good professional ethics, abiding by various rules and regulations and obeying work arrangements. Humor, adjust the customer's mood in time.

2. Respect the master, cooperate with the master to do every step of receiving customers, warmly receive customers, and actively solve things for customers.

3. Have a certain knowledge of photography technology, understand and master the basic operation process of photography technology.

4, assiduously study business technology, and have a sense of innovation, to assist the master to do a good job in photography.

5. Abide by discipline, take good care of public property, strictly implement the rules and regulations of the studio, don't leave without leave, and don't do anything unrelated to this position at work.

6, familiar with the basic knowledge of photography and operating procedures, familiar with the performance, characteristics and usage of various photographic equipment.

7. At the beginning of the word "please" in the service, "thank you" never leaves the mouth, and send greetings when seeing the guests off.

8. Maintain the environmental sanitation of photographic equipment and studios.

9. Photographic items shall not be used without the consent of the supervisor.

10, register the film and send it to the film editor in time after shooting.

1 1, when shooting, take the initiative to play a funny role, so that customers and photographers can enter a good atmosphere to complete the shooting task.

12. When shooting, adjust the background cloth, lamps and electrical appliances in time at the request of the photographer.

13. Every time you finish a suit, you should send the customer to the makeup assistant and open and close the door for him. You can't let the customer leave alone.

14. When posing for customers, you must not destroy the customer's styling and makeup, and you must not breathe into the customer.

15, the photography assistant must clean the studio, clean the photographic equipment, check whether it can work normally, and solve problems in time.

16. put the film in the camera and take a seat accordingly. Don't shoot it empty or wrong. After shooting a suit, remember the number of pictures taken and the POSE used, and don't reuse the same POSE.

17. Put the props back in time after use, and don't throw them around. After work, turn off all power supplies in time and put away photographic equipment.