Commercial photographer competencies

Commercial photographer competencies

In this post, you can ref competencies needed for Commercial photographer position. The standard job competencies include knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA model).

Apart from that, you can ref a job qualification also contains other elements such as education, experience, license, qualities, training courses, physical requirements, degree or certificates…

I. Job qualifications

You can find out competencies from standard job qualification below:

1. Working knowledge of Lightroom, Capture One or other digital capture software applications in the Mac environment required.
2. Experience processing RAW digital images to standard output file formats (tif, psd, jpeg, etc.) required
3. Experience use of digital photography equipment required. Experience using Nikon or Hasselblad digital equipment preferred
4. Familiarity with standard digital photography and lens selection concepts, practices, and procedures with working understanding of how natural lighting, artificial lighting, lens selection, camera positioning and digital image retouching contribute to the success of an image.

II. Key skills employers are looking for

Below are top 7 skills/abilities that every employers are looking for, you should pay attention to them:

1. Adaptability/Flexibility
2. Dependability/Reliability/Responsibility
3. Teamwork
4. Positive Attitude
5. Professionalism
6. Willingness to Learn
7. Communications Skills