Film and Photography Careers
Salary ranges from $6.53 to $7.84 per hour
Slower than average growth, is expected for photographic
process workers and processing machine operators through the
year 2012. Most openings will result from replacement needs,
which are higher for machine operators than for photographic
process workers.
In recent years, the use of digital cameras, which use electronic
memory rather than film to record images, has grown rapidly
among professional photographers and advanced amateurs.
As the cost of digital photography drops, the use of such
cameras will become more widespread among amateur photographers,
reducing the demand for traditional photographic processing
machine operators.
Career Requirements
Most photographic process workers and processing machine
operators receive on-the-job training from their companies,
manufacturers’ representatives, and experienced workers.
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Job Description
Photographic processing machine operators
operate various machines, such as mounting presses and motion
picture film printing, photographic printing, and film developing
machines.
Photographic process workers perform more delicate tasks,
such as retouching photographic negatives and prints to emphasize
or correct specific features.
Film process technicians operate machines
that develop exposed photographic film or sensitized paper
in a series of chemical and water baths to produce negative
or positive images.
Color printer operators control equipment
that produces color prints from negatives. These workers read
customer instructions to determine processing requirements.
They load film into color printing equipment, examine negatives
to determine equipment control settings, set controls, and
produce a specified number of prints.
Finally, they inspect the finished prints for defects, remove
any that are found, and insert the processed negatives and
prints into an envelope for return to the customer.
Photographic retouchers alter photographic
negatives, prints, or images to accentuate the subject. Colorists
apply oil colors to portrait photographs to create natural,
lifelike appearances.
Photographic spotters remove imperfections
on photographic prints and images.
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Some data sourced from: Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
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