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Fashion Photographer


Fashion photographers spend their time shooting pictures of people to express their emotions through the clothes in which they are wearing for marketing, looks, and the purpose of photography. They take portraits of models and some times of still life. The background has a lot to do with the story that is being told but the main focus is on the clothes or outfit the person/model is wearing. Often times fashion photography is used for makeup or clothes lines in order to sell their products and intrigue the population in which they are targeting. Their photos are realistic, glamour, and expressionistic combined into one image. This field is very competitive in today’s world and is widely seen in advertisements everywhere. The model of the picture depicts what age group the clothes are meant for and who they are wanting to target as their buyers whether that is just female or just males or whether they have a combination of the two. The photographs can be taken in multiple different settings. They can be shot in rural, cities, innerscape, studio, and more spaces but the background isn’t the main purpose. Some fashion photographers shoot photos as portraits and really dive into the personality and inner emotion of their model while others focus on highlighting the pieces of their clothing, makeup, hair, etc. The photos in which these photographers take are seen all over the world in magazines, billboards, advertisements, and more.

In order to become a fashion photographer you will need to have an “excellent understanding of digital photography and lighting; ability to work in Adobe Photoshop or other editing software to touch up and alter images; networking and good business sense” (Become a Fashion Photographer: Step-by-Step Career Guide). No degree is required but, to help get a job in this field, because it was very competitive, you will want to attend college and at least get a bachelor’s degree. If you want to continue your education, I suggest getting your masters. This will appeal to the people hiring. While at college you will want to study photography in order to gain the skills needed that are listed above. Getting an entry level position to start practicing is highly recommended and can get your resume bettered before applying. While you start shooting more and more pictures, you will want to build a portfolio of your best works. This will be necessary when applying for a job so it is best to keep a running portfolio as you go. Start getting your name out there and book photo shoots for graduates, weddings, etc in order to better your clientele. The starting salary is around $39,928 as of 2015 and as the demand for fashion photographers increase, that salary can go up. Starting out you will get payed less but the more experience and clients, the higher your salary. The earlier you start, the better. The median salary is more around $60,000 and this salary won’t continue to increase until you start advancing your career. The chances of receiving a higher salary increases if you have your bachelor’s degree and even more if you get your masters. Depending on the job you get, you can be traveling the country or even out of the country with your clients. Others will tend to shoot photos in a studio. It is all based off of your career path and how advanced you get.

This career interested me the most out of all the other careers in photography because I love fashion, clothing makeup, etc. I would love seeing my works in magazines, on billboards, or getting talked about in the everyday world. There is the ability to advance and that is appealing to me because I like being able to be above others and to be able to push myself to become the best. I would lie being able to work with well known companies like Calvin Klein or well known magazines like Vogue. The schooling is short compared to medical fields or law school which is also appealing and I could chose not to go to college even though I am very looking forward to that experience. There is a lot of flexibility with this career because you can chose to do photoshoots but some photoshoots can last for a long time and the duration of them doesn’t have that great of an appeal to me.

As I was doing some research, I found three photographers that I really liked their work, Sebastian Kim: [|__http://www.sebastiankim.com/__], Conan Thai: [|__http://www.conanthai.com/__] , and Mikael Jansson: [|__http://www.mikaeljansson.com/__]. These three artists are in the top 20 of the most famous fashion photographers. Their works are well known throughout the country and are shown in famous magazines all over the world.

Fort his upcoming project I plan to get my friends together and have them dress up in unique and cute outfits that resemble fashion today so that they can put on a fashion show or I can take them to a cool scenery place so that I can do a photoshoot of them. They can do clothes changes so that I can fulfill the 3-5 series requirements. I have already asked some of them and they said they would be willing to do that it is just a matter of setting up a date and time when we can all hangout and do that. After I do that I can slightly edit the images and turn them in for my final project.