Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators

Perform work involved in developing and processing photographic images from film or digital media. May perform precision tasks such as editing photographic negatives and prints.

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

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Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

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Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed

Select digital images for printing, specify number of images to be printed, and direct to printer, using computer software.

Create prints according to customer specifications and laboratory protocols.

Produce color or black-and-white photographs, negatives, or slides, applying standard photographic reproduction techniques and procedures.

Set or adjust machine controls, according to specifications, type of operation, or material requirements.

Review computer-processed digital images for quality.

Operate scanners or related computer equipment to digitize negatives, photographic prints, or other images.

Fill tanks of processing machines with solutions such as developer, dyes, stop-baths, fixers, bleaches, or washes.

Measure and mix chemicals to prepare solutions for processing, according to formulas.

Load digital images onto computers directly from cameras or from storage devices, such as flash memory cards or universal serial bus (USB) devices.

Operate special equipment to perform tasks such as transferring film to videotape or producing photographic enlargements.

Examine developed prints for defects, such as broken lines, spots, or blurs.

Read work orders to determine required processes, techniques, materials, or equipment.

Load circuit boards, racks or rolls of film, negatives, or printing paper into processing or printing machines.

Insert processed negatives and prints into envelopes for delivery to customers.

Reprint originals for enlargement or in sections to be pieced together.

Clean or maintain photoprocessing or darkroom equipment, using ultrasonic equipment or cleaning and rinsing solutions.

Monitor equipment operation to detect malfunctions.

Maintain records, such as quantities or types of processing completed, materials used, or customer charges.

Operate machines to prepare circuit boards and to expose, develop, etch, fix, wash, dry, or print film or plates.

Immerse film, negatives, paper, or prints in developing solutions, fixing solutions, and water to complete photographic development processes.

Examine quality of film fades or dissolves for potential color corrections, using color analyzers.

Thread filmstrips through densitometers or sensitometers and expose film to light to determine density of film, necessary color corrections, or light sensitivity.

Shade negatives or photographs with pencils to smooth facial contours, soften highlights, or conceal blemishes, stray hairs, or wrinkles.

Examine drawings, negatives, or photographic prints to determine coloring, shading, accenting, or other changes required for retouching or restoration.

Place sensitized paper in frames of projection printers, photostats, or other reproduction machines.

Upload digital images onto Web sites for customers.

Dry prints or negatives using sponges, squeegees, mechanical air dryers, or drying cabinets.

Produce timed prints with separate densities or color settings for each scene of a production.

Set automatic timers, lens openings, and printer carriages to specified focus and exposure times and start exposure to duplicate originals, photographs, or negatives.

Splice broken or separated film and mount film on reels.

Apply paint, using airbrushes, pens, artists' brushes, cotton swabs, or gloved fingers to retouch or enhance negatives or photographs.

Retouch photographic negatives or original prints to correct defects.

Artists' brushes

Automatic photo printers

Barcode scanners

Cement splicers

Chemical stirrers

Color testing equipment

Contrast filters

Darkroom beakers

Darkroom densitometers

Darkroom hydrometers

Darkroom thermometers

Darkroom timers

Daylight splicers

Developing spirals

Digital cameras

Digital minilabs

Drum scanners

Drying cabinets

Film developing trays

Film pickers

Film plates

Film processing tongs

Film refrigerators

Film winders

Flatbed scanners

Hand mixers

Infrared goggles

Infrared scanners

Laser photo printers

Leader cards

Manual photo printers

Measuring cylinders

Mechanical air dryers

Minilab processors

Mounting presses

MultiMediaCard storage devices

Paper cutters

Personal computers

Photo drying squeegees

Photo printers

Photo retouching air brushes

Photo scissors

Photographic developing tanks

Photographic print enlargers

Power mixers

Roller transport film processors

Rotary drum processors

Secure digital (SD) cards

Sensitometers

Silver recovery systems

Solid ink printers

Tape splicers

Thermal dye sublimation printers

Ultrasonic cleaners

Ultrasonic film splicers

Universal serial bus USB flash drives

Water flow meters

Water recirculation pumps

Adobe Systems Adobe InDesign

Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop

Camera Bits Photo Mechanic

ExpressDigital Labtricity

HeliconSoft Helicon Focus

Microsoft Access

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Publisher

Microsoft Word

MongoDB

MySQL

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Photography Assistant

I really have not heard much discouragement, as I strive to surround myself with a positive support group of friends and family.

Coleman Haynes

Photography Assistant

Education

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My work combines:

My work combines:

Technology

Film

Problem Solving

Recommended Education

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Myself:

Coleman Haynes

Photography Assistant

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Technology

Film

Problem Solving

Recommended Education

My career is related to what I studied. I'd recommend the path I took:

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Myself:

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