What would be your dream photo related job?

shepthedog

Bit of a random thread for a quiet saturday night..

If you could do any job in the photography related area what would it be and why??

I'll start the ball rolling, I would love to get into photojournalism and the why part would be mainly I find that whole area very interesting, being able to take a photo to portray a story, background, idea and the endless possibilities it may open up to you..

Lets hear yours..

rymus

I'd be the exclusive photographer of naked Angelina Jolie...

Or, if she wasn't hiring, I'd do FHM for a few months, get bored of that and then do weddings and various commercial stuff until I die a very rich man indeed...

Eirebear

Photojournalism for me too.
failing that Stills shooting on film sets etc.

shepthedog

haha I was going to put down glamour photography but said I'd try the serious answer first.. You really would know I had alot of time on my hands laid up with this broken leg to be thinking up threads such as this.. I am interested to hear the responces tho..

City-Exile

As much as I love sport, it's impossible to enjoy games while you're working, so I'll have to say a Wildlife Photographer/Photo Journalist for National Geographic.

oshead

I love to travel. Can't do so much since I became a Daddy. So i guess it's gotta be National Geographic photographer or a job like this http://www.travelstotheedge.com/.

Dave

Placebo

japenese fashion photographer, and i wouldnt use photoshop and be on every magazine, then id quit at my peak and frame this thread.

Fenster

Having worked at a fair few of them, I'd definately say that being a post-processor is a cushy job.

Mac Pro, 30" screen, air conditioned office, leather office chair.

That's the cushiest, probably the best (and it's definately my dream), running my own studio. I got offered a job managing one, but the pay offered was horrible.

RCNPhotos

I love doing music work. The main reason being I love going in being given three songs (say 15 minuite or so), and that's it. it's quick, too quick, but you have to get the shots in that frame. It's a buzz. I'd say it's like sports a bit(althugh I haven't really done sports so correct me if I'm wrong). But, my dream job....going on tour with a band, a big band, like the Stones or Metallica, floating around, getting those moments, candid stuff. But also having some published, to boast at the school reunion

ThOnda

You may think that I am stupid, but I would like to have a job in some association or organisation which supports arts and especially photography. I know that I am not good in it, but I would like to organise competitions, exhibitions, seminars and publications of amateur and beginning photographers.
Just to have the feeling - yes, I helped them a little and photography is still only a hobby and relaxation.

Eirebear

ThOnda wrote:

You may think that I am stupid, but I would like to have a job in some association or organisation which supports arts and especially photography. I know that I am not good in it, but I would like to organise competitions, exhibitions, seminars and publications of amateur and beginning photographers.
Just to have the feeling - yes, I helped them a little and photography is still only a hobby and relaxation.

I wouldnt say thats stupid at all...in fact i think thats quite smart.
A job which revolves around a passion, but not so much work so you can keep that passion on as a hobby...nice.

Borderfox

I would have to say music, for RCNPhotos reason. The pure buzz of it. I have a mate who manages David Grey so I must give him a ring to get a press pass. My public liability insurance should be sorted this week.

Calina

Truly? Staff photographer for one of the kite magazines or pro kite teams. What gets me about pro photography is not the taking of photographs - it's the admin side of things that gets me.

RCNPhotos - in sports, 15 minutes is untold luxury. I play with microseconds on occasion and the rugby and football guys only get one shot at the tree....Look at the rugby stuff from the other night and at the shot of the try in particular.

In general, I think the problem is very often we have a wishy washy idea of what dream jobs entail. Possibly I'm too realistic but I also know that if I ever manage to be staff photographer as listed above I have maybe 10 years of a career max doing it for various reasons plus I'll spend loads and loads of times in aeroplanes, an activity so stultifyingly boring that watching paint dry is positively exciting by comparison. I hate being boxed up. But them's the breaks.

Merrion

I'd quite like to be a foreign correspondent - like this guy - and get to know a country or a few countries over a period of years rather than just during the CNN mandated slot..

440Hz

Would have to be music related for me but im not sure my dream would be a gig photographer because then I miss all the good music. But it would be something music related, like artist promo shots or something, nice job with Q or Rolling Stone or something.

dirtydress

Fashion photography, I want to take high fashion editorial shots. I've always loved looking at those kinds of photo's there's something so beautiful and exotic about them. I've done loads of graphic design and a lot of my work always ends up coming back to those types of images as a source. That's the dream anyway!

Placebo

dirtydress wrote:

Fashion photography, I want to take high fashion editorial shots. I've always loved looking at those kinds of photo's there's something so beautiful and exotic about them. I've done loads of graphic design and a lot of my work always ends up coming back to those types of images as a source. That's the dream anyway!

are you me ?

City-Exile

Calina wrote:

RCNPhotos - in sports, 15 minutes is untold luxury. I play with microseconds on occasion and the rugby and football guys only get one shot at the tree....Look at the rugby stuff from the other night and at the shot of the try in particular.

Yeah, sports photography is very intense & there's such pressure to get results. People often express an interest in coming with me to cover games, but you have to concentrate so much on what you're doing, that you can't really spend time talking others through what you're doing.

You may think there's plenty action to capture, but to get a great shot, you need to have a clear view of the action. With other players running off the ball, that isn't always possible.

This is a big week for me, with 3 games in 6 days, so I'll get a real feel for what it's like to do it fulltime.

leinsterman

Actually I'm expecting a job offer from the photo industry tomorrow all going well ... possibly not the total dream job but I'll be working with Canon, Nikon, Olympus, SonyEricsson, Nokia, Samsung on their latest products ... so it should be pretty darn good

Though if I could dream a dream ... then Travel ... for someone like Lonely Planet or National Geographic ...

Fenster

Zascar wrote:

porn

I actually worked with a guy who did that for about two years..

Half of his anecdotes definitely fall into the NSFW category, but to relate the key points: The whole "omg, I'm photographing porno!" thing wears off really fast, most of your work isn't something you could put into a portfolio, and a lot of places will frown at any mention of shooting porn on your resume.

missingtime

The stuff that The Sunday Times magazine has in it from time to time, would like to do something along those lines.

City-Exile

I've never seen porn in the Sunday Times!
Great pictures from space yesterday though.
Astronomer Porn, perhaps.

Fenster

I think I gave everyone a crash course in astro-photography at Charleville. It mostly involves standing around freezing your ass off.

Post-processing is again the key thing here, as absolutely every single picture released by NASA has been very heavily processed. They have to go by a set of guidelines to produce an image what would match "as-is" what the human eye would see, but reconstructing pictures from space probes to produce something like this is Photshopping at it's finest.

Anyone else need a dream job shot down?

helios

Lonely Planet... I think that'd be the way to go

Eirebear

Fenster wrote:

I think I gave everyone a crash course in astro-photography at Charleville. It mostly involves standing around freezing your ass off.

Post-processing is again the key thing here, as absolutely every single picture released by NASA has been very heavily processed. They have to go by a set of guidelines to produce an image what would match "as-is" what the human eye would see, but reconstructing pictures from space probes to produce something like this is Photshopping at it's finest.

Anyone else need a dream job shot down?

Nothing like the bitter photographer suffering for his art eh?

City-Exile

helios wrote:

Lonely Planet... I think that'd be the way to go

Working for the BBC? You'd end up like Terry Wogan or Craig Doyle.

Fenster

I wouldn't so much say bitter as I've been there and I have an idea of the realities. I still say post-processing is about as cushy as it gets.

elven

Mmm, sitting doing photoshop all day sounds like fun to me

I must admit, I wouldn't really like assignment based work. I'd rather shoot for myself and sell prints, or something. We did say dream job, didn't we...?

melekalikimaka

livingin jamica documenting the reggee music scene until the day i die, or in house photographer for san diego houseofblues

GristlyEnd

Winning the euromillions, leave work, buy some glass and head all over the world taking wildlife shots.

Hugh_C

Being apprenticed to Helena Christensen for a few weeks wouldn't be half bad!

Then basically get paid a huge amount to shoot my own stuff, that'd be ideal.

hc