Arts & Culture

• Study requirements of a particular assignment and decide on type of camera, film, lighting and background accessories to be used
• Determine picture composition, make technical adjustments to equipment and photograph subject
• May operate scanners to transfer photographic images to computers
• May operate computers to manipulate photographic images
• May adapt existing photographic images and create new digitized images to be included in multimedia/new media products
• May use delicate instruments, such as optical microscopes attached to cameras
• May process exposed film
• May use airbrush, computer or other techniques to retouch negatives
• Medical photographers may work closely with medical illustrators

Photographers may specialize in areas such as portrait photography, commercial photography, scientific photography, forensic photography, medical photography, digitized photography, multimedia photography or photojournalism.

• Painters create drawings, paintings and other artwork using oils, pastels, watercolours, charcoal, ink and other media.
• Sculptors create sculptures, statues and other three-dimensional artwork by shaping, carving and working with materials such as clay, ice, paper, stone, wood or metal.
• Art instructors and teachers teach students the techniques and methods of drawing, painting, sculpting and other forms of artistic expression

• Carvers learn to use hand tools and woodworking machines to produce carvings from wood, stone and other materials and to carve ornamental designs into wooden furniture and other objects.
• Glass blowers help design and create glass objects using blowpipes and artisan's hand tools and equipment.
• Metal arts workers help design metal jewellery, utensils, implements, wall hangings and other objects and create them from gold, silver, copper, pewter and other metals.
• Potters learn to design ornamental and ceramic functional earthenware pieces and create them using clay, moulds, potter's wheels and other equipment, glazing materials and kilns.
• Stained glass artists help design stained glass windows, lampshades and other objects and cut, paint, fire and assemble pieces of stained glass to create such products.
• Instrument makers become familiar with how to construct instruments applying their knowledge of wood, ebonite, metal properties and other materials and instrument design using hand and power tools.
• Weavers use hands or loom to interlace strips of flexible material such as wool, cotton, silk, grasses, bark and rawhide to make baskets, wreaths, wall hangings, clothing, rugs, blankets and other objects.
• Craft instructors learn how to prepare craft making lessons, gather the required working materials and demonstrate and teach craft making techniques.
• Artistic floral arrangers design bouquets, corsages, sprays, wreaths and other floral arrangements and select natural and artificial flowers, foliage and decorative accessories to create arrangements or other floral items to suit customers' requirements.

• Become familiar with procedures and policies in newspaper and publishing firms, in film, theatre, record and video production companies, and in radio and television stations
• Help plan and maintain production schedules for publications, films, broadcasts, and theatre, record and video productions
• Learn to prepare and control budgets
• Observe consultations with government regulatory agencies to evaluate and review programs and policies to ensure conformance to regulations
• Familiarize self with steps involved in the development of articles, books, films, broadcasts, musical recordings and theatre productions, and liaise with authors, composers, producers and directors