Photographer

An amateur photographer takes snapshots for pleasure to remember events, places or friends with no intention of selling the images to others.

[3] A professional photographer may be an employee, for example of a newspaper, or may contract to cover a particular planned event such as a wedding or graduation, or to illustrate an advertisement.

Photographers who produce moving rather than still pictures are often called cinematographers, videographers or camera operators, depending on the commercial context.

These online stock photography catalogues have drastically changed the landscape of the industry, presenting both opportunities and challenges for photographers seeking to earn a living through their craft.

Commercial photographers may also promote their work to advertising and editorial art buyers via printed and online marketing vehicles.

[4] Those interested in legal precision may explicitly release them to the public domain or under a free content license.

Some sites, including Wikimedia Commons, are punctilious about licenses and only accept pictures with clear information about permitted use.

2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships photographer stand.
A photographer with his daguerrotypes , 1845
An English photographer in his studio, in the 1850s.
Epifania de Guadalupe Vallejo , the earliest known photographer active in what is the present-day West Coast of the United States . [ 2 ]
A U.S. Navy photographer in March 2004.