Do you know how to load a roll of film?
Work a light meter?
Edit slides on a light table?
Scan film?
Color correct scans?
Track a photo inventory?
Submit photos to clients?
Work with a stock agency?
Make prints?
Pack a camera bag?
Ship equipment?
Set up lights?
Scout a location?
Drive on the left side of the road?
Order food in French?
Clean a digital sensor?
Work in Photoshop?
Create a workflow?
Edit a Portfolio?
Build a creative brief?
Create a composite image?
Shoot from a helicopter?
Work 30 days straight (with a hangover)?
Use a prototype camera?
Shoot and edit video?
Manage a huge equipment inventory?
Develop filters for a photo app?
Layout a book?
Film a TV show?
Write a magazine article?
Build a community?
Hang an art installation?
Survive in Manhattan?
Film a Live broadcast?
Write a blog post?
I didn’t. When I started working in photography as Chase’s assistant, I was a blank slate. I like to think I still am. Many of these skills have become obsolete. Others did not even exist when I started. Knowing how to do everything is not the goal. Knowing that you can learn is everything.
Great post Scott. Yes some are obsolete but still good to know ow to perform them.
Dudes you are ROCKSTARS. Chase is the frontman and you Scott are the badass guitar player. Seriously, you have the respect and admiration of many including myself.
We all have to learn at some stage, you wanna be lucky to have a good teacher!!
Right, of course!
But only if there is the possibility. Here in Italy isn’t so simple…
Andrea
Hi Scott – great post.
My question is about the images that head up this post – are you using your iPad as a photo editing tablet?
If so how have you hooked it up to your computer (Airdisplay?) and does it work well with aperture / photoshop?
thanks heaps!
Rotter, good question. That’s actually a Wacom tablet. I use it for the more complex retouching projects in Photoshop.