Fresher photographer resume example
Harpreet Kaur · Assistant Wedding Photographer · Mohali, Punjab. A sample person — replace every detail with your own.
Professional summary
Photography diploma holder with a season of assisting on Punjabi weddings and pre-wedding shoots across the Tricity area. Handles lighting setup, second-angle coverage and first-pass culling in Lightroom. Calm with families and large crowds, careful with backups, and keen to join a wedding studio as an assistant or second shooter.
Skills
- Candid photography
- Off-camera flash
- Second shooting
- Adobe Lightroom
- Photo culling
- Backup workflow
- Client coordination
Experience
- Assisted at twenty-two weddings, managing lights, spare batteries and cards while covering family portraits as second shooter.
- Culled and colour-corrected first previews of about five hundred images per event, delivering sneak peeks to couples within two days.
- Maintained a dual-drive backup routine after every shoot, with zero lost files across the season.
Education
Projects
- Hands of Phulkari — photo series on embroidery artisans, shown at a college exhibition and shared by a local craft cooperative
- Monsoon Streets — personal street project shot on a prime lens, used to practise low-light candid work
Languages
Punjabi · Hindi · English
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Experienced photographer resume example
Vikram Rathore · Commercial Product Photographer · Jaipur, Rajasthan. A sample person — replace every detail with your own.
Professional summary
Commercial photographer with eight years shooting products, catalogues and campaigns for handicraft, jewellery and home-décor brands selling online and abroad. Runs a small studio team, plans shot lists from brand briefs and delivers marketplace-ready images on schedule. Skilled in tabletop lighting, high-end retouching and colour accuracy across print and screen.
Skills
- Product photography
- Jewellery lighting
- Catalogue shoots
- Capture One
- Photoshop retouching
- Colour management
- Shot-list planning
- Studio management
- Drone photography
Experience
- Shoot and deliver about three thousand catalogue images each quarter for export houses, with consistent white backgrounds meeting marketplace specs.
- Built a jewellery lighting setup that reduced retouching time per ring from forty minutes to around fifteen.
- Lead a team of one assistant, one retoucher and a stylist, planning shot lists and schedules from each client brief.
- Photographed a festive campaign for a home-décor label that ran across print catalogues, social ads and a trade-fair booth.
- Photographed products for over two hundred artisan sellers, improving image consistency across category pages.
- Wrote a simple photography guide for sellers shooting at home, cutting listing rejections for poor images.
- Calibrated monitors and set colour profiles so textiles looked the same on screen as on delivery.
- Planned weekly shoot schedules for new seller batches, clearing a backlog of unphotographed listings within two months.
Education
Certifications and registrations
- Remote Pilot Certificate from a DGCA-authorised training organisation
Projects
- Blue Pottery Archive — documented forty traditional designs for a craft trust’s digital catalogue
Languages
Hindi · English · Rajasthani
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Why these resumes work
- Harpreet’s resume turns assistant work into trust signals, such as zero lost files and two-day sneak peeks, which lead photographers value above creative claims.
- Vikram names the exact niche, jewellery and handicraft catalogues, so export houses and marketplace sellers recognise him as a specialist rather than an all-rounder.
- The retouching time cut from forty to fifteen minutes per ring shows business sense, because clients pay for turnaround as much as for image quality.
- Both resumes list software and lighting skills that appear again inside bullets, and personal projects add depth without padding the experience section.
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