Senior Photographer

Position: Senior Photographer

Type: Contractor

Compensation: $55–$105/hour

Location: Remote

About the Opportunity

We are seeking experienced professional photographers to contribute high-quality visual content and photography expertise to projects focused on improving AI systems' ability to interpret, describe, and understand images.

In this role, you will leverage your photography skills, visual judgment, and image-editing expertise to analyze visual content, create accurate image descriptions, develop structured metadata, and deliver well-organized image data. Your work will help improve AI systems' understanding of visual details, composition, context, and photographic quality.

Prior AI experience is not required. Professional photography expertise, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate visual information accurately are essential.

Key Responsibilities

- Produce and assess visual content: Capture, select, and evaluate high-quality photographs across relevant genres, including portraits, landscapes, commercial, and editorial photography.
- Analyze image composition: Examine lighting, framing, color, perspective, subject placement, and other visual elements to identify defining characteristics.
- Create detailed image descriptions: Write precise captions and contextual descriptions that accurately represent subjects, scenes, objects, and visual relationships.
- Develop image labels and metadata: Assign descriptive tags, categories, and relevant metadata to support consistent image classification and AI training.
- Edit and enhance photographs: Use Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom,



and related tools to refine image quality while maintaining visual accuracy and consistency.
- Evaluate visual quality: Review photographs for clarity, composition, technical quality, relevance, and adherence to project-specific standards.
- Organize image datasets: Structure files, maintain accurate naming conventions, verify metadata, and prepare organized submissions according to project guidelines.
- Validate deliverables: Check image descriptions, labels, file formats, and associated data for accuracy, completeness, and consistency before submission.
- Collaborate with project coordinators: Clarify requirements, communicate progress, resolve content-related issues, and align deliverables with project objectives.
- Incorporate feedback: Revise images, annotations, and metadata based on reviewer feedback and evolving quality requirements.
- Manage project deadlines: Prioritize assignments, track deliverables, and consistently submit high-quality work within established timelines.
- Document workflows: Maintain transparent records of image processing, categorization decisions, and relevant submission details to support quality control.

Required Qualifications

- At least five years of professional photography experience.
- Demonstrated expertise in one or more photography disciplines, such as portrait, landscape, commercial, or editorial photography.




- Proficiency with professional camera equipment and image-editing software, particularly Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Lightroom.
- Strong visual analysis skills and the ability to identify subtle details, compositional elements, and contextual relationships.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for producing accurate descriptions and coordinating project requirements.
- Strong organizational skills and experience managing digital image files and structured data submissions.
- Ability to follow detailed instructions, incorporate feedback, and meet deadlines consistently.
- Ability to work independently in a remote environment while maintaining high-quality standards.

Preferred Qualifications

- A strong photography portfolio demonstrating technical proficiency, creative judgment, and consistent image quality.
- Experience creating image descriptions, captions, tags, or metadata for digital asset libraries or visual datasets.
- Familiarity with image annotation, content categorization, or visual data quality assurance.
- Experience maintaining structured image archives and organizing large volumes of digital photographs.
- Experience collaborating remotely with creative teams, editors, clients, or project coordinators.
- Strong attention to detail when reviewing visual content and validating supporting documentation.

Compensation & Engagement

- Compensation: $55–$105 per hour.
- Engagement Type: Contractor.
- Work Arrangement: Fully remote.
- Project Focus: Professional photography, visual content analysis, image labeling, metadata creation, and AI training data quality.

📌 Photographer (Remote | ) (Australia)
🏢 Synthires
📍 Australia