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Photography skill
aaronrulz
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I have never gotten into the whole photography thing in Sims 4. Can someone share their experience? Did you have a Sim be a photographer for their career? Did they make money? What did you take pictures of? Any and all ideas and advice I will take. Thanks!
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This is a link to a guide to the photography skill
http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/skills/gettowork/photography/
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
Thanks but I am interested in game play and how other Simmers played it within the game
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It took me a while to start using it but it serves a few different purposes in my game now. One Sim was an architect in TS3, and in TS4 he's a teen who is interested in design and engineering. So I've been sending him around town photographing interesting statues and buildings. I blogged it, it's quite a long post but the photos he took are towards the bottom of the page: https://simsinthewoods.wordpress.com/2016/11/17/the-thompson-family-snap-happy/) He's a teen, so he hasn't been selling them or anything. He just keeps the good/interesting ones to decorate his room and provide inspiration for his own designs.
The other boy in the blog sees the beauty around him and likes to capture that on film. So it might be a sunset, or a friend who looks good that day, or just an object in a nice setting. I see him becoming a bit of an artist, or maybe a fashion photographer, in the future. He'll probably get his own gallery at some point.
My movie producer uses the photo studio to take casting photos of his actors and actresses. I haven't written out the blog for their week yet.
I'm building a publishing house for a fashion/lifestyle/beauty magazine, and they'll use the cameras for photo shoots.
Another Sim was a photo-journalist in a previous series. I don't know if I'll go the same route again, which was kind of put her in extreme environments. But she might do sports photography instead this time.
A police officer uses the camera to take pictures of evidence, and her husband is an investigative journalist who does the same (that's the same family as the architect above).
I guess I use the photography feature a lot for a variety of small reasons. It's useful to me as a kind of versatile tool. I would say though that it would be more useful if you could act as the model, as well as the photographer. So you could send your active family to have a family photo taken, rather than acting as the photographer and doing gymnastics to get the right Sims to your lot. Or I could send my rockstar to the fashion magazine for an interview and have him do a photoshoot while he's there. It should work from both perspectives.
Some of my Sims photo compilations:
And these are the type of pictures she sells:
I don't recall any of my sims being a photographer. As I have no idea which photos a sim in the social media career upload to social media, I can't answer the other questions.