APA has developed a brand new state of the art Assistant search with 28 relevant, contemporary Assistant Skills (listed below).
As soon as our Assistant members update their Profiles, photographers from all over the country will be able to easily find qualified professional assistants for almost every kind of assignment.
1. APA Assistants: The sooner you login and complete your Pro Assistant Profile, the sooner you are more likely to get more work.
2. The higher up your member level, the more Assistant Skills you can select (and the more searchable specialties & portfolio images you are entitled to) -- plus the higher up in the search results you will appear.
Member Level Number of Specialties / Skills & Images
Leader 10
Pro 8
Associate 5
Supporter 3
Contributor 1
APA will be proactively promoting Hire An APA Pro Assistant to pro photographers across the country, so it's to your advantage that you take a few minutes now to complete your new Hire an APA Pro Assistant Profile.
3. If you would like to upgrade your member level, please send an email to membershiprep@apanational.org.
4. If you are a photographer and an assistant, you can now show up in either search results, by selecting Photographer for your primary profession, then on the same Edit Specialties page, you will see "Assistant" -- use that pull-down to select "I am also an Assistant" and select your assistant specialties / skill set. Click "Update Profile".
5. As soon as you have completed your Pro Assistant Profile, be sure to double check it at the Hire an APA Pro search, here. And remember to always keep it up to date!
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Here is the complete list of all APA Member Specialties
Assistant Skills
Digital Tech - Capture One
Digital Tech - Lightroom
Digital Tech - Motion
Digital Tech - Stills
Drones
DSLR - Sony
DSLR - Canon
DSLR - Nikon
Equipment Truck/Van
Gaffer - Hot Lights
Grip - Rigging
Medium Format
Medium Format - Hasselblad
Medium Format - Phase One
Multilingual
Outdoor Lighting
Passport
Strobes - Bowens
Strobes - Broncolor
Strobes - Norman
Strobes - Dynalite
Strobes - Elinchrom
Strobes - Hensel
Strobes - Impact
Strobes - Profoto
Travel
Video / Motion
Video / Motion - Audio