Photography and Cinematography Expert

micro1; United States; Remote; USD 76,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train models and agents. We provide frontiers evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, along with contextual evaluations to monitor AI agents in enterprise settings.

Role: Photography and Cinematography Expert (Contractor). Location: Remote, worldwide. You will review briefs, assess photo/video work, and explain your decisions in writing to ensure the brief is met with high-quality results.

Qualifications

• Professional work shooting photo or video for clients or brands.
• Ability to review briefs, assess quality and brief match.
• Clear written explanations of decisions.

Responsibilities

• Review photo and video work and judge quality and brief match.
• Explain decisions in writing for reviewers.
• Check exposure, focus, color, framing, and camera movement.

Skills

Attention to detail

Written English

Photography/Videography experience

Client-facing communication

Tools

Lightroom

Adobe Photoshop

DaVinci Resolve

Premiere Pro

Job description

Pay: $50 - $105/hour

Required Skills
Briefs
Shoot Days
Post-production
Lightroom
Adobe Photoshop
Attention to detail
About micro1
micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.

Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data. Our research spans high-value, specialized domains (legal, medical, finance, coding, etc.), where expert-level data is the hardest to produce and most valuable for advanced model performance. Our pipeline performance system ensures both quality and velocity.

Role Title: Photography and Cinematography Expert

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

Opportunity Snapshot

Pay: $55 to $100 per hour

Location: Fully remote, worldwide

You’ll need: Professional experience shooting photo or video for clients, productions, publications or brands

Your tasks: Review photo and video work and briefs, judge technical quality, composition and brief match, and explain your decisions in writing

You’ll review photo and video work and judge it: what works, what doesn’t, and why. This is a good fit if you work as a photographer, cinematographer, director of photography or camera operator and make decisions about light, framing, camera settings and final delivery. You need professional experience shooting for clients, productions or publications, and clear written English.

Scope of Work
Look at photos or video clips and judge which one is stronger for a given brief and audience.
Check exposure, focus, color, framing, lens choice and camera movement.
Flag technical problems that would show up later (noise, flicker, clipped highlights, wrong frame rate or format).
Check that the work fits the brief and the intended use (print, web, social, broadcast, film).
Write a short explanation for each decision so a reviewer can follow your reasoning.

What we’re looking for
Professional work as a photographer, cinematographer, director of photography, camera operator or video producer.
Experience with real jobs: briefs, shoot days, post-production and delivery to a client.
Daily use of professional cameras and editing or grading tools such as Lightroom, Photoshop, DaVinci Resolve or Premiere.
Comfort explaining why one shot works and another doesn’t.
Clear written English.

How the selection process works
with your resume and a short profile.
Complete the curation interview.
It is a short conversation about your experience with exhibitions, collections and attribution. You don’t need to prepare, look at anything or write anything. Finishing it is what moves your application forward.
Review.
We check your experience against what the project needs.
Onboarding and first task.
If selected, you get the guidelines and start with an initial task, which is reviewed before you continue.
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