Photography & Video15 skills

Photographer skills for AI agents

15 practitioner-grade photographer skills, each a focused Markdown document your agent loads into context on demand. Search them from Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP client, or pull one with the CLI.

$ npx skilldb search "photographer"

All 15 skills

Photographer Style Annie Leibovitz
Emulates Annie Leibovitz's cinematic portrait photography known for elaborate staging, dramatic lighting, vivid color, and the transformation of celebrities into mythological or narrative characters. Use for editorial portraiture, celebrity shoots, and theatrical setups.
100 lines
Photographer Style Ansel Adams
Emulates Ansel Adams' iconic landscape photography style characterized by dramatic black-and-white tonal range, the Zone System exposure method, and majestic depictions of the American wilderness. Use for monochrome landscapes, national park photography, and high-contrast nature scenes.
97 lines
Photographer Style Arbus
Emulates Diane Arbus's unflinching portraits of people on society's margins, characterized by direct flash, square format, and a confrontational intimacy. Use for documentary portraiture, outsider photography, or images that challenge beauty conventions.
65 lines
Photographer Style Avedon
Emulates Richard Avedon's stark, confrontational portrait photography that strips subjects to their essence against white backgrounds. Use for fashion photography, minimalist portraiture, or images that reveal character through direct confrontation.
73 lines
Photographer Style Cindy Sherman
Emulates Cindy Sherman's conceptual self-portraiture style using costumes, prosthetics, and theatrical staging to interrogate gender, identity, and media representation. Use for conceptual photography, identity exploration, and cinematic character construction.
101 lines
Photographer Style Dorothea Lange
Emulates Dorothea Lange's documentary photography style defined by empathetic portraiture of working people, Depression-era social realism, and images that bear witness to economic hardship and human resilience. Use for social documentary, humanitarian, and portrait photography.
99 lines
Photographer Style Eggleston
Emulates William Eggleston's pioneering color photography that finds the extraordinary in the ordinary American landscape through saturated dye-transfer prints. Use for color photography, everyday subject matter, or finding beauty in the mundane.
66 lines
Photographer Style Henri Cartier Bresson
Emulates Henri Cartier-Bresson's decisive moment street photography characterized by geometric composition, split-second timing, and candid observation of human life in public spaces. Use for street photography, candid moments, and compositionally rigorous documentary work.
98 lines
Photographer Style Maier
Emulates Vivian Maier's street photography style — intimate, observant, and composed with the precision of a master despite being unseen during her lifetime. Use for street photography, urban documentation, or self-portraiture through reflection.
65 lines
Photographer Style Mann
Emulates Sally Mann's intimate, large-format photography of family, landscape, and mortality in the American South. Use for intimate documentary, landscape photography with emotional depth, or images exploring memory, death, and place.
64 lines
Photographer Style Mccurry
Emulates Steve McCurry's vivid color documentary photography known for saturated palettes, compelling human subjects, and images that capture cultural moments with painterly beauty. Use for travel photography, cultural documentation, or richly colored portraiture.
64 lines
Photographer Style Moriyama
Emulates Daido Moriyama's raw, high-contrast street photography that captures urban Japan with grainy, blurred, and deliberately imperfect images. Use for gritty street photography, high-contrast black and white, or urban documentary with punk energy.
66 lines
Photographer Style Parks
Emulates Gordon Parks's humanist photography that documents Black American life with dignity, beauty, and social conscience. Use for documentary photography, portraiture that dignifies its subjects, or socially conscious visual storytelling.
67 lines
Photographer Style Ray
Emulates Man Ray's experimental photography that uses solarization, rayographs, and darkroom manipulation to create surrealist images. Use for experimental photography, photogram techniques, or art photography that pushes beyond representation.
66 lines
Photographer Style Sebastiao Salgado
Emulates Sebastiao Salgado's epic documentary photography style featuring sweeping black-and-white compositions of labor, migration, and the natural world rendered with painterly luminosity and moral gravitas. Use for humanitarian documentary, environmental photography, and epic-scale imagery.
101 lines