Photography career?

I am sure I have seen story progression pop ups of townies getting promotions in Photography so perhaps it is available at the Town Hall with Ambitions. I have only been seeing these pop ups recently and Ambitions is one of my more recent additions.

You go to city hall and register as self employed.which is a photographer.Then you make money during the way with pictures taken each certain milestone amount you advance in the career like onelevel is called dark room destroyer and another lens lover.Some have cash bonuses and there are tons of skill challenges too these are hard.Some really well deserved pats on the back for completing collections.And is fun to find the goals they want like catching people out dumpster diving or sims fighting a fire some are so crazy hard to spot out and about.

One you would think was easy took me forever I had simple task of catching a limo on the road but none ever passed by me.Then when was not ready or zooming out on the map 2 blocks over a limo going by. :s But photography is fun you will be like a paparazzi

There seem to be conflicting reports on this career and its showing up as a selection, but yes it is there as a self-employed option and a mod is not needed. For most of us I believe both WA and Ambitions are required, the first for the fully fleshed out version of the skill and the second for the career. One skill level in photography should be required to register for the self-employed career at City Hall.
https://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/skills/worldadventures/photography/

Thank you! My newly moved in Sim spouse has the photographer's eye trait so I was hoping there would be a career he could get into like that. He apparently has a medical degree but I didn't want him to be a doctor. I had no idea he was already an adult when my young adult married him so he's 17 Sim years older than her. Not sure he'll have enough time to reach the top of that photography career but it might give me a good trial run for the next Sim who comes along who wants to do that for a living. Also, thanks for the tip igazor on needing a skill level to be able to register for self employment in that field. I had already checked for that and it wasn't listed as a career.

"CravenLestat;c-16610985" wrote:
One you would think was easy took me forever I had simple task of catching a limo on the road but none ever passed by me.Then when was not ready or zooming out on the map 2 blocks over a limo going by. :s

As luck (misfortune) would have it, one of the zombies that stop by the house once a month leaves in a limo. Maybe that will work for that particular task!

My favorite difficult task on the skill challenges that I keep coming across is when a teen photographer hobbyist needs to take a photo of their own grandchild. Yeah my game may be pretty unusual by many standards, but not by that much! :/

I just had the lawn gnome photobomb a picture taken in the city park. Too funny! I think my Sim will enjoy this career. He does want to buy a camera so that's my next thing to do.

EDIT: where do I buy a camera? :/

Just got this today when playing today....Gabriel was level 3 in photography when he got this wish. No mods...

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1826/43380854962_f508492129_z.jpg

(somebody correct me if I'm wrong) You can travel to Egypt to buy a World Adventures camera or use the cheat testingcheatsenabled true + buydebug then in buy mode, you should see a question mark catalog. That opens buydebug > filter World Adventures pack in the Misc. Objects section.

@Simplyjen That's exactly right.

Since @Rhiannon58 is kind of new to Sims 3, just in case needed, the exact way to get into the buydebug catalog is:

Open cheat window with Ctrl/Shift/C
Type in 'testingCheatsEnabled true'
Hit Enter

Open cheat window again
Type in 'buydebug on'
Hit Enter again.

You only see the ? button for buydebug in one display for buy mode, the category display, as opposed to the room display or the collections. Not in game so I can't see exactly what it's called, but it's the display where you see groupings by things like appliances, comfort, surfaces.