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German: Auftragsarbeit

English translation: commissioned work







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German term or phrase:Auftragsarbeit
English translation:commissioned work
Entered by:Terence Ajbro
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German to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts)
German term or phrase: Auftragsarbeit
What do you call it when photographers are instructed by either a company or a newspaper to take pictures for advertising either a product or a service? What do you call the order to do the job or how do you generally call the kind of job they do? They do not decide on how to do the job but their customers do. They receive an order.
Frederike
commissioned work
Explanation:
Is what I think it is.
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Terence Ajbro
Denmark
Note from asker to answerer
i used your translation - thank u
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +3commissioned work
Terence Ajbro
4 +1Commission
Orla Ryan
4Contract work
Jeremy Amos


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
commissioned work

Explanation:
Is what I think it is.

Terence Ajbro
Denmark
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Note from asker to answerer
i used your translation - thank u

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Klaus Herrmann: I know that this term is used for music, so I'd guess it'll work for photography as well.
7 mins

agree Mimch
1 hr

agree davidgreen: yes, I'm actually a photographer trying to get commissions/commissioned work at the moment
2 hrs
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Commission

Explanation:
Commission on its own is OK too.

Orla Ryan
Ireland
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Saleh Chowdhury, Ph.D.
3 days22 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Contract work

Explanation:
Just an alternative suggestion - my instinct would be that commissions are more in the fine arts (photography being included in this field or not, depending on exactly what sort of photography it is). What we as freelance translators do, for example, is contract work, we do not take on commissions, but jobs or contracts.

Jeremy Amos
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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