Photographer expands Blender's default camera and lighting capabilities by introducing real-world physical properties and photometric units. The add-on provides controls for shutter speed, ISO, aperture, and white balancing, alongside post-processing effects such as lens distortion, bloom, and film grain. It is compatible with both the EEVEE and Cycles render engines.

The toolset features dedicated mixer interfaces for managing lights, emissive materials, and world environments from a centralized panel. Additional functionality includes a render queue manager, light gobos, IES profiles, optical vignetting, and autofocus modes. Users can also leverage automatic lens shift for architectural visualization, create camera position bookmarks, and link scene collections to specific cameras.