A photographing system of the present invention includes a light emitting apparatus which emits visible light including arbitrary information and a photographing apparatus which has a plurality of photographing functions, in which the light emitting apparatus includes a light emitting section which emits visible light including command information respectively corresponding to the plurality of photographing functions of the photographing apparatus, and the photographing apparatus includes a photographing section, a visible light information acquisition section which receives the visible light emitted by the light emitting section by the photographing section, and acquires the command information included in the visible light, and a photographing instruction section which instructs to perform at least one of the plurality of photographing functions based on the command information acquired by the visible light information acquisition section.