Professional Experience
URBAN OUTFITTERS
2008-present
Post Production Manager / Home, Music & Tech
- Edit, Retouch & Archive all Home e-commerce imagery, focusing on consistent color tones, retouching surfaces & product color accuracy.
- Edit, Retouch & Archive all Music & Tech imagery, focusing on consistent color tones, product scale, & conveying relevant technical information.
- Image manager of Print & Vinyl Shop
- Pick the most effective lead image from a series of images provided by multiple Photographers & Stylists.
- Focus on image sequence, crop consistency & product assortment in order to give the website a clean, consistent overall look.
- Retouch all Home editorial images & assist in creating unique weekly Marking messages including photo compositions, color correcting, expanding surfaces to fit website banners & paid media assets.
- Matching product colors to fabric swatches. Manipulating images to compensate for broken samples & imperfections.
- Collaborate with the Music & Wall Art Buyers to source vendor imagery in pre-made templates for the Print & Vinyl Shops.
- Managing multiple drop-ship programs which enable the company to add new products to the website without a physical photo sample. Adds over 3000 new Vinyl and framed Artwork products to the website without the cost of obtaining & shooting physical samples.
- Daily website upkeep, including fixing broken images, changing lead images, updating old imagery, marking all products ready in a Merchandise Tracking System, providing hi-res imagery to various departments.
Men's Photo Editor
- Edited, Retouched & Archived all Men's e-commerce images.
- Attended a monthly Marketing / Buyer's meeting & took suggestions to edit the overall look of product pages & increase sales.
- Managed a team of Jr. Retouchers, organized image reviews & created a guidebook to educate others in the company & new employees.
Jr. Retoucher
- Retouched Women's, Men's & Home e-commerce images for Urbanoutfitters.com
- Helped facilitate a change in studio space & major website Art Direction change.
NIC DAMICO STUDIOS
2007-2008
Photo Assistant
- Assisted on set and in-studio for large Advertising Photo shoots.
- Assisted studio Retoucher for various clients including Sony, Pepsi & Everlast Athletics.
- Worked on a team of Photo Assistants to help in day to day studio operations.
MICHAEL SPAIN SMITH
http://www.michaelspainsmith.com/
2006-2007
Second Assistant
- Assisted on Photo shoots for various clients including the Stephen Starr Restaurant organization, Tropicana Casino, Virtua Health & the Philadelphia Marine Club.
- Retouched and Post Production support for various commercial projects.
- Performed administrative tasks including archiving digital files, studio upkeep & contacted clients.
FREELANCE
Michael Persico Photography - Various retouching projects for clients including Tullamore Dew Whiskey, Veg Restaurant, Philadelphia Magazine.
Mike Scott Whitson - Photo Assistant on various commercial and editorial projects. Retouching assistant creating clipping masks, skin smoothing & color correction.
Yo Darkroom - Assisted owner Ravid Butz in setting up a public darkroom space and fine art gallery. Taught basic darkroom techniques and assisted in opening events.
Stars and Stripes Event Photography - Traveled the East Coast shooting youth sports tournaments. Provided technical support to the sales team's mobile post production/printing system.
Technical Skills
SOFTWARE - Adobe Photoshop,Capture One, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Cloud, Monitor Calibration Software, Adobe Scene 7, Akami Asset Solutions, HTML knowledge
CAMERAS - Canon Mark III, Phase 1 & Hasselblad H2 Digital Back, Fuji XT1, Mamiya RZ67, Various Medium Format systems.
LIGHTING - Broncolor, Acute, Prophoto
Education
Art Institute of Philadelphia 2007, A.S. Photography
Received outstanding achievement award upon graduation.