Professional Summary

Senior Staff Photographer offering expertise in cultural arts, visual arts, project management, and digital photography. Delivering outstanding skills in still life, portrait, event, landscape, and studio photography. Great at collaborating with decision-makers at all organizational levels. Eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organization and communication skills. Highly skilled in photography software, graphic and computer skills. Superb portfolio in both digital and studio photography.

Collaborated and provided photography for all departments. Ex: Physical Sciences, Exhibitions,
Anthropology, Education, Invertebrate Zoology, Paleontology, Vertebrate Zoology, Communications,
Biodiversity and operation and planning
*Photographed /Portraiture of Presidents & Trustees, CEOs, Governmental Politicians, AMNH Special
Events and Galas
*Photographed high-quality images for both print and internet distribution, including worldwide publications
*Assisted The Director of Photography of AMNH In Off Location and Travel of location assignments for AMNH Special Tours and Traveling exhibitions. Traveled off location independently on AMNH assignments in USA & Canada
*Edited, toned, captioned, and uploaded photographs for news publications.
*Performed advanced computer processing of images for assignments.
*Traveled with museum scientists and curators for off-site museum projects.
*Maintained productive professional relationships with many museum departments including all outside guests such as governmental officials, fortune 500 CEO's, museum board of trustees and cultural events. Worked independently, as well as a part of a team to produce project goals and deliverables.
*Planned and prepared for all on-location and studio shoots such as new construction, retail photography, antiquities, gems and * minerals, etc
Think creatively among the production of multiply projects and suggest alternate solutions possilbe solutions or needs of projects in house or on location
*Photographed e-commerce products in the AMNH photo studio on tabletops, retail mannequins and on figures (books, jewelry, apparels, and publication grade photography, color editing and color management, as well as computational imaging, including still digital capture, museum artifacts) Data Asset Management Systems.
*Responsible for all Photoshop, Lightroom, Capture one and Visual Digital Imaging & advanced color management and manipulations.
*Managed 2-5 daily assignments
*	Expert knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom CC with advanced ability to evaluate and color corrections and density in digital images.
*	Portfolio digital asset management platforms.
*	Familiarity with The Museum System (TMS) collections information platform. Maintaining proper care of the studio, lighting and image equipment.

Senior Staff Photographer

Photographed explorers from around the world and their special guess
*Adjusted, modified and networked photos using digital and computer manipulative applications.
*Maintained productive professional relationships with event organizers and their venues. Worked as the Senior Photographer to complete a wide range of photographic assignments, from rushed portraits to macro/tabletop photography for scientific works to coverage of live events, including shoots and postproduction, and delivering finished photographs on tight deadlines, for digital or print.
*Performed advanced computer processing of images for assignments.
*Inspected proofs to verify quality of prints and need for adjusting and retouching and uploaded to websites.
*Provided candid/atmosphere photography
Special Events Photographer

Event Photographer

Accounting for all photographic equipment on daily shoots
*Loading medium format and panoramic cameras
*Responsible for quality control of film of the day
*Driving errands, equipment checks, rental pick-ups and drop-offs.

Assistant Photographer

Photographed rare antiques, precious jewelry, art and sports memorabilia for Sotheby's Website *Images were captured in digital format

Photographer

Digital imaging and photo retouching using Adobe Photoshop
*Scanning photo images and creating files for the internet

Staff Photographer

Assisting with photoshoot layouts including location assignments
*Processing and filing of black and white negatives
*Messenger duties, cleaning of studio and processing contact sheets, 8 X 10 - 20 x 24 enlargements.
*Worked with various mainstream clients in the photographic industry (People and Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Warner Communications, etc.)
Security Professional

Photography Assistant

Freelance

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