Alene Pierro Email & Phone Number

Hopewell Junction, Ny, Us

Hopewell Junction, New York, United States

Alene is a trained photographer and expert retoucher with more than 15 years of industry experience in production, styling, photography and post-production, including post-production management. She is a subject matter expert in a kind, flexible, down to earth and dependable package.Both on location or at her home studio in the Hudson Valley NY, Alene creates compelling, high quality images by bringing together pre-production, styling, photography & post-production services into one.She offers studio photography including still lives, furniture, products, food, craft beverage, cosmetics and supplements. She provides Portrait or Lifestyle photography on location or in studio, as well as, branding photography for businesses or personal brands like musicians, artists and self employed professionals. Alene produces photographs for personal or product based brands on location including annual travel trips where she creates content for 2-3 brands per trip inclusive of pre-production, photography and post-production. As an experienced retoucher for web, inkjet printing and commercial publications, Alene provides retouching and post production management services including compositing, color correction, stop motion GIFs, digital asset management and post production workflow consulting. She is an expert in Photoshop, CaptureOne, Bridge, Lightroom, HeliconFocus, HeliconRemote and more.Alene has been contracted to consult on commercial photography studio construction, e-commerce photography, post-production workflow development on a company wide scale and to train junior photographers and retouchers. She also has work experience in wedding and event photography, photography assisting across many industries, product development, supply chains, fine art resale, fine art archive management, digital asset management, B2C sales, B2B sales, Photography sales, gallery management, e-commerce, copywriting, social media and marketing.

New York, New York, United States

As a freelance retoucher, I manage post-production projects from start to finish and serve as an expert on brand guidelines throughout in-house staff changes while managing tight post-production publication deadlines. I manage digital and print projects including complex compositing and DAM. I collaborate with the Studio Manager, Graphic Designers and Creative Director.

New York, New York, United States

Retouching luxury product, jewelry, handbags, still life, beauty, on-figure and more for commercial print, fine art printing and digital e-com use.Integrating feedback through multiple rounds of revisions from the client's in-house team. Color correction/color matching and compositing. Setting up folders and files in line with agency workflow.Exporting RAW images from CaptureOne sessions. Teaching more junior retouchers company practices. Assembling image composites and editing with non-destructive practices.Managing strict retouching timelines. Hand print proofing images to inspect for print quality. Pre-press file formatting and export. Printing commercial and fine art quality prints including maintaining inkjet Epson printers, quality control, packing and shipping.

Photographing furniture, toys and children for diverse outlets across multiple brands.Serving as Photo Editor.Producing product, environmental and lifestyle photography with Creative Director.Styling for photography.Management of retouching work and budget across an international team of freelancers including two junior photographers and two junior retouchers.Remotely training junior photographers and retouchers on international teams to advance skills. International travel to represent the company at industry trade shows. Remotely designed building plans for large scale furniture photography studio in Vietnam.Working collaboratively across departments and with customers or distributors.Managing photography studio and equipment.Serving as digital tech and assistant to contract photographers.

Photographing portraits of newborn babies and families in the hospital on the first day of life. Independently marketing the service to each new mother. Quickly editing and retouching photographs to immediately share with clients. Selling photographic packages in person.

Rochester, New York

Maintaining digital asset archive.Creative direction and production of commercial photography work and fine art books. Communicating with printers and manufacturers. Marketing, branding, business planning. Managing web presence. Guiding photographic work, producing and curating exhibitions of visiting artists.Managing studio and gallery spaces.Grantwriting.Communicating with dealers, galleries, stockists and collectors.Researching photographic subjects.Producing events.