Dan Mayers Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny

PHOTOGRAPHERTwenty plus years experience with still-life, interior and lifestyle photography. Resourceful and highly skilled with digital photography for print and online content. Strengths include concept development, set design, lighting and retouching. Experienced both on location assignments and in studio settings. Conceives photographs to illustrate visual story and brand strengths. Embraces creative collaboration and team development. Diverse experience in editorial magazine, book publishing, e commerce as well as commercial photography assignments. Expert at assessing needs and customizing portrait sessions to meet client needs.EXPERIENCECommercial Photographer 1996 - present• Provide full service photography for location and studio assignments for diverse commercial clients as well as editorial photography for design and home decorating publications. Create home interior stories and portraits for editorial clients. Acted as visual consultant on development and launch of two magazines Cottage Style and Romantic Living. • Consistently create content to illustrate story lines while showcasing the designers creativity. • Advertising assignments for a variety of clients with a focus on illustrating product strengths by embracing brand heritage. layout and design. • Perform all photography to create the content of several book decorating book titles.• Assess initial and changing client needs/requests and provide tailored sessions to produce optimum results. Skilled at retouching.• Create relevant Social Media content for brand promotions.TECHNICAL SKILLSPhase One digital, Capture One, Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Bridge, Lightroom, Image Editing, Video, Video capture, Video editing, Final Cut Pro X, Video sound, Microsoft office suite, word, excel, Nikon, Canon and Hasselblad, DJI Drone, Social Media, Instagram, Tik Tok. studio lighting, Profoto

New York, New York, United States

Freelance Photography Studio throughout my career I have managed and grown business operations as freelance photographer targeting editorial, catalog, corporate and E-commerce businesses. Responsible for production, lighting, photography using both digital cameras and video systems, post production and retouching. Specializing in E-Commerce, Editorial and Advertising photography. Experienced in website development and social media. During the pandemic I partnered with stylists and created a working studio the outsource e-commerce work from studios who needed to keep staffing levels reduced. The studio has secured a steady client base and we implemented effective controls to keep studio free of Covid transmission. We currently are photographing still life, clothing pin-ups and video for out clients. I am responsible for set design, lighting and equipment maintenance. Additionally I have trained our stylists in the operation of the software package Capture One so they can shoot independently.

Secaucus, Nj

Manage day to day operation of Bare Necessities studio. Daily oversight of set design and consistency.Maintain equipment and supply levels for ongoing projects. tracking and reporting expenses while developing ongoing budgets. Assisted in the development of new set with lighting to accompany the new look for company rebrand. Provided support while driving changes necessary to develop and implement Rebrand of companies new web site. Manage studio as well as retouching team.

New York, Ny

Photographing products ranging through all categories for the PDP images and web sales. Special assignments working directly with the creative director included creating landing page assets as well as a variety of email and social media images including stills and GIF's. My range of experience places me in a unique position of photographing on a weekly basis a large variety of image categories. I train and manage stylists working on set to help with their use and understanding of Capture one and our workstations. Designed, managed and maintained specialty sets for on-figure fashion, clothing pin ups and still life to improve both efficiency and quality in the studio. designed and created a home set for photographing our home category tab materials in a natural room setting.

New York, Ny

New York City

• Developed and photographed brand specific content for landing page using editorial and creative solutions to drive customers interest and convert to sales pages. • Developed processes to streamline production and increase daily throughput within product photography. Integrated photography with graphic design requirements while implementing seasonal sale plans for overall consistent presentation.• Designed and created sets in studio for a variety of diverse looks. Skilled at hands-on set building and integrating special effects to maximize materials and set capabilities and to meet layout design and needs. • Managed files for consistency, system calibration and network data storage.

State College Pa

Oversaw production on several Government contracts. All projects were delivered on time or ahead of schedule with cost saving production improvements and hands on problem solving. Became certified and wave soldering technology. Co-designed machine specific jigs for soldering machine on site. Developed mil std. hardware guide to improve accuracy of parts specification during drafting and design updates.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: Minor in PhotographyBeyond obtaining a degree in Industrial Engineering, I minored in Photography gaining.

Bachelor Of Science Industrial Engineering, Computer Aided Manufacturing

Activities and Societies: Modern Rock Appreciation Society (Punk Club) Scuba Club