Joel F. Burton Email & Phone Number

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Work closely with Art directors and Director of photography to create and implement lighting for studio and location video assets.

Design, organize, and implement lighting for editorial, advertising, fashion, industrial and still life for photo, video, and animation. Consult on objectives; budget; background; and presentation approaches, styles, and techniques. Collaborate closely with art directors and photographers to design and produce highly customized, innovative, and technically demanding lighting to achieve creative vision. Meet creative and logistical requirements to deliver highly planned and orchestrated technical lighting to achieve spontaneous looking results. Adaptable, focused, and trusted to meet high-pressure industry demands and tight deadlines. Organize and manage shoots across continental U.S. and abroad in Istanbul, Paris, Berlin, London, Milan, Sidney, and numerous other locations.• Adept at achieving practical results to reduce post production time and cost• Proactive in identifying issues early and innovating solutions• Improvise with available equipment to achieve specialized effects in any location• Able to achieve specified high-production results within limited budgetsImplement various types of lighting, including high speed, dance, fashion, and catalog. Direct and set up multiple sets to achieve desired results—from lighting a match to lighting a cathedral.

Have provided lighting design, photo editing, retouching, technical support, and planning for more than 75 clients and hundreds of shoots since 2005—from identifying a solution and sourcing a trampoline on 45 minutes notice for a catalog shoot requiring “more action than normal” to high precision lighting to make a standard Pepsi six pack appear nestled within a snow globe. Numerous long-term clients.Global work.

Greater New York City Area

Freelance Lighting Director at Spiegel Fashion.

FreelanceDesign lighting for product shoots.Create and build elaborate sets with lighting schemes.

Freelance Lighting Director and execution on Sean John Clothes campaigns, Ciroc Campaigns, Ciroc Boyz as well as most internal and external projects.

Freelance Lighting and retouchingCollaborate with photographer on lighting for still life shoots.Retouch and enhance various aspects of the images.

FreelanceSet up lighting for fashion shoots.Support photographer in all aspects of the shoot to ensure smooth workflow.

Lighting and support for a variety of the various Playboy magazine shoots on the east coast, Canada and Jamaica

Organized and managed aspects of domestic and international shoots. Responsible for all film processing, from downloading to client delivery. Created new inventory system to manage film and related supplies, significantly reducing prep time. Improved equipment performance by establishing maintenance schedules for all equipment. Photographed all 35 mm slide dupes on premises to maximize revenue to the studio.

Coordinated and executed photo documentation of museum exhibitions. Oversaw lighting installations, equipment, composition layout, and film processing. Redesigned and implemented new studio layout, darkroom layout, and negative filing system, which improved studio efficiency. Managed supply inventory.

Managed the production department of a large print post-production company. Assembled mechanical paste-up and designs. Generated combo negatives for offset printing. Developed four color separation negatives and veloxes. Shot stats and screen negatives.