Charl Van Der Merwe Email and Phone Number

Imaging professional with 18 years of international production experience. Digital Operator, High-End Image Retoucher and Video Colourist. A perfectionist with a fine eye for detail, a huge passion for lighting, colour temperatures, motivated light sources, texture, movement lensing and mood. Skills include: • Production Management.• Studio Management.• Workflow QC Management.• Adobe Photoshop (High End).• Adobe Lightroom (High End).• Capture One Pro (High End).• Davinci Resolve (High End).• Phase One, Hasselblad, Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji.• Lighting design - Fashion/Advertising/Lifestyle/Interior/Product/Studio/Location. • Retouching Workflows, Advanced Skill Development.• Styleshoots, Horizontal/Vertical.• Orbitvu XL/XXL Studio (Shooting Raw).• Colour proofing/Setting up for print.• Creating colour profiles within Capture One or Lightroom for all camera and lens combinations (X-rite/Calibrite). • Setting up photography input from multiple mediums to produce consistent tonality, contrast, luminosity and colour. • Adjusting problematic reflective ranges, colour gamut, saturation and luminosity visually with product in hand. Processing each job/client together to match output consistency. • Locking colour and density (luminosity) during photographic RAW processing.• Avoiding tonal and colour adjustments in post production, producing consistent output. • Managing colour Gamut workflow from RGB (Adobe98) to sRGB or CMYK. • Web file formats/compression.International Production Experience: (Photographers/Clients).• Steve McCurry – Chevron • Mark Seliger – Jay-Z (Rocawear)• Carter Smith – Louis Vitton • Ben Weller – Kelly Slater | Outerknown• Tom Nagy – IBM, Evonik, Siemens• Michael Schnabel – O2 Germany • James Dimmock – Dare 2 B• Chris Craymer – Reebok, Celio• Jesper Brandt – Damernas Varld• Jimmy Backius – Dressmann, KappAhl• Erik Chmil – Opel• Dimitri Daniloff – Carlsberg, Halls• Henrik Knudsen – VW Polo, Canon• Erwin Olaf – Pfizer• Petrus Olsson – SEB• Tobias Regell – Swedish Cosmopolitan• Chad Pitman – Replay• Graeme Montgomery – Purina• Mert Rollson – BASF• Kalle Gustafsson – Fila, Grey Goose Vodka• Sam Robinson – Lufthansa, DELL, Polar, Dare2B• Henrik Purienne – Camper• Viviane Sassen – Bergdorf Goodman• Nicklas Rudfell – Sony Ericsson• Fredrik Clement – Merrell• Stephen Shore – ESSO• David Short – Regatta• Stephen Greeff – Fat Face• Antti Viitala – Golla, ValioAnd many more ……………..