Owner Chris Brennan Photography Jan 2008 - Present • San Francisco California (Part-time)
  • Delivered professional photography across product, fashion, editorial, events, portraits, lifestyle, catalog, and stock
  • Executed advanced post-production including retouching, color correction, masking, and compositing
  • Operated and optimized studio lighting, flash systems, and production workflows
  • Applied deep knowledge of DSLR systems, optics, focal lengths, sensor formats, and their impact on image output
  • Designed, built, and maintained a Proxmox Type-1 hypervisor hosting business-critical services including email, websites, and customer-facing platforms
Tech stack: 35mm DSLR & Film SLR, Studio Lighting, Studio Grip, Lightroom, Darktable, Capture One, Adobe Creative Suite, Wacom, Canon, Einstein Wireless Studio Strobe Units, Proxmox, Debian Linux, Nextcloud
Photographer San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Dec 2008 - May 2016 (Freelance)
  • Event coverage for SFMOMA Open Space platform
  • Created series of member portraits used throughout SFMOMA Biennial Report 2014–2016
Tech stack: DSLR, Lightroom, Photoshop, Nextcloud
Owner-operator Mishka San Francisco Dec 2012 - Feb 2016 (Full-time)
  • Designed, constructed, and operated a franchise retail clothing boutique to brand specifications of three existing stores in New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles
  • Store manager, wholesale buyer, events coordinator, bookkeeper
  • Hired and managed small team of employees & interns
  • Maintained all hardware & software systems critical to operation
Tech stack: Adobe Creative Suite, SketchUp, Vend, Xero, Nextcloud, Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook Ads
Contributing Photographer San Francisco Magazine Mar 2009 - Mar 2012 (Freelance)
  • Contributed editorial photography published in 10 print issues and online
  • Selected for a feature assignment with imagery used in a two-page spread, colophon, and cover collage for the 2011 “The Best” issue
  • Completed six published assignments for the NIGHT WATCH nightlife column
  • Featured in two CLICK photography issues with two-page spreads and accompanying image background stories
Tech stack: Canon, Adobe Creative Suite
Color Technician World Golf Tour Nov 2009 - Oct 2010 (Full-time)
  • Color correction, retouching, masking, collision mapping and compositing in Adobe Creative Suite
  • Documented bugs in Adobe Lightroom and worked with Adobe dev team to resolve them
  • Calibrated workstation displays in color controlled ambient light environment
Tech stack: Lightroom, Photoshop, Creative Suite, Bridge, Wacom Tablet, Color Calibration Hardware
Coauthor & Designer Mark Batty Publisher Jul 2008 - Aug 2009 (Contract)
  • Coauthored and produced the best selling book 'Bay Area Graffiti'
  • Design, layout, typography, and prepress using Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop
  • Culled 10k+ Lightroom image library down to ~800 finished images
  • Developed a system to dynamically group images based on emergent themes in the metadata used to generate novel visual narratives throughout the layout of the book
Tech stack: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Bridge
Book Designer Prestel Publishing Mar 2009 - Apr 2009 (Contract)
  • Produced San Francisco Street Art by Steve Rotman
  • Design, layout, select photography
  • Hard cover: 6.69 x 0.51 x 4.72 inches, 96 pages
Tech stack: Indesign, Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge
Frontend Web Developer Group Delphi Jan 2006 - Jun 2006 (Contract)
  • Frontend development for Adobe.com customer portal
Tech stack: Adobe Creative Suite
Cape Coral High School May 1997
High School Diploma
  • Film Photography I, II, III. 35mm SLR, B&W film development process, darkroom, enlargers & Photoshop v2.0. This introduction set the stage for how I approach photo imaging even in the digital age
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