EXPERIENCE

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

Technologies: 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

San Francisco, California | Freelance

Event coverage for SFMOMA Open Space platform
Created series of member portraits used throughout SFMOMA Biennial Report 2014–2016

Technologies: DSLR, Lightroom, Photoshop, Nextcloud

Owner-operator Mishka San Francisco Dec 2012 - Feb 2016

San Francisco, California | 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

Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite, SketchUp, Vend, Xero, Nextcloud, Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook Ads

Contributing Photographer San Francisco Magazine Mar 2009 - Mar 2012

San Francisco, California | 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

Technologies: Canon, Adobe Creative Suite

Color Technician World Golf Tour Nov 2009 - Oct 2010

San Francisco, California | 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

Technologies: Lightroom, Photoshop, Creative Suite, Bridge, Wacom Tablet, Color Calibration Hardware

Coauthor & Designer Mark Batty Publisher Jul 2008 - Aug 2009

San Francisco, California | 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

Technologies: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Bridge

Book Designer Prestel Publishing Mar 2009 - Apr 2009

San Francisco, California | 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

Technologies: Indesign, Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge

Frontend Web Developer Group Delphi Jan 2006 - Jun 2006

Alameda, California | Contract

Frontend development for Adobe.com customer portal

Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite

EDUCATION

Cape Coral High School May 1997

High School Diploma | Cape Coral, Florida

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 in the digital age