CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN
San Francisco California • +1 415-425-2355 • chris@chrisbrennanphoto.net • linkedin.com/in/chrisbrennansf • chrisbrennanphoto.net

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
High School Diploma (May 1997)

- 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