Rogue Guitar Shop
In cooperation with Rogue Guitar Shop’s guitar & accessory vendors I have created many beautiful and appealing images that have been used in their marketing for products. I have also helped with creating strategy plans as to how to grow an audience on social media and improve onsite interaction which involved checking analytics and staying up to date on current trends in the music industry. Streamlined a process of doing product photography with social media management in which I would photograph, edit, and caption every post and advertisement.
Every week we would push out a newsletter to all our shoppers to share every new item in stock and what is on sale. I used a program called Mailchimp to create this newsletter, this was our most effective way to draw people back to our website to purchase new orders. I would communicate with the manager of the store about what promotions they were running and what items in particular they may want to promote. With the use of this software and some use in other editing software for resizing or light use of photo manipulation I was able to achieve this.
Proud to say I achieved the company’s best engagement rate on all social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter/X.
Cherished Memories Photography
Working with Cherished Memories has been a delight. Being responsible for so many young kids’ school photos or senior grad pictures will always be a joyful experience. I have had the pleasure of photographing over thousands of kids over several different schools in Riverside county. Along side others on my team we’ve helped achieve an all time highest growth period for this company. As team lead for our on site school shoots I take responsibility for managing my photographers as well as working along side school admin making sure they experience a smooth and fun photo shoot.
While working the camera I make use of many different pieces of equipment such as strobe lights, transceivers, background stand, and a Canon R100 camera. We also use a software called Workflow which is used to live import photos from the camera onto our laptop while on shoot. At the end of our workday we would need to offload these pictures onto a server for backups.
Happy to say that the work being done here is amazing. We are taking part in capturing kids memories and I couldn’t be more proud to have been a part of it.
Freelancing Work
I started freelancing back when I first learned how to edit. With the use of Fiverr’s platform I was able to start putting my skills to use as well as make connections with real clients. Most of my gigs were revolved around simple edits for photo’s such as background removal, color grading, and some photo manipulation. This was such an amazing learning experience as I was able to discover how to properly communicate with clients on projects and understanding the vision they have for their commission. Every client I have worked with has said great things about me and my work.
I used industry standard software such as Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom for making these edits. Most often I would be using quick selection or lasso tools to be making masks for photo’s and replacing backgrounds for clients photo’s. I also used stamp tool, spot healing brush, and paint brush to make touch ups on appearances. In more complex edits I would be working with multiple layers of edits. These would usually be more artistic using a heavy amount of photo manipulation needing the use of adjustment layers, lighting curves, filters, and blending modes.
Personal Projects
YouTube
In my free time I enjoy recording and editing videos about both retro and modern videogames. I do everything myself from the scriptwriting, recording, audio mixing, video editing, and thumbnails. I’ve seen great success in viewership and engagement. My current most viewed video is about me talking about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with around 30,000 views!
Graphic Design
Originally, my first passion was graphic design, which then led to me discovering film and photography. While those are my main interests, I still love to work on some fun projects every once in a while. I create cartoons and logo designs usually inside Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. On display you see a picture of my drawing of Steven from Steven Universe Future.