Joseph Baldwin

Responsible for managing and creating print, email, and eCommerce photography for two Cigars International subsidiaries (Pipes & Cigars and Meier & Dutch Wholesale), as well as email and eCommerce images for Cigars International. Manage a fast-paced and demanding daily workload of photographs spanning from large lifestyle sets to tabletop product photos. Work with the team responsible for creating and maintaining visual standards for Pipes & Cigars. Play a key role in photographing and documenting Cigarfest, an annual four-day festival attended by over eight thousand cigar enthusiasts and more than fifty business partners. Collaborate with multiple departments to ensure that the company's images represent the brand in the best light. Attend press checks to ensure color accuracy in print catalogs. Complete post production on images: creating paths, dust and spot removal, color correction, masking, creating composites, and other general editing

Captured images of children and families celebrating the holidays by meeting Santa Claus. Maintained a steady flow of customers to ensure shorter wait times. Executed both candid and posed photographs of children’s time with Santa. Assisted in selling print and gift packages to customers. Adapted to the ever changing size, age, and attitude of families meeting Santa.

Maintained the cleanliness of the darkroom, changed and refreshed darkroom chemicals, and assisted students in film developing. Punctually changed darkroom chemicals to ensure the best development quality. Executed daily deep cleans of both the film development and print development areas. Assisted students in resolving challenges with prints and film development.