Katie Cornett Martin

In-studio product photography for eCommerce, packaging, and product demo videos at Mattel Creative Services. Utilize precise lighting techniques and product styling to best highlight product design and features. Dolls, action figures, games, packaging, and more. Maintain brand-specific aesthetics within diverse product family. Demonstrate and capture function and design features of preliminary assets for global marketing and sales-quoting teams. Create, retouch, metadata, upload, and monitor preliminary digital assets and Planograms. Maintain restricted-access asset protocol and asset database accuracy for upcoming product seasons.

Food | Product | Lifestyle Editorial | Commericial - Santa Monica, CA - www.katiecornettphotography.com - IG @katie_cornett Commercial photographer, in-studio or on-location for social media, advertising, or eCommerce.

In-Studio creation of digital content for social media clients. Deliver brand-consistent photo content to fulfill client orders. Clients include Native Deodorant, Bella Impavida Wines, Retinol, Face Reality Cosmetics, Cane + Austin, Petite Ave

In-studio edit, color-correction, book and print-product design. Use Proselect and Photoshop to create layouts and prepare client presentations. Retouched portraits and prepared print products for production. Pathed/masked images for in-situ website presentation for Weirdoh Birds brand.

Freelance retoucher for portrait (retail, beauty, fashion), product, and design work (pathing/clipping, object removal, compositing, recoloring). Post production and product layout for retail photography- culling, color correction, retouching, book layout, print preparation. Private Photoshop and Lightroom tutoring. Photoshop CC, Lightroom CC, Proselect, Capture One.

Lifestyle product photography for jewelry and handbag company- Summer/ Fall/ Winter 2016, Spring/Summer 2017, Fall/Winter 2018, and Summer 2019 Campaigns. Produced and photographed location and studio product shoots for social media and advertising use.

Assist on-location family photographer, Canon shooter. In-studio edit, color-correction, client communications, book and card design. Used Proselect to create layouts and prepare client presentations. Retouch portraits and prepare print products for production. In-office organization and basic studio-management tasks.

Retail Store Manager Manhattan Village, Manhattan Beach, CA- Nov 2007- Sept 2009 Del Amo Fashion Ctr, Torrance, CA Sept 2009- Aug 2011 Store Manager for mid-volume luxury retail store. Experienced manager of team of up to 36 employees. Assisted in the planning for 6 New Store Openings, lead district training for CRM (Client Relationship Management) system and goal-setting (doubled financial ROI in 1 year), and trained 6 newly hired managers for district. Managed 4 different store locations in LA. Responsibilities included: • Forecast and Sales/ Payroll planning • Lead an environment of customer service and teambuilding • Recruit/ hire/ train top talent • Development of management and sales staff via The Situational Leader approach to motivation and feedback. • Training in Franklin Covey: Focus program of goal achievement and personal organization. • Executive presentations of current state of business and strategy

Department Manager- Furniture, Flooring, Bath, and Windows. Managed 4 employees, department merchandising and collateral, and training.

Annual summer/ fall seasonal position with a Regional Theatre company in the Wig and Makeup Department as assistant to the Wigmaster, including 6-week build period and 3 month run of 3 shows in an outdoor space in rotating rep. In 2006 season, I took an acting position over the Wigs and Makeup for the Adams Theatre for the duration of the season after the Wigmaster took other employment.

Honors Graduate

Commercial photography program with emphasis on product and portrait lighting. Advanced retouching and digital art techniques.