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I am a senior retoucher and project manager with over a decade in the photography industry. I specialize in high-end beauty and portrait retouching, color treatments, and compositing, delivering polished results for advertising, editorial, and fashion projects. I’m a reliable, hardworking, and innovative team player who values learning and growth. As a business owner and creative lead, I’ve built and managed teams of freelance retouchers and videographers, shaped post-production workflows, and driven branding, website development, and client relations across photo and video projects.…I am a senior retoucher and project manager with over a decade in the photography industry. I specialize in high-end beauty and portrait retouching, color treatments, and compositing, delivering polished results for advertising, editorial, and fashion projects. I’m a reliable, hardworking, and innovative team player who values learning and growth. As a business owner and creative lead, I’ve built and managed teams of freelance retouchers and videographers, shaped post-production workflows, and driven branding, website development, and client relations across photo and video projects.

Callie Giovanna Shields

Photographer, Video Editor, Project Manager, +2

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I am a senior retoucher and project manager with over a decade in the photography industry. I specialize in high-end beauty and portrait retouching, color treatments, and compositing, delivering polished results for advertising, editorial, and fashion projects. I’m a reliable, hardworking, and innovative team player who values learning and growth. As a business owner and creative lead, I’ve built and managed teams of freelance retouchers and videographers, shaped post-production workflows, and driven branding, website development, and client relations across photo and video projects.…I am a senior retoucher and project manager with over a decade in the photography industry. I specialize in high-end beauty and portrait retouching, color treatments, and compositing, delivering polished results for advertising, editorial, and fashion projects. I’m a reliable, hardworking, and innovative team player who values learning and growth. As a business owner and creative lead, I’ve built and managed teams of freelance retouchers and videographers, shaped post-production workflows, and driven branding, website development, and client relations across photo and video projects.

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I am a senior retoucher and project manager with over a decade in the photography industry. I specialize in high-end beauty and portrait retouching, color treatments, and compositing, delivering polished results for advertising, editorial, and fashion projects. I’m a reliable, hardworking, and innovative team player who values learning and growth.

As a business owner and creative lead, I’ve built and managed teams of freelance retouchers and videographers, shaped post-production workflows, and driven branding, website development, and client relations across photo and video projects.

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Work Experience

Senior Retoucher / Business Owner at CHROMA Visuals

March 1, 2011 - Present

High-End Retouching for Advertisements, Editorial, and Fashion, including color treatments, beauty, skin, compositing, reshaping, clothing, product work. Creating and overseeing project scopes, schedules, deadlines, estimates, billing, and quality control. Managing client project scopes and expectations. On-Set Retouching. Hiring and managing freelance retouchers. Also involved in GIF creation, color grading video, website design, and logo creation.

Photo Editor at TED Worldwide

June 1, 2016 - Present

Ingest, apply metadata, process, edit, color and contrast-correct, post, and deliver general event coverage onsite. Work with TED's Photo Coordinator to edit photography files to describe the speaker program and attendee experience. Set up and help train new editors. Work to improve the conference editing process through documentation and feedback. Tools include Photo Mechanic, Lightroom, Dropbox, AirTable, ChronoSync, and TED's proprietary DAM software.

Business Owner / Editor / Photographer at Vitae Weddings

October 1, 2021 - September 5, 2025

High-End wedding photographer and editor. Editing wedding photography, creating color looks, and managing post-production schedules and deadlines. Creating our website, logo, mailers, social media presence, album design, prints, and gifts.

Co-Owner at Toast Wedding Films

August 1, 2019 - September 5, 2025

Creating and pioneering processes and setting up multiple software to run the business. Hiring and managing hundreds of freelance videographers and editors. Project managing, booking, and billing for the shooting and editing of all wedding videos. Creating our website, banners, internal and external documents, and logo.

Senior Retoucher / Studio Manager at Norman Jean Roy Studio

February 28, 2011 - September 5, 2025

Senior Retoucher: Beauty and portrait retouching (film and digital), color treatments, compositing, and photo manipulation. Digital Manager: editing, file processing, drum scanning, flatbed scanning, monitor profiling, archiving, web gallery, FTP maintenance and usage, and maintaining tear sheet catalog. Studio Manager: hiring and managing full-time staff and freelance assistants; photoshoot production, travel booking, billing, and agency/client correspondence. Book & Exhibition: scanning, pre-press, and assisting in editing a documentary photography book; coordination of limited-edition boxes, slips, and exhibition printing. Printer calibration and profiling; RIP setup and maintenance.

Business Owner / Senior Retoucher at CHROMA Visuals

March 1, 2011 - Present

Chroma Visuals is a digital retouching boutique focusing on beauty and portrait retouching, color treatments, and compositing. Responsibilities include high-end retouching for advertising, editorial, and fashion; color treatments, skin smoothing, compositing, reshaping, clothing and product edits; creating and overseeing project scopes, schedules, deadlines, estimates, billing, and quality control; managing client relationships and expectations; hiring and managing freelance retouchers; exploring GIF creation and color grading for video; creating the website and logo.

Business Owner / Editor / Photographer at Vitae Weddings Worldwide

March 1, 2018 - Present

Vitae Weddings is a wedding photography company. Responsible for high-end wedding photography and editing, defining and executing look and post-production workflow, website branding, mailers, Instagram, album design, prints, gift calendars, and related branding materials; hiring and managing freelance photographers; additional projects including GIF creation and color grading video.

COO at Toast Wedding Films

August 1, 2019 - August 1, 2019

Toast Wedding Films is a nationwide wedding videography company. Created and pioneered processes, implemented multiple software solutions to run the business, hired and managed hundreds of freelance videographers and editors, project managed bookings and billing for wedding shooting and editing, and created website banners, internal and external documents, and logo.

Studio Manager / Senior Retoucher at Norman Jean Roy Studio

January 1, 2000 - February 1, 2011

Norman Jean Roy Studio is a commercial and portrait photography studio. Senior Retoucher (beauty and portrait retouching) with image processing, color treatments, compositing, and photo manipulation. Oversaw other retouchers, managed deadlines, and liaised with photographers, advertising agencies, and editorial clients. Digital management including editing, file processing, archiving, tear sheet cataloging, and website upkeep; studio operations including RIP setup, large-format printing, and printer calibration. Managed recruitment and supervision of full-time staff and freelance assistants; coordinated photo shoots, travel, bookings, billing, and client communication.