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GARRICK MEYERS

Mississauga,ON

Summary

Creative Photographer with extensive experience capturing stunning images and creating visually compelling content. Innovative with comprehensive understanding of camera settings, lighting techniques and digital editing tools. Strong management skills and committed to meeting clients' expectations.

Overview

36
36
years of professional experience

Work History

Sessional Faculty

DURHAM COLLEGE
01.2012 - Current
  • Teach multiple courses in the photography as well as the media fundamentals program
  • Plan, develop and facilitate student learning, provide effective instruction, and perform evaluations
  • Methodically plan and execute lessons plans, this includes collecting and organizing necessary resources
  • Deliver all sessions in a dynamic, efficient and structured manner
  • Design formative and summative evaluations according to the competency-based approach
  • Provide leadership and mentorship to students
  • As a result, many graduates have been able to start a successful carrier in photography and videography
  • Engage students in active evaluation of personal work and work by others
  • Provide constructive feedback
  • Build relationships with students while providing high degree of education and customization where required
  • In consultation with other faculty, design and implement improvement plans for under performing students and students with special needs
  • Encourage success and follow-up on each student
  • Collaborate with other staff to ensure studio and required equipment is booked and tools available
  • In the Digital Photography Course, provide introduction to the fundamentals of capturing visual images with a camera and ensure that strong technical skills and artistic vision are balanced
  • Teach about relevant historical and contemporary photography
  • Teach and assist students in examining past solutions and using technology effectively
  • Guide students to explore new and more efficient techniques
  • Topics covered are light, colour, optics and image storage, with an emphasis on effective composition and meaningful content
  • Learning is focused on the following areas. Commercial photography, portrait, fashion and beauty, food, product, interior lifestyle, scenery and landscape, architecture and nature
  • In the Basic and Advanced Lighting courses, introduce the nature of light and teach how to use it in the creation of an image
  • Teach natural and artificial lighting through portraiture, landscape, architectural and product photography
  • Present work of various professional artists to help students develop fluency with all types of light and learn studio terminology
  • Provide instruction on the behaviour of light and lighting ratios
  • Provide opportunities and help students learn how to use studio lighting equipment and natural light for commercial and artistic applications
  • Facilitated interactive hands-on activities pertaining to exposure, photographic lighting techniques and image processing and colour management for various types of photography
  • In the Media Fundamentals - Photography and Image Processing Program - teach students to develop the critical and technical skills required to effectively manipulate images as they learn efficient workflow for processing and printing
  • Focus on teaching students to solve their practical photographic problem by applying their technical skills
  • Explain in detail, colour quality control from capture to output including the theory and practice of colour management, device calibration and profiling diverse colour workflows, tone and colour correction
  • This includes methods of image optimization for RGB and CMYK output
  • Teach the theory and practice of digital asset management
  • Guide students on portfolio development and creation
  • Teach over 75 students concurrently and consistently maintain a high level of education
  • Carried out tasks in a classroom, virtually and in a hybrid model
  • Contributed to the curriculum design and review
  • Coordinated with other faculties to ensure that components that are taught across different courses are delivered in a logical manner
  • Identify gaps and provide recommendations.

Owner/Operator

GARRICK MEYERS PHOTOGRAPHY
01.1989 - Current
  • Portraiture, Corporate Headshots, Product, Event Coverage, Lifestyle and Media Communications based Imaging
  • Responsible for all aspects of business including management, communications, marketing, sales, equipment, imaging and production
  • Manage a team of photographers and coordinate shooting assignments of live events ranging from the coordination of 600 graduation students to corporate events to individuals and still subjects
  • Ensure staff are trained and their equipment is pre-tested
  • Responsible collating all images into a database in sequence
  • Manage shoot logistics, equipment and lighting requirements
  • Mentor and coach other photographers
  • Clients include:
  • Scotia Capital Markets and Scotia McLeod, Fleishman Hillard, Shandwick Corp./Continental, TD Evergreen, MacLean's Magazine, McDonalds Restaurants, George Cohon, Hawaiian Tropic, Fidelity Investments, Genpharm, Visual IMR, Compass Group, CFA-Multimedia Partners, High Five Photography, Cacao Fine Dutch Chocolates, V+H Event Photography, Maclean Hunter, College Park Mall, The Centre for Sports and Recreational Therapy, Theatre Resource Centre, Carrie Cockburn Photography, Canadian Tire Corp., Trillium School Portraits, Grad Images, Shun Sasabuchi, Edward Gajdel, Virginia MacDonald, Debra Thier, Mark Seliger, Kevin Hewitt, Per Christiansen, Margaret Mulligan, Nadia Molinari, Tim McGhie, Chris Chapman among others.

Film Lab Manager

TORONTO IMAGE WORKS
01.1993 - 01.1999
  • Managed all aspects of processing in the pro-lab
  • Procurement of processing and printing materials as well as required sundry operational materials
  • Researched, evaluated and bought products to support all operations
  • Responsible for quality assurance, sensitometry, machine and chemical maintenance
  • Responsible for issues and conflict resolution, customer relations scheduling and training
  • Assessed systems and methods for maintaining and operating a high-volume custom processing facility at peak efficiency.

Manager

JAPAN CAMERA CENTER COLLEGE PARK
01.1988 - 01.1993
  • Ensured the efficient operation of retail processing business including staffing requirements (hiring, conflict resolution, etc.), technical and mechanical maintenance of processing equipment, customer service, sales and training
  • Procurement for supplies and materials related to successful business environment
  • Ensured supplies were ordered in a timely fashion.

Education

Bachelors of Arts - Psychology - Psychology

Queens University
Kingston, ON
11.2021

Individual Course Training - Photography

Sheridan College of Applied Arts And Technology

No Degree - Portfolio Workshop

Ryerson University
Toronto, ON
2021

Commercial Training - Photoshop, Advanced Colour Printing

Toronto Image Works

Commercial Training - Film And Print Process Management Training

Kodak Canada

Certificate of Completion - Motorcycle Mechanics And Maintenance

Centennial College of Applied Arts And Technology
Scarborough, ON

Commercial Training - Flash And Strobe Lighting.

Nikon School of Photography

Skills

  • Faculty Meeting Participation
  • Digital Photography
  • Location Scouting
  • Web Practices
  • Lighting Expertise
  • Comprehensive Understanding of Exposure Techniques
  • Image Capture and Manipulation
  • Image Editing and Retouching
  • Adobe Systems Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Photo Processing
  • Retouching
  • Time Management
  • Color Correction
  • Facilitate Student Performance and Involvement
  • Landscape Photography
  • Wildlife Photography
  • Composition
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Portrait Photography
  • Pet Portraiture
  • Lesson Planning
  • Attention to Detail
  • Course Development
  • PowerPoint Presentations
  • Dance Photography
  • Product Photography
  • Event Photography

Timeline

Sessional Faculty

DURHAM COLLEGE
01.2012 - Current

Film Lab Manager

TORONTO IMAGE WORKS
01.1993 - 01.1999

Owner/Operator

GARRICK MEYERS PHOTOGRAPHY
01.1989 - Current

Manager

JAPAN CAMERA CENTER COLLEGE PARK
01.1988 - 01.1993

Bachelors of Arts - Psychology - Psychology

Queens University

Individual Course Training - Photography

Sheridan College of Applied Arts And Technology

No Degree - Portfolio Workshop

Ryerson University

Commercial Training - Photoshop, Advanced Colour Printing

Toronto Image Works

Commercial Training - Film And Print Process Management Training

Kodak Canada

Certificate of Completion - Motorcycle Mechanics And Maintenance

Centennial College of Applied Arts And Technology

Commercial Training - Flash And Strobe Lighting.

Nikon School of Photography

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