Maria Cristina Montiel
Founder Photographer, Creative Director, Digital Multimedia Artist @Mcm Creative
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WORK HISTORY
Founder Photographer, Creative Director, Digital Multimedia Artist @Mcm Creative
High-end Retouching + Complex Compositing: Photography + Stop Motion Animation - Portraits, Still Life, Album Covers, Travel, Music and Art. Clients include Slate Studios, Sony Music, Burns Group, Morgan Stanley, Havas Worldwide Health, Blue Star, Euro RSCG Life Metamax, RR Donnelley, Studio W 26th, Shoot Digital, Clinic Studio, VIEW imaging, and La Boutique.
EDUCATION
The New School
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Photography, Digital Media, & Creative Writing
Parsons School of Design - The New School
BFA, Photography, Digital Media, Creative Writing
The Art Students League
Painting
Ringling College of Art and Design
Fine Arts
Toscana Photographic Workshop
Visual Poetry w/ Keith Carter, Fine Art Photography
SKILLS
ABOUT MARIA CRISTINA MONTIEL
I have worked with Photoshop since 1995, and currently use the Adobe CC Master Collection to provide digital imaging services for celebrity, advertising, music, fashion, beauty, architectural, and travel industries.I have retouched the covers of Vogue, GQ, Jane, Child, Marie Claire, Glamour, Vanity Fair, and Harper\'s Bazaar. I handle many luxury accounts, and also manage, coordinate, delegate, liaise: artists, clients, art directors, designers, and retouchers for many of these projects. I am methodical at overseeing quality control, implementing non destructive editing techniques, and creating elaborate composites. I have a keen eye for composition, lighting, color corrections, high resolution skin, hair, anatomy, still life, and creative digital imaging.Working as a freelance senior retoucher for an exclusive clientele, my work appears daily on all social media platforms for the world’s most prestigious brands, defining their aesthetic. Notable projects I have worked on include Bespoke Post, Salt and Snow, Shiseido, Origins, Aveda, Estée Lauder, Narciso, Armani, Express, Versace, Louis Vuitton, Cool Water, Avon, Maybelline, Herbal Essence, Revlon, De Beers, and David Yurman, as well as others of similar caliber. Some of the accounts I have handled include Beyoncé, Destiny\'s Child, 5th Harmony, DJ Khaled, Big Grams, T.I, 2 Cellos, Barbara Streisand, Glee, Tony Bennett, Depeche Mode, Yo-Yo Ma, Kelly Clarkson, Cindi Lauper, The Piano Guys, Gavin McGraw, Emblem 3, Jamie Foxx, Billy Joel, Hanes, Decadent Chocolate Chip Cookies, Dysport, H&M, Polo Home & Ralph Lauren. Many of these projects have been managed remotely on my state of the art equipment to streamline the post production process.Specialties: High-end retouching, digital imaging, travel photography, architectural photography, portraiture, product photography, advertising, design, motion graphics, CGI, digital arts, illustration, fine art, multimedia imaging, watercolor painting, mixed media, music, on-location digital post production, and providing remote creative services globally via FTP.
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