Retoucher & Product Photographer

About Us

Hawes & Curtis is a quintessentially British heritage brand with a legacy in luxury shirting, fine tailoring, and stylish casualwear. With a strong reputation for quality and timeless design, we are proud to dress the modern gentleman and woman with impeccable craftsmanship and style.

The Role

The role of Product Photographer & Retoucher sits in our in-house Studio & Production Services department, where you will provide specialist expertise to ensure that all photography & post-production requirements are executed to a professional level to the brand.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and shoot a variety of products including jewellery.
• Retouching a variety of product types including still life, mannequin, flat lays and on model to a strict daily postproduction target.
• Retouch images to a high standard in both quality and quantity.
• Ensure colour consistency & correction on images ensuring they are consistent and a true representation of the product.
• Name and maintain digital asset file. Follow workflow procedure with structure organisation and upload images to web servers.
• Crop images and maintain file size specification guidelines.
• Perform quality assurance on all images.
• Be responsible for completion of work to daily and weekly deadlines
• Showing initiative and creativity within part of a team, which is constantly improving its imagery.
• Carry out ad hoc duties for the studio.
• Work collaboratively & liaise with other departments involved in the studio process to ensure that all product issues are flagged and retouched before distribution.
• Ensure work is completed in accordance with postproduction guidelines and use approved ways of working.
• Maintain the digital asset library and the integrity of folder structures.
• Check that all files adhere to asset naming conventions.
• Support with team administration tasks and coordination and workload when required and during periods of annual leave.

Essential Requirements

• A strong and confident communicator.
• An excellent working knowledge of Photoshop is essential.
• Strong retouching techniques and eye for detail.
• Self-motivation to hit deadlines and initiative to work as part of a team.
• Strong understanding of colour correction.
• Proven ability to work efficiently on a high volume of images to meet deadlines.
• Good knowledge of photography and lighting equipment
• Excellent punctuality record.
• Excellent organisation and communication skills.
• Education qualification to degree level of photography or equivalent.
• Retouching and shooting product photography.
• Work in a fast-paced friendly studio environment dealing with still life, mannequin and flat lay apparel photography.
• Minimum 2-4 years of proven experience working in an e-commerce studio

Software and Technical Skills

• Adobe Creative suite (Photoshop)
• Capture one
• Microsoft office, excel and word
• Wacom Tablet
• Canon Equipment
• Profoto Lights
• Mac OS
• Video shoot & editing experience
• AI software experience

*Please note this role is based 4 days on-site with 1 day wfh