- USA, Los Angeles
- Born in:1982
- Assistant since:2012
- Driving licence:Car
- Personal car:personal car available
- Passport:yes
- Languages:English
- Telephone: 815-558-2526
- www.ryanjspeers.com
- ryanjspeers@gmail.com
Photo Assistant, Digital Tech
Ryan Speers
People, Portrait, Architecture, Location Scout, Fashion, Beauty, Stillife, Food, Landscape, International Exp.
Know How:
Camera experience:
Canon DSLR
Canon C70
Canon Mirrorless
Sony Mirrorless
Nikon
DJI
DJI Mavic 3 Pro
DJI Osmo
Mamiya 7ii
Mamiya 67 Pro ii
Pentax 67
Digibag:
16” MacBook Pro with 1TB storage, loaded with Adobe Creative Suite and Capture One
27” BenQ Photo monitor (upon request)
Tether Cables for Canon, Sony, and Nikon
1TB G-Drive external solid-state working hard drive
2TB USBC Samsung external solid-state working hard drive
2TB USBC Lacie external backup drive
ChronoSync for backing up and mirroring hard drives
Stingers, surge protectors, extra USB cables, extra batteries, PC sync cables.
Lights:
- Constant Lights: Aperture Lights, Arri, Light Panels, Light Mats, Source Fours, and Kino Flo.
- Strobes: Profoto, Canon Speed Lights, Elinchrom, Godox, Godox speed lights,
Westscott.
Software experience:
- Capture One, Chronosync, Adobe Creative Suite—Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, After Effects, LRTime-lapse, and PTGui.
Abroad Experience:
- I have experience working abroad and traveling internationally, and I am familiar with the paperwork required for international travel as well as customs procedures when transporting large amounts of photographic equipment. In one such role, as the lead photographer for an internal campaign at Meta (then Facebook), I was responsible for taking hundreds of portraits of Facebook employees, along with panoramas and time-lapses of cities—Dublin, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Singapore, and Toronto—for a large wrap-around screen used to display content at their huge global summit.
References as assistant / Career
Additional Experience
- BA in Film & Photography from Columbia College Chicago.
- I’ve worked as a photographer, assistant, grip, AC, and camera operator for creative studios like Imaginary Forces, Conscious Minds, Innocean USA, Meganice, Tastemade, and others. Their clients have included HBO, Sony, ABC, Oral-B, Disney, Hyundai, Gear Patrol, among others.
- Experienced in automotive, product, fashion, BTS, documentary, special effects, landscape, and nature photography.
- Worked on studio and location shoots, with crews ranging from four to hundreds.
- In 2022,
I obtained my FAA 107 license and am knowledgeable in pre-production for permitted drone shoots.
- I previously worked as a Teaching Assistant for a photography professor, also serving as the Darkroom Manager and Darkroom Technician. My responsibilities included setting up and maintaining the lab, teaching, and assisting students.
- In my free time, I have spent the past 15 years documenting climate change in California. I am currently writing and preparing a book about this journey for publication.