Cassandra Williams

How would you describe your time at Millers Professional Imaging?

Millers Professional Imaging is a digital photography lab specializing in the printing of photographs from professional photographers around the world. I have been a member of the Finish Department since my inception at the lab where we add various services to prints including coatings, textures, center, masonite, foam, board, and bevel mounts.

The work that I do on a daily basis is somewhat removed from the larger department and involves manually painting layers of water-based clear texture onto photographs using the age old method of water, paint, and brushes. These photographs are often mounted onto canvas stretcher frames, pressed onto masonite boards, or mounted onto various sizes of mount board and foam core. I work with prints as small as 4x5 inches to as large as 30x40 inches. Various different painting techniques are applied but most often the figures in the image are followed much like an oil painting with a non-pigmented texture. The outcome is often similar to that of oil painting except that it is done on top of a photograph rather than created of its own will. A certain uniformity is required of the job, although I have come up with specific styles that certain customers request to have permanently used on their prints.

While at Millers, I have worked hard and have taken responsibility for my own inner-department of Brush Texture while maintaining a presence in the larger department of Finishing Services. I have shown a work ethic that convinced the company to maintain a position for me prior to my two-month backpacking trip through Western Europe in the Summer of 2006. During my time with this company I have been kept on and maintained my dedication through three seasons of layoffs and have worked many months of extended hours during busy seasons....