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Freelance work still meets paperwork — brand catalogues, school contracts, NGO commissions. This one leads with what independents are judged on: genres you cover, turnaround you keep, and the share of your calendar that books itself through referrals. Centered, airy, and fully parseable.

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Built for

  • ✓Freelance portrait, family, and branding photographers
  • ✓Product and D2C catalogue photographers
  • ✓Studio photographers going independent

What you get

  • ✓Live on-page editing — click any text and type, paginated like the final PDF
  • ✓Selectable-text PDF export with clickable email and portfolio links
  • ✓AI import: upload your old resume PDF and land in this template, editable
  • ✓Scored 93/100 — interview-ready against the 30 published rules, measured by exporting this exact template. That is inside the interview-ready band our checker uses (85+). We simply reserve the certified badge for 90 and above, so this is a strong template that misses a deliberately strict bar — not a weak one.
Leah Ingram
Freelance Photographer
leah.ingram@example.com·(555) 337-9925·Austin, TX·leahingram.photo
Skills
Photography
  • Portrait and headshots
  • Product and lifestyle
  • Natural and strobe lighting
  • Location scouting
Post-production
  • Lightroom
  • Capture One
  • Photoshop retouching
  • Colour grading and delivery
Business
  • Client consultation
  • Quotes and contracts
  • Scheduling (HoneyBook)
  • Gallery delivery (Pic-Time)
Education
B.F.A. Photography
University of Texas at Austin, College of Fine Arts · 2013 – 2017
Profile

Freelance portrait and brand photographer, six years independent after two in a studio. Four hundred and twenty shoots for families, founders and direct-to-consumer brands, 70% of the calendar filled by repeat and referral clients, and a five-day delivery promise kept on 98% of jobs. Natural light first, one strobe when it earns its place.

Experience
Freelance Photographer — Leah Ingram Photography
02/2020 – Present
  • Shoot 70 to 80 sessions a year across family portraits, founder headshots and product campaigns; revenue up 35% year on year since 2022
  • Produced product and lifestyle imagery for 14 direct-to-consumer brands; one client's ad set at 2.1 times the conversion of its previous creative
  • Run headshot days for 6 companies, 40 to 60 staff each, delivered retouched within three days
  • Keep 70% of bookings from repeat and referral clients through a 12-month follow-up calendar
  • Manage the whole business: quotes, contracts, scheduling, editing and invoicing, with a 5-day delivery promise kept on 98% of jobs
Studio Photographer — Lumen Portrait Studio
05/2018 – 01/2020
  • Photographed 600 portrait sessions in two years, from newborns to executive headshots
  • Ran the studio's three-light setup and taught it to four junior photographers
  • Raised print-package sales 28% by presenting a curated gallery of 30 images instead of 200
Second Shooter and Assistant — Hill Country Weddings
03/2017 – 04/2018
  • Second-shot 35 weddings and assisted on lighting, culling and client galleries
Equipment
Sony A7 IV and A7 III bodies · 35 mm 1.4, 50 mm 1.2, 85 mm 1.4, 24 to 70 mm 2.8 · Godox AD200 and AD600 strobes
Recognition
Featured in Austin Monthly, best local photographers — 2024
PPA Merit Image, portrait category — 2023

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Do freelance photographers even need a resume?

The moment a brand, school, or NGO is the client, yes — someone in an office files it. One honest page with numbers (shoots, turnaround, repeat rate) reads better there than a rate card.

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