Anastasia V.

Hi, I'm Anastasia! 👋 I'm a Top-Rated photo and video editor with a 100% Job Success Score and a multidisciplinary background in professional photography, video production, graphic design, visual communication, and research. I help artists, educators, creators, and small creative teams turn large amounts of materials into clear, thoughtful finished work. I enjoy contributing across the full creative process, from researching and organizing source material to shaping the story, editing the visuals, and preparing the finished work for publication. 📷 PHOTO EDITING, CULLING & RETOUCHING With 8 years of professional photography experience, I approach post-production as a photographer first. • Culling large galleries based on expressions, timing, composition, and storytelling • Lightroom color correction, gallery consistency, and matching an established visual style • Natural Photoshop retouching of skin, hair, clothing, backgrounds, and distracting elements • Manual selections, masks, adjustment layers, cleanup, and compositing • Preparing photographs for packaging, marketing materials, presentations, web, and professional print • Photo sequencing for albums, editorial stories, and other narrative formats My usual approach is manual and non-generative. I can also use AI-assisted tools when they are genuinely useful and appropriate for the project. When a project needs more than image editing, I can also bring in my graphic design experience to create supporting layouts and visual assets for packaging, presentations, web, and marketing materials. 🎬 VIDEO EDITING & STORY ASSEMBLY I especially enjoy editing where the job is not simply to cut clips together, but to understand the material and shape it into a coherent story. I can help with: • Long-form interviews, documentaries, lectures, educational and cultural projects, artist films, and creator content • Organizing and reviewing large amounts of raw footage • Building a clear narrative from unscripted or loosely structured material • Multicamera syncing and editing • Selecting B-roll and integrating photographs, archival material, documents, and graphics • Titles, typography, simple motion graphics, and frame-by-frame animation using Illustrator assets • Dialogue cleanup, music placement, sound design, color correction, and visual consistency • Creating Shorts, Reels, trailers, and other shorter edits from long-form projects I primarily edit in Final Cut Pro and can also work in Adobe Premiere Pro when a project workflow requires it. My previous video work includes short-form videos created alongside photography projects, a series of 40-minute educational lectures for Moscow State University, and recurring animated presentations for Group-IB employee award ceremonies. 🔎 RESEARCH SUPPORT FOR CREATIVE PROJECTS My background in Cultural Studies and qualitative research helps me enter unfamiliar subjects, understand their context, and identify the material that genuinely supports the story. I can research subjects, niches, visual references, archival images and footage, interviews, articles, documents, and historical sources. I can also organize source links, research notes, project assets, timelines, and preliminary story structures. Research can be a standalone task or part of a larger workflow that continues through editing and final delivery. 🤝 WORKING WITH ME I value human connections and believe the best work comes from open, respectful collaboration. I try to understand different perspectives, resolve challenges constructively, and find solutions that everyone feels good about. I communicate directly, set realistic timelines, and keep the process transparent from start to finish. Long-term collaborations with small teams and independent professionals are my preference, but I am equally comfortable joining an established agency workflow or handling a clearly defined production task. Languages: English, Russian, and conversational Spanish. If you have a folder full of photographs, hours of footage, scattered research, or a half-formed story, tell me what you're working on, whether it is a documentary, a course video, a wedding gallery, an artist project, or something else entirely.