The Perfect Pairing: Cowboy Stock + Retouching

The team creatively retouched images for a regular pharmaceutical client, portraying a patient's hopeful future after medication. They utilized in-house stock photography and studio shots to meet the client's specific visual requirements, resulting in a successful and unique solution.

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Kelly Toth
Spoonflower Lookbook // A Creative Collaboration

The Lookbook is back! The longtime partnership between Cowboy Collective and Spoonflower’s creative team made the production of the first printed magazine since 2020 a dream! Cowboy’s talented crew produced the four-day shoot and retouched the final images to bring the Spoonflower team’s creative vision to life.

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Virginia Dees-Boyd
Spoonflower Holiday Mini-Mailer

The Cowboys brought a full suite of skills to the table for Spoonflower’s “Winter Colorland” holiday mailer—from retouching to copywriting to digiteching. The result: a vibrant, energetic mini-catalog that showed off stacks of gorgeous fabrics, perfect for cozy crafting nights.

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Durham ID

Durham ID (short for Durham Innovative District) is a 27-acre project in the heart of our city, intended to create spaces where people can live, work, and play. This production was special to us because it gave us an opportunity to highlight a growing part of our hometown. We love showcasing our local community!

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Virginia Dees-Boyd
Perigold

Earlier this year, we worked with Perigold, a design-focused subsidiary of the furniture company Wayfair, on our biggest retouching project to date. In one month, our stable of retouchers perfected 173 unique images for their Spring 2022 catalog!

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Lindsey Warren
Frigidaire

Frigidaire’s top-of-the-line refrigerators, washing machines, and other appliances have made home life run more smoothly since the company was founded in the 1910s. As devoted fans of a frosty beverage and a clean load of laundry, we were thrilled when Cowboy was tapped by D.C. based photographer and director Eli Meir Kaplan to produce a lifestyle photo and video shoot for them!

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Virginia Dees-Boyd
Spring 2022 Update // COVID-19 Production Protocol

Though we’re looking forward to “returning to normal” as much as anyone, our commitment to keeping our clients and crew safe is our top priority. Therefore, we’re still running a pretty tight ship when it comes to COVID-19. Our protocols maximize collective safety, direct our interactions with each other on set, and provide the peace of mind we need in order to create our best work.

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Healthcare Advertising

For this conceptual healthcare campaign, we composited several on-location photographs with “bear traps” created by a CGI artist. Click through to see our before & afters!

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Lindsey Warren
COVID-19 Production Protocol

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, every industry is faced with an urgent question: how can we adapt? On-set production is no exception. Here at Cowboy, we’re preparing to jump back into the saddle when it comes to wrangling a shoot —but we’re committed to keeping our clients, crew, and all support staff as safe and healthy as we possibly can.

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Black Lives Matter

A note about where we stand: In May and June 2020, our team, along with many people across the world, collectively began to face the recent police murders of Black people including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Elijah McClain, and David McAtee.

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Natalia Weedy