Video Blog - The things I would tell the 16 year old younger me when first began photography. The few points Id share to help my photography career starting off . If your a photographer just starting out these are somethings Ive learned along the way that may help you.
I was hired to do cinematgraphy for the Libbey Glass Master’s Reserve series by RP Agency.
It has been a great experience working on these shoots/sets. Working with real actors and talent, to food styling, and also working along side commercial photographer Jim Rohman was an honor. We have shot each video at a different location, a casino, a downtown Detroit restaurant to a hotel. I love working with a group of creative people that you vibe with, and understand you as a person. It all seems to blend together and work smoothy. This is one of the bigger video projects that I have been apart of in my career. To be able to see what RP’s video editor did with the footage was amazing. This was also new to me to release my footage over to someone to edit, but the level of work that RP editor can put out is beyond my level…So sometimes you have to be able to let go of the levers for the greater good of the project. As a creative you can’t do it all, and in this project is was key to have each person focus on their strengths, and not over multitask.
From well planned out pre-pro meetings, to shottlist references, to call sheet shooting schedules this project was a huge success in my books, and is very helpful for a subcontractor on a job. Im looking forward to future gigs with RP in the future!
Links to videos :
Master’s Reserve - Renaissance
I recently have been inspired to start shooting in the moment types of images. I do a lot of commercial/advertising where I set up 3-4 lights and takes about an 1-2 hours to setup one shot. Taking these in the moment shots give you a different type of feeling. They have a lot of soul, feeling and emotion to them. Im forsure digging the timeless look of these, and can’t wait to keep expanding this black & white series of images on my site. I absolutey love setting up a ton of strobes and shooting that way, but this is nice to create an images in a different manner. This all came on because of watching www.photoschool.com and watching the videos of Arto Saari and Estevan oriole are their work.
I recently picked up a Fuji X100 camera to wear around my neck and take random snaps on the go. Its exciting to shoot the way I did when I first fell in love with photography.
This series was a night in Toledo, Ohio in the bike shop. My buddy Ken and Brian work on motorcycles their, and I wanted to stop out and grab some snaps of them while they were working. Brains son Liam was also there hanging out watching his old man.
- Nick
12.13.15
