When the first ever iPhone launched in 2007, YouTube was still very 'young' and it was the first year of my professional photography career. A tutorial was not a thing back then and the closest thing to a behind the scenes of a professional shoot was probably from Chase Jarvis' YouTube channel, "Chase Jarvis RAW".
I figured this YouTube/video thing would be a great addition to my business. In 2012, I got a couple of Facebook friends to do some BTS videos of my shoot for a small amount of money. Mind you, the job that I take was not some big fancy advertisement campaigns and it was coming out of my personal pocket.
Coming from a stills background, creating motion pictures made no sense to me - technically or aesthetically. I have no idea what was the "correct shutter speed" to shoot at, I do not have any idea to construct a basic 3 act narrative; I was bad at story telling through motion pictures.
Throughout the years, I have watched countless of tutorials and other artworks from different filmmakers. I was trying to figure out how to construct the visuals from start to end.
It wasn't until 2018, when I gathered up enough courage to shoot, edit, and publish my own video. The buzzword of that time was "cinematic" and "travel", so that was what I shot.
Since then, I have been trying different styles of story telling. Travel, fashion, corporate interviews, event highlights, vlogs, tutorials, documentaries.
Moving forward, I am glad that I took the first step back in 2018 to step into an endless rabbit hole 😅
