The last post I talked about finding someone to help teach me a bit about photography and how I had a pretty good idea on who that person would be. Unfortunately, time moved a bit faster than I expected.
Last week, I was called to photograph the 12th annual Independant music awards... Pretty big task for me I must say, but I jumped at opportunity because I might not be so lucky to obtain an opportunity like that again. So the day of the event, I got my camera ready, cleared the memory on my 32 gb memory card and set off to the event. When I arrived I was given a media pass to get inside and the place was packed with talented local talent. When they performed, they shone on stage and made me proud to be a torontonian.
During the event, I set my camera on auto and started snapping photos of the artists. I got about 200 photos taken, some of them were terrible but most of them were pretty good. I'm personally really glad that I got to experience that because now that just makes me want to be better at it and I will soon enough.
The person that called me to action for the event was so happy with my work that she wants me to do another event for her next week. It almost seems like the minute I got this camera and began this blog that things are just being put in my path to entertain whoever is reading it. I'm now kind of anxious to see what happens next week.
This week was quite eventful. I finally met up with Kellz and we finally shot a video together. We then learned that an up and coming artist named Kool-Aid was interested in making a music video for himself just to see how it would turn out and was more than happy to be our guinea pig.
All three of us met up later on during the week to find areas that looked good enough to shoot. When we found one, we then decided to have a theme for the video. We chose to have him in the desert at first then in a forest in an army uniform. In the middle of shooting my camera ran out of battery juice, so we had to run and find a place to charge it back up to get a bit more shots in. We found a nearby apartment building and as someone was coming out I jolted in, found and outlet and put that bad boy in for about 10 minutes because the time we had was short. After that was finished, I bolted back to the scene and we continued from there and continued shooting until it died again. The shooting took only about two hours to do because we all had places to be at certain times, so we didn't get a lot of footage to play with for editing, but we did what we could.
After shooting, we went back to Kellz editing room and began editing, but unfotunately we ran out of time. But I didn't leave empty handed. I managed to sneak a picture on my phone of what we were doing. You guys can thank me later. :). Next week I should be meeting back with Kellz and we should have this thing finished. See you next week.
