First Gig

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.

Beginning My Journey To Marketing...

Here's the setup I got so far.

Today's blog is about the beginnings of me learning to shoot
film. I'm doing this because I am currently enrolled in the Business Marketing
program at Humber College. As every marketer should know, the marketing mix
consists of 4 elements. Those 4 elements are Price, Product, Place, and
Promotion. Now, the last one, promotion, is the one aspect of the mix that I
want to concentrate on for now. I would like to learn and acquire the ability
to shoot and edit my own videos, and to learn how to take good photos so I can
make my own advertisements so that I can also provide these services that require
these skills when I begin my career after college. The first thing I did was
research how to take good pictures, and which camera would be a good one to
take them. The camera that came up a lot was the Canon EOS 7D. People were
saying that its one of the best cameras and that they are also used to shoot
commercials. Now the key word "commercials" came up and now I got my
target. So I saved up, and went out and got me a 7D. Next I needed a tripod to
better stabilize my shots. Luckily, there was one on sale over at The Source,
so I picked that up. Now I have my camera and my tripod, I learned some of the
major functions of the camera through Youtube and the manual, and now I'm ready
to get shooting some videos, but all I need is an idea on what to shoot and
lessons on how to shoot good videos. I'm going to call my friend, Kellz, who
has his own production company going called Don Entertainment, and ask him if
he would be willing to coach me and tag along on my journey to becoming a
better marketer by teaching me what goes into film making and editing.
Hopefully I get the answer I'm looking for. If I have professional help, it
would be a lot easier to learn and refine my video making skills. Or in other
words, sharpen my pixels... Aahh? Aahh? See what I did there? I put the title
in the... Ahh forget it. Anyways, let's keep our fingers crossed.