We were lucky to catch up with Andrew Vogt recently and have shared our conversation below.
Andrew, appreciate you joining us today. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.
Mostly self-taught by always shooting as much as I can (which leads to a significant amount of happy accidents to learn from), had a couple people show me intial fundamental settings like the exposure triangle framing etc, going to photography meet ups, always mixing it up by shooting in different scenarios, locations, etc, and learned online vicariously through a ton people. If I get stuck on something I google it.
Sometimes slower is faster, and one thing I could’ve done differently is slow down a little, and really let things sink in more. At the same time, I’m happy I didn’t do that though, since it did lead to soem really cool opportunities, since I kept showing up.
The most essential skills for photography: coming up with ideas, composition, framing love good foregorund blur, and having lots of depth, and lighting. Heavy emphasis on the fundamentals
The most essential skills for videography:
Storytelling, pacing of an edit, pre production, composition, framing, and lighting. Knowing how to grade log, and learning about the tmw method has been really helpful too
The technical skills are way easier for me to comprehend than, the soft skills and business side skills, but with practice it’s gotten better.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
I got a camera in 2019 on a whim, and found out I had natural ability for it, and love doing it, so I figured why not pursue it.
I provide high-quality photos and videos specialied to individuals and businesses specific needs, different people need different things, so I consult on figuring out exactly what you need.
Definitely proud of the growth of my work, and being able to create a plethora of concepts with several amazing people in the process.
We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?
Definitely had to unlearn how to manage my workflow especially when the amount of shoots started increasing.
Managing workflow is definitely crucial, and changes with you as you change, so you have to adapt to it.
What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?
The opportunity to connect with different people, and create something really awesome in the process is always a win-win. I’d rather win less, so the people around me can win too.
All the awesome people I get to meet and work with makes it all worth it.
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Image Credits
Jared Wolfe
Melicity
Brookelle Bombshelle
Charisma Davis
Porcupine Por
Jake Karamol
Sarah Sincero
Jordi Pla