In the design team we always were very eager to create beautiful NYE assets for content marketing. That’s what we wanted fireworks videos for but the Shutterstock prices for videos are so high that we never got the budget to buy some and so we had to stick to the JPG thing. Boring stuff again…

In the beginning of 2018 I started questioning the users’ benefits of the products I created content for and I came to the point that I could not do my job with a clear conscience anymore. I just want to create content and advertising for products I can commit to.

That’s the point where my profession turned from employee to solopreneur. I learned a lot of new stuff and half a year later I felt to have learned more than in the previous 6 years of employment. Just do the things you were hired for and don’t dare to know more than your line manager or get fired.

I bought myself a mirrorless camera, that produces highly professional 2160p videos with F-LOG gamma, 30fps encoded with 100mbps, a field recorder and the awesome DJI Mavic II Pro drone (UAV) to create videos on my own. In the end of may 2018 I captured the yearly fired Japanese fireworks for the first time and the image quality was so awesome that I started to improve the overall quality of my recordings at the three upcoming fireworks shows until August 2019.