Welcome to B&H creators green room. And just like a real green room, we're here to spill the tea with some of our favorite creators.

When I think photographer and creator, the only one person that honestly comes to my mind is Brandon Wolfel. So I'm so excited to have you on today. Hi, Brandon.

Hey, what's up? How are we doing? Good, good. Honestly, I want to one thank you for your time and for doing this because you've long been a part of the B&H creator community. So I couldn't do this podcast without you. So thank you. Oh, thank you. Of course. No, I'm super excited to be here today. Yeah. So let's tell the audience, I guess when we first like met, I think it was like we did an icon activation and you led a workshop last year.

Yes. Yes. So, yeah, I guess I could start with like just a little background of me. I am Brandon. I'm 30 years old. And I grew up on Long Island, New York, and now I live in Brooklyn, New York, which

is how we got connected because we're both in New York City. And I have a sort of long-term

relationship with Nikon, which is really cool. So yeah, we came together back in the fall to host

a workshop with two other creators where we each had our own little stations

and people could come through and we kind of got to teach them a little bit about composition

and lighting and I think there was also like some slow-mo tips in there as well so it was just

like a super fun night to kick off I feel like just a year of fun photography for everyone.

Yeah. And honestly, like, that's really what the B&H creator events aim to do.

Like, bring that core audience together with education as like the backbone of it.

So the fact that you were teaching portrait style and the fact that

we had Amari there doing a composition and yeah, we had a trampoline, I think, which broke

way too early into the evening. But it was supposed to be to get kind of like slow motion video

clips. Yes, exactly. Yeah, yeah, so fun. Thank you again for doing that. And we love the Nikon team.

So I think it was a huge hit. Yeah. So take me back, take me back to the beginning, because a lot of the listeners are probably early career starting creators, like folks who maybe have launched their channels, but really are looking for ways to level up and grow. And I really, I don't want to like gas you up. That's not the point of this. But like you're such the goat. Like everyone at B&H follows you. I think you're like the epitome of like, how do I take photography and like, and couple it with social media. And I think you kill it every single time. So yeah, how did this start? How did you become a photographer?

Yeah. So I always started like this. Like I photography was sort of like the last medium.

I sort of touched. Like I was always into art growing up. I was taking like drawing classes,

painting classes, like ceramics. I was like doing everything

related to art that I could, especially like in high school. I was like super into it. And I kind

of always thought that like photography was like the easy way out in a way because I was like,

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