0:00 a shot with black dry and I threw a makeup artist and then I got Angela Simmons and Yo Gotti through a clothing stylist good names man you don't ask for autographs you don't ask for a feature I would have used hey here's my mixtape hey you listen to the hip-hop what [Music] welcome back to another episode of careful boys this is a continuation episode uh where Joseph was telling us about his time in the military service specifically the US Marines uh 10 years in the service what made you decide that 10 was seven surgeries yeah he hit it right on what is it what oh it's 7 30 really seven surgery that's what the uh
0:51 that's the reason why you're like this s███'s beat me up yeah I actually had a talk with my dad and uh he was like man you gotta think about your shelf life so uh that's kind of one of the big factors and uh photography kind of like had fell in my lap during the time like right as I was about to get out I was kind of just getting good with photography and stuff like that so uh when I got promoted to staff sergeant and they moved me to North Carolina that's where I kind of like started my whole like photography Venture I was traveling like three hours just to do a free photo shoot so I can like build my skills out and stuff like that and then I met my best friend Trevor he's uh the one that took me in and was like yo if you ever need a place to stay while you're in Wilmington like you just stay at my house and then so on the weekend she let
1:42 me I'd go over there on Fridays he let me stay at his house from Friday to Sunday and then I'd come back instead of just driving every single day yeah freaking three hours just to go do a shoot so and you got uh how did you get so good at photography was it just on your own just trying oh yeah YouTube University so uh military pay for that one too long yeah yeah they do they I feel like they pay for everything now they just throw money at you you know I'm trying to I'm signing up I shut up bro I'm trying to get on those uh you see those Instagram ads where it says like oh if you've Drank In The Water from Camp Lejeune and stuff like that like payouts or something are those like Clash action lawsuits or something uh I think I think they are like I had a lady actually call me she was like hey um I hear that you're in
2:33 the military are you um yeah are you inquiring about you know such and such and I was like uh yeah I had called about it but I didn't think I was you know eligible for anything like that and then so they ran like my history and they're like oh it's only for like these this date and this date so like yeah if you're at the base from like this date to this day and you were doing this they've been thinking that's cool I don't want people to call me to tell me that they want to give me money I know I wish I was on that list yeah without any of the complications from whatever I drank exactly I don't want that I don't want that yeah I want money I got seven dollars from Toyota from a class action lawsuit it just showed up in the mail his airbags or what I don't
3:24 know it was like a recall but I never seven dollars I'm still waiting for Kia oh wow um they say you can get up to like 6200 and you best believe I'm gonna come for that 6200. you could probably get the full amount yeah that's a lot yeah yeah yeah if they if they hit you up and was like hey you want to be a brand ambassador would you do it for like tons of money yeah if I can crash the car and you have to agree to say that the whole story was fake the store was fabricated it didn't happen I just misplaced my keys I crashed every car into this wall real quick then we have a fun deal oh man I thought you liked money so every single time barter counts his like experience in the do you know what BART
4:14 is yeah we were talking about him okay um every time he recounts his stories about the military he always has to talk about how many like Dixie's seen yeah he saw a lot of dick so what kind of stories you got dude so what you got three SD cards you have how many Fortress have you done yeah I mean I feel like the grunts is probably a lot worse like if you're a grunt you probably see a lot of swinging dicks what is a girl to get you mentioned that twice now and I tried to pretend like I knew what that was the first bro we know what grunts are then yeah well we know Joe's asking he's from Japan so he doesn't know a bunch of our terminology is basically the Infantry part of it yeah gotcha oh you got that yeah can we move on please
5:05 stop holding up this conversation there's like different different um like uh I guess like Grunts and different sections they all have different personalities yeah like we have a thing going between like you have the grunts and then they call us Pogues Pogues Personnel other than grunts oh ████ he's about a pretty big like those are really heavy that's tight what else what else is there it's just those two fronts and posts oh crunching Pogues so then it's what's what's in The Pogues crew like the supplies.com you have you know you have the cooks you know yeah Essentials so so the the they're not what do you say
5:57 was Bart com because he said he had to just keep calling this number and to make sure it worked yeah he was a guarding he was guarding like graveyards or something he would just be like hello yes the phone works but he never said he was a Pogue yeah all right we're gonna we're gonna surprise him on that yeah I don't think bar was in the military dude I'm starting to question his stories I've never heard him mention Pogues at all I never heard that either so at the how did you transition to becoming a photographer because if you're you're doing it um mainly as a hobby how did you know that you wanted that to be your thing uh because I was just spending so much time on it like every single like second that I had that I was away from the military was totally
6:47 focused on photography but you weren't doing it prior to military at all no not at all wow are you the leaves kind of photographer or like product or butt cheeks kind yeah like when they drizzle leaves so uh I've actually done like I try to do like every single aspect of Photography so I've done the leaves stuff you know um and especially in La when I first got here it was just all like butt stuff but stuff sexual stuff lingerie it was that stuff you know just to try and build up yeah just everything kind of like how all the filmmakers do either student stuff or uh wedding stuff yeah
7:37 they all do wedding stuff oof never got into that one yeah I don't really like what it is I almost actually lost the wedding ring on one of my photos I had a little crazy you lost it probably one of the worst photo shoots I've ever had in my life like because no I almost lost oh God so it say that you lost it yeah I had a photo shoot in North Carolina right one of my uh old Master Gunnery sergeants very high up in the military um he had called me out to go shoot his wedding and I was like yeah yeah I'll do it so it flew me from you know California North Carolina stayed at my friend's house um and I had to drive out to this place in North Carolina on the beach to shoot the wedding well I didn't have a vehicle so I took my my boy's bike to have a motorcycle license
8:27 um so I knew exactly where the place was put it in on my phone put the phone on the little holder for the motorcycle I'm taking off got my headset on my airpods I'm driving next thing you know my music cuts off and I'm like wait what the oh no I looked down on my phone fell off on the highway so now I'm like damn I don't even know how to you know I don't have directions to the location of the wedding anymore I'm about to be late now so I Circle back I'm trying to look for my phone I don't find my phone the only thing I remember is the the my master gardener started saying that they're having a wedding on the beach it was at the wedding yeah there's a wedding photo shoot I thought
9:18 it was like a wedding so I didn't know I didn't know how to get there so I just knew the general area of where it was so then I started driving started driving and then uh I pulled over at this gas station I was like hey do you know where a Swansboro is can you direct me that way and they're like yeah if you just keep going straight over the bridge you'll hit Swansboro so I started driving over to Swansboro get into there and I'm looking for I go towards the beach and I'm looking for like houses on the beach well I end up finding like this little like Cottage type Hotel deal I end up walking in and this lady was on the phone and she was just like oh just wait a second okay okay so I ended up waiting she got off the phone she comes over and say hello can I help you I'm like yeah yeah I ended up losing my phone I need to shoot a wedding I know it's within this area is there any
10:09 weddings that are shot on the beach over here and they're like oh yeah there's a there's actually a wedding uh venue place over here she's like yeah there's like five of them so I ended up heading to that venue spot and it just so happened to be the exact place I was going to shoot so I was like yes freaking now I'm about to have a great day got here on time you know I don't give a ████ about my phone right now oh wow so then uh I take the Rings and you know I'm gonna go around and go shoot on the beach with the Rings so then I take them out to the beach in the sand then I put them on the like the table shooting up I put it on this little wooden log I'm starting to shoot them and then starting to walk back to uh without the ring I'm starting to walk back to go
11:01 give them the Rings and uh I bumped the table and the bride's wedding ring falls in the sand and I could not find it whatsoever could not find yourself I'm sitting here like trying to fish through the thing and now the wedding rings yes that's how I lost my like magnetic Beach finders quickly please help oh my God so now so I'm sitting here like digging digging digging trying to find this uh this ring right and I'm like ████ bricks right now but it's my old Master gonna start I know how crazy he is too so like I don't want to piss him off and then so uh I don't even tell them that I lost the Rings I go up to uh the owner of the the
11:51 beach house that we were at and I was like ma'am I it does this happen at all I was like I just lost the legend he's in the sand and she's like okay don't panic this does happen as long as you know the general area like will be fine and I was like all right so we ended up going out there and she's like okay where did you exactly drop it at and I was like I dropped it within like this little area it has to be over here and she's like okay calm down she's like when you go into the sand make sure you you come at an angle and just rise up like slowly he's probably like going like this and it's bearing her further mistake been there done that yeah yeah so we just kept doing that kept doing that and then she's the one that pulled it out of the sand
12:43 five I would have walked into please never come out holy ████ yeah and then you know we never talked about it they don't even know about it nothing like that and this allegedly happened we don't know if this is not a real story this is a this is a fun fake story hey that'd be excited if you found a better rig he's like damn damn but just imagine though like I'm sitting here shooting your wedding and I lose the bride's wedding rings like oh man so they didn't know that you almost could have missed the whole thing and you almost could have ruined the whole thing yeah [Laughter]
13:33 was that the first wedding you shot that was the first wedding I shot without my younger brother because my younger brother he does video too and uh I normally would just only shoot with him and that was the first time I did it by myself and that was the last time is your younger brother the one that always makes sure that things don't get lost yeah he's actually pretty good at that that's a skill set yeah afterwards did you go back to the highway and try to find your phone so my phone I drove the motorcycle back to uh my friend's house and uh he was like sleeping and then I took his phone and then used to find my iPhone and found it in the middle of the road yeah so it's not a really lucky day bro yeah yeah nothing but Matt that's awesome that's awesome bro holy ████
14:24 holy ████ man that's my wedding story unlucky lucky guy yeah that's such it honestly that's the best call to be like find a person who maybe has done this before at a wedding where the ring is lost and then ask them what to do like that such you know it's she owns the beach house she hosts weddings there so yeah right right you know like nobody's gonna handle that better than her yeah you asking for directions for the beach is another ████ thing that most people wouldn't do exactly oh the lady actually printed me out like directions from MapQuest dude oh I was gonna say MapQuest is a joke but yeah it turned out to be my glasses she typed in Ask Jeeves first
15:21 you're like damn dude that's nice man and then when did you get into doing like the photography that you do like now like professional like all these like because I looked up his it's actually really ████ good yeah so is he like the landscape with the waterfall kind or the bikini car I mean he's the full car polio kind oh that's cool like high fashion yeah like it's not a they saying a guy that's doing a hobby it's good good that's actually good who are some uh like clients that you're proud of having shot um uh Dua Lipa was pretty cool um shot Little Kim uh um Yo Gotti Angela Simmons they've been like really good really good clients and
16:13 very consistent with them um I've shot with a Blac Chyna Jeffree Star was very dope every time he says this we should get the actual photos that he did it'll pop up yeah that'd be cool it's just photos from other photographers It's gotta be his photos that he did every time he says this is just another wedding ring no so um let's tie that yeah I got into that by uh like once I found out I was gonna be um moving out here I just hit up every single model that I can find it was like hey can we shoot can we shoot can we shoot can we shoot that's how you do it she was one of my La stops that I ended up uh doing uh first person I met out here in LA and then I saw his work before it was where it's at now that was
17:03 said you did you ever post the photos that he took of you yeah oh yeah was it the butt stuff it was the butt stuff yeah the butt stuff every JK fan is like where's the butt stuff Colleen will send you a link yeah but there's gonna be a paper well don't worry we'll put photos up here guess what it's gonna be my buttons you keep swiping you're like oh I'm almost there and it's Nick and you're like ah some people will like that better true no it's not a joke on me dude it's not a joke on me that's tight though those are some really good uh clients man that's dope yeah I feel like uh so yeah after like
17:55 getting in touch with all models I figured out like models weren't the way to go um really why is that the models that kind of want to like kind of hold you for themselves sometimes or you don't get because your photos are so good that they love you yeah they also don't want you to work with other people they're competing with right is it because of the the your style they want that to match theirs and then they don't want other people to have your style and models are gonna get hired off of good photos too it's a representation of their work as well right so if they find a good photographer they're going to want to keep them but I feel like the the hidden gems are the live within the America the makeup artist the hairstylist and The Stylist all my biggest jobs have come from well because
18:45 they'll recommend yeah I got Jeffree Star through a hair stylist I got uh a shot with black Gina through a makeup artist and then I got Angela Simmons and Yo Gotti through uh clothing stylist that's cool people looking out man there's some big ████ names man that means you must be really good to work with yeah seriously yeah definitely like to give like you know try to stay as professional as possible you don't ask for autographs yeah yeah you don't ask for a future yo got it I'm doing this on the side but hey you listen to hip-hop he's like what [Laughter] you might respect that angle holy ████ in the middle of
19:37 shooting hey you look like someone else likes rap or you're like hey this photo will be better with some headphones [Laughter] dude I'll just put something on for Ambiance oh ████ this song's pretty good don't you think you can't use it the Marines holy ████ it's kind of a cool flow don't story whoever this is I'm just gonna put on the music for some moods you know we're good at expanding business of something you want to try out just try it out yeah to see what the feedback suggestions here at JK news and that's your so like in photography you've done so much already with something that you haven't done yet in photography that is like one of your goals [Music] um probably just owning my own Studio
20:29 I feel like um like right now uh one of my friends um he owns uh 50 503 um Studios it's uh uh he owns like multiple Studios that like in downtown downtown L.A Orange County and stuff like that um so he lets me shoot in like those locations when I just want to create so very thankful to have him um and then my clients wherever they get Studios and stuff like that but that's probably the only thing it's just probably just owning a studio for myself the way I want and stuff like that oh yeah um and then uh probably just pick up more sponsorships nice what's your dream uh company that you want to grab as a sponsor Sony yeah you're so free you can't wear gears uh I got Westcott uh oh nice uh I was able to
21:22 get sponsored by them uh all your lights are covered then that's cool yeah nice much I covered a very good customer service um I got them through shooting the uh George Floyd uh protest oh yeah I saw that on your page yeah I went out there shot a whole bunch of like black and white photos and uh they really enjoyed that and that kind of like slowly to fight everything from nice how about an aperture one amateur the sponsor um I mean I wouldn't I wouldn't mind I do love what Scott when it comes to lighting though all right Avatar leans a little more video oh how about Ross yeah what about right Dress for Less [Laughter] what's your stance on their spots love your guys's socks what if that's a conflict with Sony somehow
22:15 they're like hey you can work with Canon but not Ross so are you ████ gonna be Ross if you guys want to check out Joseph's photography the link is going to be in the info below so yeah please go support it's it's really amazing photography and also if you want to get to know more as a person DM him and then a hit on him and stuff hit on him okay are you single are you single by the way uh right now yes I am ladies blow it up yeah below go check out the leaves waterfalls cars butts foreign
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