Together lets make your vision a reality
Together lets make your vision a reality
Jaime Martinez Jr.
(JaimeGFX)
I’ve always been into Graphic Design. As a student, I remember my parents putting me in computer classes as early as middle school that taught me how to use photoshop. In my teen years, I got into music and made my first little job as creating logos, shirt designs, and album art for local bands that we would play with. While playing gigs a lot of bands would approach us asking who designed our (I’m really gonna show my age here lol) Myspace, logo, and shirt designs. Which led to offering services of editing band photos with a more grungy style. Eventually, I decided if I’m already editing the photos why not learn to take them myself? So I was fortunate enough to have a family friend let me use their DSLR when they didn’t need it and started offering “band photoshoots” at our shows. I would just take the bands we played with and take them out back to the alley of the venue we were playing at and take pictures of the groups. I did that til I could afford my very own camera a crop sensor Canon t2i with a 50mm 1.4 and an 85mm 1.8, and pretty much started my business I still own it too lol. Eventually, I started to play with the video features my camera had to offer and started editing videos for my band til I eventually had an ex-bandmate reach out and ask if I would shoot their music video for them. To this day, I’m still very proud of that music video, it’s far from my best work, but it was so much fun shooting and editing, and all the hands that put in the work to accomplish it really solidified that THIS was what I wanted to do with my life. My parents must have realized I was serious about this endeavor and helped me get my First Professional DSLR which was the brand-new model at the time, the 5D MkIII that really launched my “professional services”. I’ve since then gone on to shooting a pilot episode in Canada for some of the cast of Degrassi, a Reality TV Car Show in the Inland Empire for Amazon Video, and Shooting on top of almost every Sky Scraper in Downtown San Diego for my clients in the area. I don’t really do music videos anymore (I’d love to do them again), but I focus on Marketing and Brand development for companies with photo and video through social media. Starting out as a musician and an unsigned artist, you really had to learn how to market yourself professionally on top of creating niche branding for yourself to stand out, and I feel that skill set carried over very well with what I do now.
We specialize in Photography, Video & Audio Production as well Drone services, graphic and web design. I hope to soon be setting up a production rental service, I have so much gear now I figure it can be put to use by others as well. Photography was really what started it all for me, but I really love cinematography and filmmaking and try to focus mostly on that these days I really enjoy product photography/Video. Showcasing products like gear, equipment, vehicles and even food is probably what I’m most known for if you browse my personal feed, I’ve been fortunate to have brands I absolutely love reach out to me to use my work for their website, social media, and marketing materials. I think what sets me apart from most is I don’t see others in the same industry as me as competition. If someone does something better than me, I don’t have too much pride to literally approach them and ask for knowledge on how they go about doing that and getting that look and collaborating to learn from them in person and vice versa, you can ask anyone that knows me I am an open book! I LOVE to help people and educate them if I know how. My entire TikTok is dedicated to teaching up-and-coming photographers and videographers tips and tricks of the trade to make things easier on them, A lot of people believe in reading books to learn decades of information I believe a more modern version of that I love to explain to people on the internet how to avoid all the costly mistakes I’ve made in my career to catapult them directly to being successful. When creatives thrive, art wins