Welcome to NWPhotoVideo.com!


UPDATE: NWPHOTOVIDEO LLC as of Wednesday October 2, 2024, partnering with Jimmy's World https://youtu.be/NdV21mBB8N4?si=yYVVhUBf-FpcC2AV on YouTube, and Wings of Compassion as well as my church to organize the largest relief effort ever seen for victims of Hurricane Helene. 

First of all, please take a second and click on this link and SUBSCRIBE to @UP-Close on Youtube and click the notify button so that you get the latest videos as they drop from the hurricane relief efforts.

As of now, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's FEMA have locked down and threatened to arrest ANY and ALL civilians who even attempt to aid in relief. WE WILL NOT COMPLY!! As an American and Journalist, we reserve our right to free speech and FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, and OUR SECOND AMENDMENT which PROTECTS OUR FIRST, to exercise these freedoms. We will not bow down, we will not stop.  Help is coming! The government is preventing media from going in and covering all that is going on. It's time to rise up. 

If you would like to donate to the relief efforts directly, you can do so directly to Wings of Compassion Link: https://wingsofcompassion.com/donate/

If you would like to donate to help fund OUR efforts here at NWPhotoVideo and @Up-Close and keep us going, you can do so by going to the https://paypal.me/nwphotovideo Link. Please make sure to put in the description what these donations are for. These donations for this link will go to cover the expenses for myself and my crew, fuel costs, batteries, hard drives, production costs, food, catering for the team, and for the other volunteers that will be with us at these sites.  


I will also be doing a GOFUNDME to raise money just to get us there. We will be doing several trips and I will be hiring contractors that are journalists as teams to cover all of the havoc.  

Any help you can give is huge. Please donate what you can! 







NWPhotoVideo is now preparing to renew our site with a fresh new look and design as we transition into our new larger model as a company and agency format for brand marketing and advertisement, film production, Drone Support and Drone Video Production (UAV), video production, Audio Visual and Corporate Events, and Social Media Marketing.  We will still as usual be involved in consumer photography and video production such as headshots, family portraits, Graduation, maternity and newborn packages, pet portraits, fashion and modeling, as well as event photography and video production. 

Do you have a homeschooler? Well, we are now announcing that we will be hosting homeschool photo sessions!!  If you are interested in these sessions, please don't hesitate to email us for information and dates, or go to "Book A Session" and the dates and times available will be listed. Every package comes with prints! And you can always upgrade your package to include acrylic, canvas, aluminum metal, or photo paper enlargements on premium paper from incredible labs that are guaranteed for years to come!

Our Brand Marketing will consist of a package that is tailored to each individual brand by our teams of creatives. 

We also specialize in multi-camera shoots and studio recording audio production, music video production, product and portrait photography, as well as landscape photography. 

We are also NOW HIRING for a large list of roles for 1099 contractors. Stay tuned for that list. 

Please forgive the dust and the current look as NWPhotoVideo will be getting a huge face lift. 

If you would like more information, please don't hesitate to go to the contact page and fill out the form. 

Each retainer package is custom to each and every single business based on your needs. 

Thanks for hanging in and supporting us! 

Please like and share our social media as we launch this company into the future. 


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ANNOUNCEMENT! NEW WEBSITE AND LAYOUT COMING SOON!!!

Thanks so much for taking the opportunity to learn about the owner. NWPhotoVideo LLC is proud to announce our transition into Brand Marketing and Advertising. Our website will be undergoing a lot of changes in the coming months to reflect our transition which also includes video documentaries, film production, ad campaign management, Social Media Management, advertisement, and event photography and video production.  

Nathan Waters began his journey into photography in Darkroom Photography in 1997 shooting on a 35mm Minolta which was stolen. He then switched to the Canon Rebel X, on ChodaKrome B&W film. It was here that he learned how to manually and blindly load film into a canister, develop the film, then use light image enlargers to project those images onto photo paper and develop them by dipping them into bucket trays of developer chemicals that would bring out the image, freeze the process, and then cure it. These are the fundamentals of photography that every person should experience before they ever dare to call themselves a photographer.

 

These are the very basics of photography which teach beyond camera functionality, but how to calculate the perfect exposure. After all, in the 35mm days, you couldn't just snap snap snap a photo every single time without it costing you precious time and crazy amounts of money spent on film that would either not come out at all, over expose, or under expose. And if you were shooting anything very important, having such a disaster happen would destroy your reputation. It was first taught here to "get it right in camera." 
 

Starting in 1997, Nathan studied and worked on everything from weddings, infant and newborn, kids, events, modeling, portrait, fashion, landscape, aerial, aviation, sports, commercial, product and other types of photography which has changed his way of seeing things into a freeze frame mindset that he can evaluate before it happens. Everywhere he looks, Nathan can see a portrait or candid memory to be captured and wishes so much he could just walk up and say "Can I photograph you or your children?" After all, that would be so super creepy. #BurdenofPhotographers

 

In 2012, Nathan graduated from Polk State College with an Associate of Arts Degree, and then returned to his home school at Southeastern University in Lakeland Florida to complete his Bachelor of Science Degree in May 2015, majoring in broadcasting and journalism with a film minor. He has worked on many student films, and a couple feature films and worked hand in hand with some of the greatest directors of photography he has ever met. This experience also helped him fill the gap in between photography and video/film production which is exactly the purpose of cinematography that he now finds himself working in.

With this new knowledge, he was given a whole new view and education to how light bends, shapes, and transforms. This has helped the photographer create new works of art through both natural and artificial lighting using studio strobes/speedlights, or reflectors to bounce and soften the light hitting the subject. 

 

 

In July of 2016, Nathan met the love of his life and proposed to her that Christmas of 2016. They were married later the following year August 2017 in her hometown of Jacksonville, Florida surrounded by  family and friends where he also now lives and calls home.  

 

A brand new chapter started on December 20, 2018 when Nathan & Alana welcomed their first child and daughter into the world. It has been a very time consuming but very rewarding and wonderful experience to date for them both and is shifting focus back to newborn and infant photography. 


And then almost 2 1/2 years later, they welcomed their second baby into the world and they all reside in River City, also known as Jacksonville Florida. 
 

Also, within the coming months, Nathan is looking at a new studio space in Downtown Jacksonville where he can host shoots, classes, tutorials, film projects, interviews, etc. 

 

From Nathan:

"This is my work. This is my dream. This is my passion. I want each client and those who view the images to see their photos it as if they are living it for the first time while standing inside the memory of the photo.

I want each interview and journalistic story that I tell through my film work to tell someone's story and give life to the story they tell.


Overall, I will return glory and credit to my creator as the only reason I am alive, and that is to bless Him back with what blessings He gave me. Thanks for your time! NOW LETS SHOOT!

~Nathan Waters