OWC Creator

Jake Chamseddine

Who Am I? How Did I Get My Start. What Are My Interests?

A professional coffee drinker who focuses on documentary, editorial, & music photography/directing.

Specializations: Photography, Video, VFX, Animation, Creative Direction

Clients:

  • Green Day
  • Lorde
  • Panic! At The Disco
  • Sony
  • Adobe
  • Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Weezer
  • Fall Out Boy
  • Marshmello
  • Nike
  • Seattle Seahawks
  • Steve Aoki
  • UEFA Champions League

Features:

  • Rolling Stone Magazine
  • Billboard Magazine
  • Alternative Press Magazine
  • Variety Magazine
  • EDM.COM
  • iHeart Radio
  • Sony Alpha Collective

Field Gear

Workstation Gear

Tips, Tricks, and Gear

The biggest piece of advice I have, in regards to photography, is to not put yourself in a box. A lot of people are considered "portrait, landscape, or music photographers". I think that’s bullshit. Just get out there and do what YOU want to do. Make stuff you want to make, and it will resonate with the right people in time.

A drummer jumps high in the air while playing drums on stage, captured mid-performance with smoke and stage lights in the background.
A man stands on a stage with green lighting, silhouetted against a ceiling of beams and lights.

OWC Gear I Like

Personally my favorite product I use from OWC is the Envoy Pro FX drives. They are unbelievably fast, & super durable. Makes me feel safe to have my gear stored on them & fast enough to work directly off them!

Workflow

My workflow is pretty straight forward but can change a bit job to job. I typically shoot on Uncompressed Raw format directly to my OWC Atlas Pro Cards in camera. Upload cards to storage like my OWC Envoy Pro drive. Then I will use a program called Photo Mechanic to sort through and make selects. I then import those selects to Lightroom classic and do all my editing/exporting there. Sometimes I will take a second to touch photos up in Photoshop if I need to.

A man smiles while sitting on a rocky ledge at sunset, the warm golden light illuminating the landscape around him.