Hybrid Media
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Photographer + Director of Photography —South Florida

You Dream It.We Capture It.

I'm Ariel — a South Florida photographer and director of photography, just as strong with a stills camera as on a cinema rig. Hybrid Media takes its name from the hybrid camera: a body built to be excellent at both stills and motion — exactly how I work. Photography runs to corporate events, award shows and sports; my video is rooted in feature storytelling and professionally produced interviews, backed by heavy live multi-camera and broadcast training.

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02 / APPROACHWhat I Don't Do
No short-form slop.

Real talk: short-form social slop doesn't convert. There's no soul in fast cuts, blaring sound effects and flashing emoji captions engineered to stop a doom-scroller for half a second. On a feed, you and I aren't the director — the algorithm is, and it rewards watch-time and trending audio over craft. Most reels are buried inside 48 hours, promoted or not.

And once the work is crushed into a blocky vertical clip, a $5K cinema build on real glass looks nearly the same as a phone to the untrained eye — which is how "why pay your rate when my intern has an iPhone?" becomes a question. I'm not torching years of learning light, color and movement to work for exposure and a burrito. Skill costs money.

I make work with intent — recaps, corporate overviews, profiles, feature stories, real interviews, documentaries and commercials, built with craft and purpose. Commercials especially: they're directed, they're creative, and they convert into sales. I'll happily shoot your event and make it genuinely cinematic — I just won't chop it into slop that doesn't represent me, then take the blame when the algorithm doesn't bless it. I'd rather make one thing people remember than fifty they scroll past.

03 / CAPABILITIESWhat I Do — tap to expand

Photo & video, end to end.

01PhotographyCorporate · Awards · Sports
Corporate events and conferences, award shows and red carpets, and fast-moving sports. Clean composition, proper lighting, and a quick, dependable edit — habits built shooting for CTV and the STN national news competition. I read a room fast and deliver galleries while the moment still matters.
02Film & StorytellingFeatures · Interviews · Commercials
Built on broadcast feature storytelling — the long-form, human side of news, not fifteen-second filler. Professionally lit and framed interviews, documentary-style pieces, and purpose-driven brand films and commercials that people actually finish and remember.
Cinema — Sony FX6 · FX3
03Live & BroadcastTechnical Director · Multi-Cam
Studio-trained live production. Technical directing on Ross Carbonite and TriCaster Mini, live multi-camera switching, robotic/PTZ camera control (Ross CamBot), Ross XPression and Inception graphics, live-show gimbal (DJI RS + wireless video) and CueScript teleprompter. I learned the live workflow hands-on at Miami Dade College and through Cooper City's CTV — weekly newscasts on real deadlines, scripted, shot, switched and cut.
04AerialFAA Part 107 · Insured
FAA Part 107 certified and insured. I fly a DJI Mavic 2 Pro for property and event aerials, with a strong eye for real-estate aerial photography and clean, complex camera movement on video — reveals, orbits and controlled tracking that ground level can't give you.
05Photo TurnaroundShoot · Edit · Push — Live
Where I'm genuinely different: photo turnaround. I shoot, cull and edit on the move and push finished images while the event is still happening.

Case in point — STN Nationals in Tampa (2025 & 2026), with Elite Marketing: as students competed and shot stories across the city, we captured and edited photos on the fly and pushed the creative straight to digital signage across Tampa Bay, so students would spot themselves on screens around town. At the award ceremonies the edits went out so fast that the wayfinder kiosks outside the venue updated in near real-time — winners walked out and posed in front of their own stage photo.

That speed is photo only. Video keeps standard post timelines — and if I'm not the editor, I'll offload footage on location on high-speed cards before I leave.
Adobe Certified Professional — Premiere Pro · After Effects · Photoshop
06Training & CredentialsMDC · FSU '27 · Adobe
2026A.S. — Radio & Television Broadcast ProgrammingMiami Dade College · graduated
2026C.C.C. — Television Studio ProductionMiami Dade College
Spring '26A.S. — FilmMiami Dade College · in progress
Fall '27Florida State University — Digital Media Productionadmission goal
2019–23Cooper City HS · CTVInvite-only, nationally recognized — STN national awards (2022 & 2023)
CertsAdobe Certified ProfessionalPremiere Pro · After Effects · Photoshop · Motion Graphics · Video Design
CertsVistar Media — DOOHFoundations of Digital Out-of-Home & Certified User
Bilingual · EN / ES FAA Part 107 · Insured Triple Citizenship · US · EU · CR Available Worldwide
04 / SELECTED CREDITSOn Set — tap to expand

Where I've been on the job.

01FIFA Club World Cup 2025Camera Operator · Miami
Selected by FIFA operations as a camera operator for the tournament's pre-event referee training matches in Miami — not the televised games at Hard Rock Stadium. From field positions and elevated scaffolding I captured the precise, stable footage referees used on the VAR system during the local-team training matches.
02Latin GRAMMY AwardsUnivision · Talent Escort · 2024
Talent-side, not camera: assigned to a performing artist through rehearsals, red carpet and stage as the liaison between talent and production, keeping a high-pressure live broadcast running smoothly backstage. Also staffed the official GRAMMY gift suite and venue credentialing.
03Premio Lo NuestroUnivision · Talent Escort · 37th & 38th
Assigned to on-camera talent, getting them to the backstage live-stream set, rehearsals and their marks on time across the venue throughout the live broadcast.
04Broward County GraduationsTechnical Director / Camera Op · 22–23
Across the 2022 and 2023 multi-school graduation livestreams I rotated by day between two separate roles: technical directing on the TriCaster (setup, cabling and cutting cues), and operating the on-air camera — including a Sony A7 IV on a gimbal with a wireless transmitter for smooth live movement.
05Telemundo AcademyMDC Academic Program · 2024
A four-month academic program (a class) through Miami Dade College with Telemundo Enterprises — direct, hands-on exposure to Telemundo's studios, workflows and broadcast production standards.
06Cooper City HS · CTV / STNOperations Manager · 2021–23
Invite-only, nationally award-winning news program. I led Episode #602 — the STN National Excellence Award winner — creating graphics, composing the anchor shots and shooting four news packages in a single week. Two-time national recognition at STN (2022 & 2023) for Weekly News Show and Excellence in News, plus Equipment & Operations Manager keeping the team on deadline.
05 / THE KITGear & Package

Owned, dialed-in, rentable.

The package I shoot on. Most of it is mine — which means you can book me with the gear instead of renting it separately. (Bodies I've also worked with are noted.)

CinemaSony FX6 · FX3 · A7 IV (+ experience: A7 III · Blackmagic URSA)
PhotoSony A7 IV (+ experience: A9 III · A7R IV · Nikon Z9 II · Canon R5)
LensesSigma 14–24 f/2.8 · Sony GM 24–70 f/2.8 · GM 70–200 f/2.8 · Tamron 70–180 f/2.8
AerialDJI Mavic 2 Pro (+ experience: Mavic 3 Pro Cine)
MovementDJI RS2 Pro · RS3 Pro · RS4 Pro (+ experience: wireless video / Teradek)
AudioRode NTG3 · DJI Mic 2
Broadcast — exp.Ross Carbonite · XPression · Inception · TriCaster Mini · Ross CamBot · BirdDog PTZ · Blackmagic switchers · CueScript

Need a DP with a kit? Hire me and the gear together — booked with me, the rental usually comes in under the ShareGrid rate.

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06 / PREMIERE ITVue Billboards · a company I co-own
Vue creative goes here drop a 4:3 (or 1:1) image — assets/vue-ad.jpg
Self-serve digital billboards

Be seen. Everywhere.

Good work deserves good marketing. Vue — the billboard platform I co-own — lets you pick screens, set a budget, upload creative and go live. No calls, no contracts. 80,000+ signs nationwide and growing internationally, and I personally build the creative that runs, so your campaign actually looks the part.

Rather have it handled end-to-end? Elite Marketing builds the whole campaign →

07 / CONTACTLet's Talk

Let's start the shoot.

Tell me what you're picturing — stills, motion, or both. It comes straight to my inbox. No bots, no middlemen.

Email
Usually a reply within a day.
Based in
Hollywood, FL
South Florida — Miami · Fort Lauderdale.
Availability
Bilingual · Travels worldwide
EN / ES · Triple citizenship (US · EU · CR).