Hi there my name is Derrick Ropp I was born and raised in northern part of Indiana, I’m 23 years old and have a passion of telling stories through film, generally love stories but I also enjoy telling any type of story through a film. I was raised by two loving parents along side of one older brother two younger brothers and two younger sisters. I got married to girl friend of six years in October of 23, it was one of the best days ever, we got to take our dream honeymoon to Bali and let me tell you that was amazing. We have two dogs the oldest is a Bernece named Bear and he’s almost 3, our other is a long haired dachshund named Boog and he’s only around six months, these two boys are more then just dogs to me. A few of my hobbies are definitely football, basketball and wakeboarding. Wakeboarding is the reason I picked up my first camera! Just a few friends that I decided to film having tons of fun and that started the process of where I am today, and I couldn’t be more grateful.
My personal Life
Our little Fam
My Camera Journey
I picked up my first camera in early 2022 it was a lumix GH4. Me and a few of my friends did a lot of wakeboarding back then and started to get pretty good so I decided to get a camera just to film it and maybe get a few cool flicks. That whole summer came and went and one of my good buddies saw some of these clips and asked if I would be interested in filming his wedding. Me not knowing what this consists of said yea sure I’ll do it for free. So late October the day after we won a championship in football I made an hour drive to Michigan that morning to shoot my first wedding with 2 kit lenses 2 batteries 1 SD card and a shotgun mic. Wow I sound insane just saying that, but anyways some of there friends saw there wedding film and loved it and wanted me to do theirs and I found enjoyment in doing the first one so I decided why not do it and make a few bucks while I do it, So I made a Instagram page known as Ropps Media and then shot that wedding early 2023 and I did a few little shoots for friends in between there as well, then that one led to one more here and one more there and then in June of 23 we did our first wedding where we did both film and photos witch was quite nerve racking, but it turned out good and I ended up being quite busy with both photos and film by the end of 2023. Come late 2023 I just felt this ick every time I edited a photo gallery and I just felt like something was missing from them. Well few weeks go by and I finally figured it out, its not because there bad photos or that I don’t know how to do them or not that I don’t like to do them. It’s because I can’t tell a story though my images like I can through a film and I found out that’s what I really enjoy doing is telling that story. So that brings me to the beginning of 2024 where I rebuilt my website to talk about and focus a little bit more on the wedding film side of the industry. I feel so unbelievably blessed to have come this far in my journey and hope to continue to grow in the industry and continue doing my best possible work and also continue to make new friends along the way.
This is the video I made for my socials explaining a little bit about why I wanna do more films.