Here are a coupe of ways we use the Marshall. Sometimes I mount on the camera, in this case Robert clamped it onto the slider mount and I am using it to judge the speed of the tracking motion. I often use a Zacuto finder, but find with these sort of situations the Marshall works [...]
Archive | October, 2009
Boise, ID, workin the TMP ballet
Here is a first edit of some of last weeks work with the Trey McIntyre Project, a dance company that I have worked with in the past. The brief was to continue the existing brand space and to improve it. I did light tests with my assistant for a couple of days before we headed [...]
Electro Gremlins
I am not entirely sure what to make of this, but it was an exceptionally bad week for the world of the electron over here at studio DHS. Saturday, a visiting art director accidentally smashes a 500 gig spinning Iomega HD to the floor. Wrecked. Tuesday my never failing super designed Glyph crooked. Weds, one [...]
Z-Finder
This little device is what has made using the 5DII as a movie camera possible for me. How Vince and the other pioneers were working without it astonishes me. Not only is the 3X magnifier a juicy view of the LCD, but it also helps me stabalize the camera by having a solid point of [...]
Fotocare
I have found that I need a partner on the equipment side who really knows what they are doing, a guy to equipment problem solve for me. For me that person is Jeff at Fotocare. Even though I am in LA most of the time these days, I would rather call Jeff in NYC, go [...]
About
David Harry Stewart is a photographer and director. He comes from a small town in western New York. He started taking pictures at the age of 8, first with a plastic Kodak 126, then a Polaroid Swinger. He did his first national ad campaign at age 23, then moved on to Paris to work for fashion magazines. Returning to New York he has a successful and award winning career, working for magazines like Interview, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, New York Magazine, Time and The New York Times Magazine. Agency work includes Saatchi, Deutsch, BBDO, Leo Burnett, and Ogilivy, for clients such as American Express, Nike, Coke, Corona and Bank of America. Awards include Communication Arts, The Art Directors Club, Photo District News, The Living Photograph Motion Awards, and American Photography. He splits his time between Los Angeles and New York.
