-If you are working in a pool, and you want to be underwater, you need to weight yourself, otherwise you are going to float like a cork. After flayling about under water trying to get the angle I wanted, swimming with one hand while working the camera with the other hand, my producer got me [...]
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A new pair of glasses
My closeup vision is a bit challenged in low light, and I although I have 20/30 vision for distance, wouldn’t it be great to be able to have perfect distance vision while at the same time being able to read the fine print. Hello new sporty Tom Ford glasses. People have been commenting on how [...]
Dodgeball-4-Ever
What: Adult Dodgeball, Where: Various neighborhood rec centers around the east side of LA Why: I take photos for the fun of it, sometimes I get paid. How: Flash on camera, combined with a key light coming from the back or side. My assistant is on the far side of the gym going side to [...]
More on the future of Photo Editors
Essentially what we do as photographers, is we edit time and frame to compose a compelling image. What happens when the time element, that Cartier Bresson moment, is removed and that decision happens in editing? I remember working on a big ad job in the 80s talking with the CD about how they did their [...]
Super Batteries
Terry Richardson once said, if the picture is happening and you are not ready, you loose. Or as wonderful Otto Bell once said ” You have got to be in it to win it”. In other words, if you gear ain’t ready to shoot, you just lost a possibly great photo. I hate when that [...]
Adventures with iPhones
As you know, I have not been a fan of my iPhone 3GS on ATT. Cute fun toy, but not a reliable phone. This weekend I decided to take action, enough is enough. First I reviewed all the iPhone competitors. As much as my punk rock sensibility would like to ditch the ever present iPhone [...]
Location Apps
We flew in to NY weds on my favorite UA LAX-JFK flight (note, Charlotte Gainsbourg and posse in 1st class) for meetings and a quick editorial short. I love this town. There is nothing sexier than downtown Manhattan on a sunny day in May. Everybody is flirty, and everybody is dressed. Los Angeles is a [...]
Using the iPad with Capture One and Phocus
Each job we do, we learn something new, and this week’s 5 day Miami advertising job we used the iPad as a satellite viewing station for the first time. It worked fabulously. We used two camera systems, the Hassy H3D and the Canons. I know I dissed Canon last week, but is a good camera, [...]
Canon vs Nikon. In which I make chaos with my bank account.
Call it an itch, call it an irritation, but I am not feeling the love from my Canons these days. I am just really over it with the bad slow autofocus, the goofy plastic feeling bodies and the menus that must been designed by some dumb dumb washed out scientist. Sometimes we just need to [...]
High Speed Synch Light Test
70-200II f2.8, 1/1000. Byron hoping not to break his wheels when he lands this. 70-200II f2.8, 1/1000. Byron finishing a front flip out of the bowl, cigarette in hand. 24-70f2.8 at about 50mm, f5.6, 1/1000, speedlight on camera. Yes, shooting this is way scary. He is coming at me full speed then jumps maybe 3 [...]
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.
