After a few unsuccessful tries at getting my Merlin/7D/Zeiss 12 combo balanced, I went out to visit the. experts at Steadycam USA in Glendale. Incredibly helpful nice folks out there. Dan spent an hour and a half with me. He balanced the rig in 5 minutes, then gave me a tutorial on how to move [...]
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ND filters
Before this current trip to Asia, I tested a number of ND filters with my Minolta Color Meter. I have 2,3,6,10 stop glass multi coated B+W neutral density filters in 58 and 78 mm sizes. I have step up/ down rings to 72, 67 and 55mm, which covers most of my lenses. For my beloved [...]
Asia lens bag
Here is a list of the glass that I have on this Asia trip. Zeiss 21 2.8: the sharpest lens I have ever used. Extraordinary ability to hold shadow detail when back lit flared. I use it on the 7D for action shots. Light years sharper than the Canon wide zooms. Love the Zeiss look [...]
Winner of the Living Art contest
I just learned that MOVING PHOTOGRAPH was the winner of the Living Art contest. A huge thanks to Alexx Henry, first for having the generosity to a hold a contest, and then for picking me. I am honored. Hearing Alexx and the other speakers at the Collision Conference changed the direction of my career. I [...]
Rescued Fighting Dogs, Time Magazine
The edit was done in Final Cut. By stacking the clips in the time line one on top of each other, and then using the Motion tab-Crop and animating it with key frames, I was able to get more than one dog in the frame. The time line ended up looking like a huge V, [...]
HOW TO: Rescued Fighting Dogs Stills, Time Magazine
This was one of the best feeling jobs I have done in years. Time Magazine was great about giving me all the support I could ask for. Feel great about the results, feel great about the dogs, feel great about the people I was working with. Here is the story of how these pictures came [...]
Apple Tablet for Sports Illustrated
I was told about this a month ago at a meeting at Time Inc and now I can publish it. Expect Conde Nast to make a similar interface for all their magazines. This is why if you are a photographer and you are not doing motion, you are on the soon to be extinct list. [...]
Moving Photograph
The idea here was sort of a play on words, how moving can I make a photograph? I hired an actress who could cry on command, which is a talent that absolutely mystifies me. I wanted her to go through a range of emotion from happy to sad, but for reasons that became clear once [...]
Selling shovels to gold miners
For some time I have been feeling queasy about the sort of photographer and film makers who “review” equipment, and then have it listed for sale on their web site. Or, are asked to speak, for a fee, at a conference where they “talk about their work flow”, and specifically how a certain brand of [...]
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.
